The Importance of and Relationship Between Admissions Criteria for Undergraduate Students and the Management of the Office of Admissions in Seventh-day Adventist Institutions of Higher Education
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description: Problem. The selection and admission of undergraduate students involves the admissions office in the responsibility of maintaining the delicate threefold balance of academic excellence and quality, institutional economic stability, and the provision of educational opportunity for all who wish to benefit by higher education. Obtaining the information necessary for the adequate and proper assessment of an applicant's eligibility for admission couples with attention to good management principles and practices in the office of admissions will strengthen and benefit the entire institution, and also enable the deserving student to obtain the education appropriate to his potential. It was the purpose of the study to analyze the evaluate the admissions criteria and the principles of management of the undergraduate admissions office in the colleges operate by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America. Method. The study involved the responses from a population of ninety-eight person involved in the admissions decision, and the responses from fifty-eight person employed in the admissions office. Two instruments were used. The first was designed to assess the relative importance awarded admissions criteria and requirements by admission officers and admissions committee members. The second determined the degree of adherence to accepted admissions office management principles by personal in the admissions office. They hypotheses projected in the study suggested four statistical procedures. The consistency of the responses, within an institution, was tested by an analysis of variance methodology to determine the reliability of the responses. The degree of importance awarded specific admissions criteria and the degree of adherence to specific statements of admissions office management principles were identified by the use of quartile values on all responses to a particular admissions criterion or management statement. Agreement between institutions on admissions criteria an…
abstract: Problem. The selection and admission of undergraduate students involves the admissions office in the responsibility of maintaining the delicate threefold balance of academic excellence and quality, institutional economic stability, and the provision of educational opportunity for all who wish to benefit by higher education. Obtaining the information necessary for the adequate and proper assessment of an applicant's eligibility for admission couples with attention to good management principles and practices in the office of admissions will strengthen and benefit the entire institution, and also enable the deserving student to obtain the education appropriate to his potential. It was the purpose of the study to analyze the evaluate the admissions criteria and the principles of management of the undergraduate admissions office in the colleges operate by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America. Method. The study involved the responses from a population of ninety-eight person involved in the admissions decision, and the responses from fifty-eight person employed in the admissions office. Two instruments were used. The first was designed to assess the relative importance awarded admissions criteria and requirements by admission officers and admissions committee members. The second determined the degree of adherence to accepted admissions office management principles by personal in the admissions office. They hypotheses projected in the study suggested four statistical procedures. The consistency of the responses, within an institution, was tested by an analysis of variance methodology to determine the reliability of the responses. The degree of importance awarded specific admissions criteria and the degree of adherence to specific statements of admissions office management principles were identified by the use of quartile values on all responses to a particular admissions criterion or management statement. Agreement between institutions on admissions criteria an…
author: Clifford, Gerald Francis
keywords: Education, Higher Education
date published: 1976-01-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:54:11Z
provider: Andrews University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Andrews University