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A survey of international practice in university admissions testing

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  • Daniel Edwards
  • Hamish Coates
  • Tim Friedman

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This paper explores how admissions tests are used in different higher education systems around the world. This is a relatively new area of research, despite the fact that admissions processes are a key component of university practices and given the everincreasing globalisation of higher education. This paper shows that aptitude and achievement tests, for example, are used in many developed countries. In some of them, a specific test is nationally instituted and generalised; consequently, the function of the test is well embedded in the education landscape of the country. Elsewhere, tests exist but are administered in an ad hoc fashion with little consistency across the sector. This paper provides an important reference tool for national systems and individual institutions interested in examining their position within the realm of international practice in the utilisation of admissions testing for university selection.

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  • Daniel Edwards & Hamish Coates & Tim Friedman, 2012. "A survey of international practice in university admissions testing," Higher Education Management and Policy, OECD Publishing, vol. 24(1), pages 1-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:edukaa:5k9bdck3bkr8
    DOI: 10.1787/hemp-24-5k9bdck3bkr8
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    1. Kamis, Rais & Pan, Jessica & Seah, Kelvin KC, 2023. "Do college admissions criteria matter? Evidence from discretionary vs. grade-based admission policies," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
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    3. Geide-Stevenson, Doris, 2018. "Does English proficiency affect academic performance?," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 28(C), pages 41-48.
    4. Graetz, Georg & Karimi, Arizo, 2022. "Gender gap variation across assessment types: Explanations and implications," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    5. Graetz, Georg & Karimi, Arizo, 2019. "Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms," Working Paper Series 2019:8, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.

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