Admission groups and academic performance: A study of marginal entrants in the selection to higher education

Admission groups and academic performance : A study of marginal entrants in the selection to higher education

Originally included in thesis in manuscript form.
The purpose of this paper is to study whether Swedish admission policies successful in selecting the best-performing students. The Swedish universities select students based on two different instruments, which each form a separate admission group. A regression model is recommended to estimate the achievement differences for the marginally accepted students between the admission groups and is applied to a sample of 9024 Swedish university entrants in four different fields of education. Marginally accepted students in the group selected by school grades on average perform better than students accepted by an admission test, suggesting that a small reallocation of study positions towards the grade admission group may increase overall academic achievement. However, the achievement difference appears to vary concerning university programme selectivity. We found that increasing selection by grades in less competitive programmes would improve overall achievement, while we do not find any effect for highly competitive programmes.

Wikström, Magnus,1963-Umeå universitet,Nationalekonomi(Swepub:umu)mawi0007 (författare)
Umeå universitetNationalekonomi (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy: De Gruyter Open22:12194-61081935-1682

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