An Index to Aid in the Development of High School Recruitment of Future Engineering and Science Majors

Turner, Galen E.; Crittenden, Kelly; Nelson, James; Tims, Heath

doi:10.18260/1-2--20925

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“…For the first metric, the letter grade classification is based on the last admission grade and last admission rank for the admission criteria (i.e., National Evaluation and average gymnasium grade) as presented in the 'High school enrolment procedure' section. As for the Turner's f -index, the metric is an adaptation of the Hirsch index (2005) for recruitment data [9].…”

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“…In order to further develop the grade classification system described above, we employed two alternative classification metrics based on an f -index as proposed in extant literature on high school recruitment [9]. The index is defined as the number of feeder high schools whose former students enrolled within the higher education institution ≥ f .…”

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“…Although the Romanian education standard has improved significantly in the last 10 years, there are still major improvements to be made [5]. In addition to the international disparities, the Romanian education system also fails to provide a nationally consistent standard: while some high schools are top performers, with last admission grades as high as 9.84, others are consistently delivering sup-prime results, with last admission grades as low as 4.74 [6].…”

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New Methodological Approach to Classify Educational Institutions—A Case Study on Romanian High Schools

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Since 2021, the National Evaluation exam in Romania (the exam aimed to assess 14- to 15-year-old students’ knowledge at the end of lower secondary education and just before high school) has presented a novel examination structure that resembles PISA tests. The current investigation analyses the 2021 National Evaluation exam results compared to the results obtained in the previous two years (2019–2020) as an evaluation of upper education institutions’ effectiveness in Romania. The results put forward the same conclusions as proposed by extant literature on Bucharest high schools. Even though the educational institutions show apparent progress and great adaptability to change, a more in-depth analysis reveals great inequality between educational institutions. As in the case of Bucharest, nationally there are only a small number of top-performing high schools in Romania, with the majority of high schools ranking in the lowest category as conceptualised in the study. The current investigation puts together a novel methodology for classification based on the main instruments proposed in literature: a letter grade classification and Turner’s f-index. The results and the methodological proposal are especially relevant considering the latest PISA (2018) conclusions on Romania characterising the national educational system as underperforming.

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