Paper #699
- Title:
- University admission marks in Catalonia: Some highlights from the empirical research
- Authors:
- Anna Cuxart, Rosa M. Grau and Manuel MartÃ-Recober
- Date:
- June 2003
- Abstract:
- The results of the examinations taken by graduated high school students who want to enrol at a Catalan university are here studied. To do so, the authors address several issues related to the equity of the system: reliability of grading, difficulty and discrimination power of the exams. The general emphasis is put upon the concurrent research and empirical evidence about the properties of the examination items and scores. After a discussion about the limitations of the exams' format and appropriateness of the instruments used in the study, the article concludes with some suggestions to improve such examinations.
- Keywords:
- Admissions process, reliability of grading, index of difficulty, discrimination power
- JEL codes:
- C89, C99, I29
- Area of Research:
- Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
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