Přechod mezi střední a vysokou školou a role různých modelů přijímacích řízení

• Authors: Tomáš Konečný , Josef Basl , Jan Mysliveček
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The study evaluates the potential impact of alternative models of university entrance exams – a model based on field-specific knowledge and a model relying on general aptitude tests – in the context of the Czech education system since 1998, a system that can be described as highly stratified and suffering from a notable excess of demand for higher education over supply. Using the dataset Sonda Maturant 1998, the authors show that entrance exams based on general aptitude tests may outperform the field-specific knowledge model in terms of providing access to talented students from a lower socioeconomic background. The simulations show that under the general aptitude regime the relative chances of an applicant with a university-educated father are only one-quarter higher than the relative chances of a student with a less educated father, compared to more than a one-third difference in the case of the regime emphasising field-specific knowledge. For mother’s education, the respective odds ratios differ by the even larger margin of 28 percentage points.

Keywords

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higher education; entrance exams; educational equity; Czech Republic

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 43–72

Contributors

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Tomáš Konečný

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Josef Basl

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Jan Mysliveček

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