Using degree grades as indicator of performance in a Greek university of social studies

Evaluation and Research in Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-49

  Katsikas, Elias ^a   Dergiades, Theologos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

academic performance; department size; duration of studies; educational system; university entry system; working students

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955729922     PISSN: 09500790     EISSN: 17477514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500790903071944     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Antoninis, M., and Tsakloglou, P., 2001. Who benefits from public education in Greece? Evidence and policy implications. Education Economics, 9 (2): 197–222.
2. Asteriou, D., and Hall, S., 2007. Applied econometrics; a modern approach, Rev. ed, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
3. Cartney, P., and Rouse, A., 2006. The emotional impact of learning in small groups: Highlighting the impact on student progression and retention. Teaching in Higher Education, 11 (1): 79–91.
4. Chatzipantelis, T., 2004. Observatory of the flow of students. Retrieved 15 October, 2006, from http://auth.gr./news/announcements/parRohsFoit
5. Dayioğlu, M., and Türüt-Aşik, S., 2007. Gender differences in academic performance in a large public university in Turkey. Higher Education, 53 (2): 255–277.
6. Derksen, S., and Keselman, H.J., 1992. Backward, forward and stepwise automated subset selection algorithms: Frequency of obtaining authentic and noise variables. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 45: 265–282.
7. Entwistle, N., 2004. Teaching and learning in diverse university settings: Analytic framework for integrating different data sources. Fifth annual conference, 22–24 November, Cardiff. Retrived 11 November, 2008, from http://www.tlrp.org/dspace/handle/123456789/107
8. Hoskins, S.L., Newstead, S.E., and Dennis, I., 1997. Degree performance as a function of age, gender, prior qualifications and discipline studied. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 22 (3): 317–328.
9. Hounsell, D., Entwistle, N., Meyer, E., Beaty, E., Tait, H., Anderson, C., et al. 2005. Enhancing teaching-learning environments in undergraduate courses. Summarizing statement. Retrieved 11 November, 2008, from http://www.tlrp.org/dspace/handle/123456789/749
10. Hurvich, C.M., and Tsai, C.L., 1990. The impact of model selection on inference in linear regression. American Statistician, 44: 214–217.
11. Hyde, J.S., and Kling, K.C., 2001. Women, motivation, and achievement. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25 (4): 364–378.
12. Johnes, J., and Taylor, J., 1990. Performance indicators in higher education, Oxford: SRHE/OUP.
13. Kalamaras, D., Kalamatianou, A., 2006, 26–29 April Survival tables for the estimation of the distribution of the duration of studies; further results. Nineteenth conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Kastoria.
14. Kalamatianou, A., and McClean, S., 2003. The perpetual student: Modelling duration of undergraduate studies based on lifetime-type educational data. Lifetime Data Analysis, 9 (4): 311–330.
15. Katsikas, C., and Kavvadias, G., 1994. Inequalities in Greek education, Athens: Gutenberg. (in Greek)
16. Katsikas, E., Dergiades, T., 2006, 26–29 April. Measuring the size of long term bogged studentship. The case of the University of Macedonia. Nineteenth conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Kastoria.
17. Katsikas, E., Katranidis, S., 2006. Bogged studendship in the University of Macedonia, University of Makedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece in Greek.
18. Kiridis, A., 1997. Inequalities in Greek education and access to the university, Athens: Gutenberg (in Greek).
19. Martinez, P., 2001 Improving student retention and achivement; what do we know and what do we need to find out? Report published by the Learning and Skills Development Agency in UK. Retrieved from WWW. LSDA. org. uk, LSDA Reports.
20. McCune, V., 2003, October. Promoting high-quality learning: Perspectives from the ETL Project. Paper presented at the Norwegian Network in Higher Education fourteenth conference on university and college pedagogy, Fredrikstad, Norway.
21. McMillan, J., 2005. Course change and attrition from higher education. Research report, no. 39. Retrieved 11 November, 2008, On line access at www.acer.edu.au/documents/LSA_lsay39.pdf
22. McNabb, R., Pal, S., and Sloane, P., 2002. Gender differences in educational attainment: The case of university studies in England and Wales. Economica, 69: 481–503.
23. Papas, G., and Psacharopoulos, G., 1991. The determinants of educational achievement in Greece. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 17 (1): 405–418.
24. Patrinos, H.A., 1992. Higher education finance and economic inequality in Greece. Comparative Education Review, 36 (3): 298–308.
25. Patrinos, H.A., 1995. Socioeconomic background, schooling, experience, ability and monetary rewards in Greece. Economics of Education Review, 14 (1): 85–91.
26. Psacharopoulos, G., and Papakonstantinou, G., 2005. The real university cost in a ‘Free’ higher education country. Economics of Education Review, 24 (1): 103–108.
27. Psacharopoulos, G., and Tassoulas, S., 2004. Achievement at the higher education entry examinations in Greece: A Procrustean approach. Higher Education, 47 (2): 241–252.
28. Roecker, E.B., 1991. Prediction error and its estimation for subset-selection models. Technometrics, 33: 459–469.
29. Siegfried, J., and Round, D.K., 1994. The Australian undergraduate economics degree; results from a survey of students. The Economic Record, 70: 192–203.
30. Smith, R., and Naylor, R., 2001. Determinants of degree performance in UK universities; a statistical analysis of the 1993 student cohort. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63 (1): 29–60.
31. Tsakloglou, P., Choletzas, I., 2005. Education and inequality in Greece. IZA Discussion Paper no 1582.
32. Vermunt, J.D., 2007. The power of teaching-learning environments to influence student learning. British Journal of Educational Psychology, Monograph Series II. no., 1, 4 (1): 72–89.