More nuanced student equity measures needed

Daniel Edwards; Julie McMillan; Liang-Cheng Zhang

More nuanced student equity measures needed

Daniel Edwards, Julie McMillan, Liang-Cheng Zhang

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment has published a report that cautions against using ranking systems exclusively to determine equity policy in higher education, due to the fundamental difficulty of finding agreement on what constitutes equity and how it should be measured.

Original language	English
Journal	Discover - Higher education
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2022

Keywords

Equity policy
Higher education
Inclusiveness
Quality and standards
Student equity

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Higher Education

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