The Thirteenth SweSAT conference Selection To Higher Education - Fairness, Efficiency, and Consequences 15 - 17 June 2010, Umeå, Sweden

News: Here is some photos from the conference


The thirteenth SweSAT conference on Admissions to Higher Education conference is now over. It was a very successful event and we hope that it can be repeated again in the future, as policy and practice in relation to admissions to higher education is very important and of international concern and we feel it is very important to share information and knowledge to ensure reliable and valid instruments and selection systems.

The organisers would like to thank the sponsors, the Swedish Research Council, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and Umeå University for making this event possible. Most of all, we would like to thank all the presenters and participants, who shared their knowledge and their work with us all and made the event so interesting and informative!

On this page, presentations (papers and/or powerpoint) can be downloaded. The page will be updated regularly, so if the presentation you are interested in is not here, try again in a few days.

If you have any questions about the conference, do not hesitate to contact us on swesat@edmeas.umu.se

The SweSAT team /Högskoleprovsgruppen




CONFERENCE PROGRAMME [download the full programme here]

Tuesday 15 June

Introduction by Nils Olsson (Sweden)

Presentation by Christina Stage (Sweden) The SweSAT – Past, present, and future

Keynote by Michal Beller (Israel) Admission policies and practices in an era of mass higher education

Paper session 1: Admission to higher education worldwide

Maia Miminoshvili, Iamze Kutaladze, Sofia Dolidze & Tamar Bokuchava (Georgia) Examination systems and democratic values in the post Soviet society: The Georgian example.

Marita MacMahon Ball (Australia) & Siún O’Flynn (Ireland) The rationale, politics and practice of high stakes testing: Undergraduate admission to medicine in Ireland.

Paper session 2: Economic perspectives on admission and achievement

Magnus Wikström and Christina Wikström (Sweden) Early Career Returns to University Entrance and Prior Scholastic Achievement

Gérard Lassibille (France) & Lucía Navarro Gómez (Spain) How long does it take to earn a higher education degree in Spain?

Wednesday 16 June

Keynote by Jan-Eric Gustafsson (Sweden) Cognitive abilities and academic achievement as predictors of success in higher education: The Encapsulation model.

Paper session 3a: Selection to higher education worldwide

Olev Must (Estonia) Scholastic aptitude test and other admission criteria at the University of Tartu.

Paper session 3b: Prediction of academic achievement

Christina Wikström and Magnus Wikström (Sweden) Predictive validity and the effect of time: Should there be a best before date for admissions instruments?

Eduardo Cascallar (Belgium), Mariel Musso (the Netherlands), & Eva Kyndt (Belgium) Neural network-based systems for the predictive classification of higher education academic performance: Applications for selection and placement.

Poster session
A Christina Lalander (Sweden) Diagnostic test for language teacher education

B Tova Stenlund (Sweden) Validity in Assessment, Accreditation and recognition of Prior Learning In Higher Education

C Christina Stage, Gunilla Ögren (Sweden) The Swedish Scholastics Assessment Test (SweSAT)

D Anders Lexelius, Jenny Lindberg, Peder Långström (Sweden) SweSAT - The Quantitative Section

E Stig Eriksson, Ragnar Haake, Maria Johansson (Sweden) SweSAT -The Verbal Section

Keynote by Wim van der Linden (The Netherlands/USA) Fairness in selection: Paradoxes and dilemmas

Paper session 4a: Predictive validity in university admission

Mladen Koljatic, Mónica Silva, Rodrigo Cofré (Chile) Achievement versus aptitude in college admissions: A cautionary note based on evidence from Chile.

Sebastián Prado Terrazas (Chile) Predictive validity study of a new system of Chilean university admission: The case of engineering.

Paper session 4b: Issues in test administration

Frans Kleintjes (The Netherlands) Adaptive Computerized Tests for mathematics and Dutch language for teacher training colleges in The Netherlands.

Graham Hudson (United Kingdom) Improving marking reliability in high-stakes examinations.

Thursday 17 June

Paper session 5a: Broadened recruitment

Christina Wikström (Sweden), Debbie Dunsford & Elizabeth McKinley (New Zealand) Admission to higher education in New Zealand and Sweden: Diversities and common concerns.

Per Andersson (Sweden) Non-traditional applicants for higher education - A study of the 25:4 system.

Paper session 5b: Test development

Frans Kleintjes (the Netherlands) The use of embedded fieldtesting in large scale tests.

Per-Erik Lyrén (Sweden) Considerations in building and maintaining score scales for reporting test results.

Keynote by Ronald K Hambleton (USA) Giving test takers more information about their exam performance

Panel discussion with the keynote presenters/SweSAT international scientific advisory board members: Selection to higher education – Fairness, Efficiency & Consequences