"Are we just opening up our universities and we don't care what their prior attainment is, or are we actually comparing qualifications across international education systems?" she asks.
Scores employ a sophisticated methodology that tracks individual students from enrolment to graduation, comparing qualifications upon entry with the award that a student receives at the end of their studies.
Scores have been revamped for this year's table, and now employ a sophisticated methodology that tracks individual students from enrolment to graduation, comparing qualifications upon entry with the award that a student receives at the end of their studies.
Noting that his commerce secretary nominee, the pop idol Britney Spears, "has made a ton of money before the age of 21," Mr. Gore challenged Americans to compare her qualifications with those listed for commerce secretary by his opponent.
We think our approach of segmenting the labour market by occupations is more suited to the study of immigration because when it comes to the measurement of education levels of migrants, one finds that it is often tricky to accurately compare education qualifications across countries, given the different education systems and arguably differences in the quality of education.
The profiles compare the qualifications of educators who teach in low-income, high-minority schools with those who teach in wealthier areas.
It compares the qualifications among the various design jobs in the product development process, and between different types of design organizations.
The researchers compared the qualifications for students who applied early with those who applied in the regular admissions cycles, based on SAT scores, class ranks, and the academic and nonacademic ratings by admissions officers.
With it, researchers have been able to analyze types of charter schools, comparing the qualifications of teachers at urban charter schools, for example, with those at regular public schools or at other charters in the suburbs.
