Access to social work education : correlations between applicant performance on selection tasks, demographics and success as a student
Date
2018-07-06Citation:
Hughes, C. R., McNabb, D. J., Gremillion, H., & Bridgeman, M. (2018, July). Access to social work education: Correlations between applicant performance on selection tasks, demographics and success as a student. Paper presented at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, Dublin, Ireland.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/4414Abstract
This study supports existing literature:
- documenting the ineffectiveness of selection criteria for social work programmes
- addresses a gap in scholarship by examining the value of specific selection tools and measures.
- Factors that do correlate with student success suggest that being well-resourced as a student is paramount.
- Supporting students to succeed during the course of their study may be of higher value than attempting to select “suitable” students in the first place.
