英文摘要 |
For most departments of the selected university, this article uses a pairwise comparison method (matching an earlier interview department and another later interview department) to explore the differences between the two departments in the correct selection rate, the reserve rate, and the distribution rate, under the same academic year. Since the comparison uses the same academic year’s data, the total number of candidates will not interfere with the comparison result. However, the results of the comparison may be affected by the inherent differences between the two departments (not related to the selection of interview dates but caused by differences in the other factors between the two departments). As a pairwise comparison only involves two departments, this article has to perform multiple pairwise comparisons for the departments (the comparison objects selected for each pairwise comparison will not be the same), and then determine by frequency statistics which is more beneficial to the department to choose an earlier or later interview? The advantage of this approach is that the influence of the inherent differences between any two departments on the final judgment result of this article will decrease proportionally as the number of comparisons increases. The findings of this article are as follows: 84.6% of the pairwise comparison results confirm that the department that interviews later will have a higher correct selection rate; 38.5% of the pairwise comparison results confirm that the department that interviews later will have a lower reserve rate. ; 8% pairwise comparison results confirm that the late interview department has a higher distribution rate. These findings support that the department's choice of a later interview can obtain useful information to help distinguish which candidates are highly willing to study, but it is not certain that choosing a later interview will reduce the number of candidates participating in the department's interview. The findings in this article also predict that when the total number of candidates is large, the department will have a higher distribution rate of individual applications regardless of whether it chooses to interview earlier or later, and that when the total number of candidates is low, choose a later interview departments will have a higher distribution rate of individual applications than those that choose to interview earlier. |