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Steve Hood; Cynthia Grua – Utah System of Higher Education, 2025
Prior learning refers to knowledge, skills, or competencies acquired through formal and informal education outside a traditional academic environment. This can include a student acquiring knowledge or skills through employee-sponsored training or military training, earning an industry certification, or taking national standardized exams. In the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Public Colleges, College Students, College Credits
Utah System of Higher Education, 2024
During the 2022-23 academic year, thousands of Utah students participated in the Utah System of Higher Education's credit for prior learning program, earning college credit and saving money on tuition. Prior learning is the knowledge, competencies, and skills acquired through formal and informal education outside a traditional academic…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Public Colleges, College Students, College Credits
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von Davier, Alina A., Ed.; Liu, Mei, Ed. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
This report builds on and extends existent research on population invariance to new tests and issues. The authors lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of the use of population invariance measures in a wide variety of practical contexts. The invariance of linear, equipercentile and IRT equating methods are examined using data from five…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Statistical Analysis, Data Collection, Test Format
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Yin, Alexander C.; Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
After surveying 1,827 students in their final year at eighty randomly selected two-year and four-year public and private institutions, American Institutes for Research (2006) reported that approximately 30 percent of students in two-year institutions and nearly 20 percent of students in four-year institutions have only basic quantitative…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Basic Skills, College Admission, Educational Testing
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Tittle, Carol Kehr; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
Provides an estimate of the number of credit hours likely to be earned if college freshmen took the College-Level Examination Program General Examinations (CLEP) and ascertains degree of relationships of scores on each of two CLEP subtests, of performance on an end-of-year achievement test, and of standing on a placement test administered prior to…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Students, English, Equivalency Tests
Womack, Farris W.; McCluskey, Jimmy D. – 1974
More than half of the colleges and universities in the U.S. require entering freshmen to present scores on the American College Test (ACT) as a condition of admission. Within recent years, colleges and universities have been asked to determine procedures whereby prior educational achievement and life experiences could be evaluated and college…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Equivalency Tests, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Moughamian, Henry; And Others – 1971
A student's age, sex, aspiration, and ability were related to successful performance (50th percentile or higher) on the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) general examinations. Previous college credits and attendance status, as measured, did not seem to be important factors. Of the variables investigated, ability, as measured by the American…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Aspiration, Age, College Credits
McCluskey, Jimmy; Womack, Farris – Southern College Personnel Association Journal, 1980
Regression equations were formulated to determine the predictability of the College Level Examination Program performance from ACT scores. Equation strength prompted further investigation to determine if a relationship could be established. The tally matrix from which probabilities were computed was found to be effective for predictive purposes.…
Descriptors: Achievement, College Students, Equivalency Tests, Higher Education
Vogel, Ross E.; Halinski, Ronald S. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
This article provides information designed to assist counselors in helping high school students realistically assess their chances of earning college credit through the CLEP General Examinations. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Credits, College Entrance Examinations
Reese, Lee W. – 1976
The 1976 edition of the handbook provides the most up-to-date accumulation of credit-by-examination policy data available. It is the result of several independent surveys conducted over the past few years. The survey for this edition resulted in about half of the institutions listed filing updated information. The College Level Examination Program…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, Adult Students, Advanced Placement Programs, College Admission