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Understanding the Impact of an ACT Intervention Course through the Perspectives of Previous Students
Direct linkApril Clement – ProQuest LLC, 2021
College admission exams have long been the determining factor in students' college acceptance as well as being used as a predictor of success in college. States across America also used college admission exams as a way to measure a school's success in multiple dimensions. This study examined the effect of placing participants in an ACT…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Intervention, Test Preparation, Scores
Peer reviewedPerry, Tonya B.; McMurtry, Teaira Catherine Lee – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a year-long writing intervention located in an urban high school in partnership with a university teacher education professor and the students. The goals were as follows: to increase student self-efficacy about writing overall; to increase the number of students who successfully…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Writing Instruction, Intervention
Ray, Amber B.; Graham, Steve – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
High school students with high-incidence disabilities and struggling writers face considerable challenges when taking writing assessments designed for college entrance. This study examined the effectiveness of a writing intervention for improving students' performance on a college entrance exam, the writing assessment for the ACT. Students were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Writing Difficulties, Writing Evaluation
Pickup, Rhonda Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this comparative study was to determine the effectiveness of 2 ACT intervention preparation programs. One was a face-to-face ACT intervention preparation program and the 2nd was a computer-based ACT intervention preparation program. Both of these intervention programs were used with at-risk high school juniors and seniors in a large…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Test Preparation, College Entrance Examinations, Scores
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2014
The 2013 study, "Evaluation of the College Possible Program: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial", investigated the effect of the "College Possible" program, which is designed to serve low-income high school students by providing SAT/ACT test preparation, financial aid consulting, and college admissions guidance in an…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Regression (Statistics), Low Income, High School Students
Diaz, Jorge Luis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study was conducted in order to use the created program Interactive Classroom Educational Technology (ICETS) with students attending an inner-city high school for developing testing skills to enable higher scores on the test formally known as the American College Test (ACT), now simply named the ACT, English subtest. The proposed…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Intervention, Educational Change, Urban Schools
Walters, Nancy; DeSalvo, Alaina; Shafer, Shakiya – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2017
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
Walters, Nancy; Mixon, Joel D.; Oliver, Nekey – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2015
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
McGaughey, Trisha A.; Wade, Julie H.; Zhao, Huafang – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
This brief describes an evaluation of academic intervention supports available to high school students in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) during the 2012-2013 school year. A website review identified information about academic supports available to students or parents within each high school's web pages. A survey of school staff gathered…
Descriptors: Counties, Academic Support Services, At Risk Students, High School Students
Justus, Leisa Collins – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Student success in attaining college acceptance, gaining scholarship(s), and having postsecondary education or workforce choice is closely tied to achievement on the most widely used and accepted college entrance examination, the "ACT". Researchers have studied various interventions designed to impact "ACT" scores, but one…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Ethnicity
Walters, Nancy; Williams-Wyche, Shaun – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2013
Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP) is a program of competitive grants awarded to postsecondary institutions, professional organizations and community-based organizations. Funded programs focus on increasing the access and success of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education by strengthening their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, College Preparation, Enrichment Activities
