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Download full textACT, Inc., 2014
ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends for years. Each August, they release "The Condition of College & Career Readiness" (www.act.org/ newsroom/data/2013), their annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, 54.3% of the 2013 graduating…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Statistical Data, College Readiness, Science Achievement
Milewski, Glenn B.; Camara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
In recent years, conflicting reports have circulated about the number of colleges and universities that have made standardized tests optional, rather than required, for admission. The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, has widely publicized a list of 391 colleges and universities that, it claims, do not require admissions…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Colleges, Admission Criteria, College Admission
PDF pending restorationReckase, Mark D. – 1986
The work presented in this paper defined conceptually the concepts of multidimensional discrimination and information, derived mathematical expressions for the concepts for a particular multidimensional item response theory (IRT) model, and applied the concepts to actual test data. Multidimensional discrimination was defined as a function of the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Difficulty Level, Discriminant Analysis, Item Analysis
Harris, Joan R.; Puryear, Gwendolyn R. – 1973
The evaluation report examines three ACT demonstration projects (Adolescents in Child Training) in San Antonio, Chicago, and Little Rock designed to involve adolescents in child training through the classroom and actual field experience. Part 1 of the report describes the three projects with respect to their contextual, conceptual, and programatic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Child Care, Child Development
