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Texas Education Agency, Austin. Office of Policy Analysis and Evaluation. – 1995
This annual report presents results from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of the College Board's Admissions Testing Program and the American College Testing (ACT) Program's original and enhanced ACT assessment for prior year graduating seniors. The last decade had brought some recovery over the decline of the previous 10 years in both Texas and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This annual report presents Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) Program results for Texas for the 1993-94 graduating class. The last decade brought some recovery over the previous decade's decline in both Texas and national SAT averages, with relatively more improvement in Texas within the last 8 years. The average…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1999
This report presents Texas results for the 1997-98 graduating class for both the College Board's SAT I: Reasoning Test (SAT) and the ACT Assessment. In 1998, numbers of both SAT I- and ACT-tested graduates were up from the previous year. The highest number of Texas high school graduates ever took one of the two examinations. The last decade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1997
This annual report presents results from the College Board's new SAT I: Reasoning Test (Formerly the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT) and the American College Testing Program's Enhanced ACT Assessment for 1994-1995 graduating seniors. The last decade showed some recovery over the previous decade's decline in both Texas and national SAT/SAT I…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Policy Planning and Evaluation. – 1994
Since 1989 the Texas Education Agency has reported selected results from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of the College Board and the American College Testing Program's original and Enhanced ACT Assessment for prior year graduating seniors. This fifth annual report presents these data for the 1991-92 graduating class. Texas statewide and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates
Fenton, Ray; And Others – 1993
Because of a concern by the Alaska State Department of Education that results from the American College Test (ACT) and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are not being used to their fullest advantage to improve secondary instruction, the use of these assessment results by other states was studied. A two-page survey and request for copies of state…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Demography, Educational Change
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1991
This report provides information about the performance of 1991 graduating seniors nationwide who took the American College Testing (ACT) Program Assessment as juniors or seniors. All the average scores in this report are on the scale for the Enhanced ACT Assessment, which was introduced in October 1989. Averages for 1987-89 are based on scores…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Preparation, Educational Trends
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1991
Statistics in this report reflect characteristics of 1991 graduates from a given school (individual data, however, are not provided in this sample) who took the American College Testing (ACT) Program assessment. A 5-year trend history of college-bound students is provided. The following tables are presented: (1) average ACT scores by academic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, College Preparation