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Download full textGao, Rui; He, Wei; Ruan, Chunyi – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
In this study, we investigated whether preequating results agree with equating results that are based on observed operational data (postequating) for a college placement program. Specifically, we examined the degree to which item response theory (IRT) true score preequating results agreed with those from IRT true score postequating and from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Student Placement, Item Response Theory, True Scores
Direct linkYin, 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
Hardison, Chaitra M.; Sackett, Paul R. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
Despite the growing use of writing assessments in standardized tests, little is known about coaching effects on writing assessments. Therefore, this study tested the effects of short-term coaching on standardized writing tests, and the transfer of those effects to other writing genres. College freshmen were randomly assigned to either training…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Group Membership, College Freshmen, Writing Tests
Peer reviewedHargrett, Nancy T.; Chapman, David W. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1978
The use of standardized test scores to exempt students from college courses was investigated using the General Psychology Exam of the College Level Examination Program. Results questioned the ability of instructors to assess its utility. (JKS)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Credits, Equivalency Tests, Higher Education
Wolowelsky, Joel B. – Journal of Business Education, 1981
Superior high school business students should be given the same opportunity to participate in advanced placement programs as that given to those with more traditional academic interests. (JOW)
Descriptors: Accounting, Advanced Placement Programs, Business Education, High Schools
Peer reviewedGussett, James C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1980
The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive validity of the College Entrance Examination Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the College Entrance Examination Board Achievement Test scores in the prediction of scores on various subject area College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement Programs, College Entrance Examinations, Equivalency Tests
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
