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Download full textAustin S. Jennings – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
Competency-based testing and credentialing (CBTC) initiatives aim to address inequity in adult education by fundamentally changing how states use GED®, HiSET®, and TASC™ test scores to award and withhold high school equivalency credentials. However, CBTC is inconsistent with how developers intend states to use those scores. Accordingly, it falls…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Credentials, Equal Education
Lollar, Jonathan; Bernal, Cesar – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2020
Studies have found that educational credential attainment could reduce recidivism-- committing a criminal offense after being released from incarceration--by a significant amount (Davis et al., 2013; Lee College, 2019; Northwestern, 2020). Therefore, the philosophy department needed to create a program that would increase high-school-equivalency…
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Credentials, Juvenile Justice
Klieger, David M.; Williams, Kevin M.; Bochenek, Jennifer L.; Ezzo, Chelsea; Jackson, Teresa – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
Results from two studies provided strong evidence for the validity of the HiSET® tests, thereby demonstrating that HiSET is a well-developed battery of tests with passing and college and career readiness (CCR) standards that, when met, provide a pathway to postsecondary education, better employment opportunities and wages, and a better quality of…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Equivalency Tests, Credentials, College Readiness
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The overall design and framework of the GED Program is centered around providing measurements and tools documenting and promoting student achievement. More information about the test itself and the underlying documentation and validity framework may be found in the GED test Technical Manual on the GED Testing Service website. The philosophy…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, General Education, Credentials, Student Characteristics
GED Testing Service, 2018
The manual is presented in the form of a policy grid. The grid includes a consolidated list of General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service policies regarding the GED® test and overall GED® program. The grid combines all of the policies into one unified table and supersedes any prior policy manual.
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Equivalency Tests, Testing Programs, Educational Policy
