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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley; Zarrina T. Azizova; Norman P. Gibbs; Chukwu Ikegwuonu; Jeongeun Kim; Deborah Michele La Torre; Matthew R. Lavery; Margarita Pivovarova; Yi Zheng – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
In response to a call for research on using the SATs and ACTs for U.S.-based college and university admissions, researchers systematically interrogated the literature surrounding both tests, using a framework for validity evidence built upon the "Standards of Educational and Psychological Testing" and Kane's contemporary view of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Validity, Psychometrics, Decision Making
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Bethany Rittle-Johnson; Rebecca Adler; Kelley Durkin – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
The current study is a conceptual replication of the influence of an advanced educational opportunity and several student propensities to learn on a college-readiness assessment for mathematics (ACT scores) among an important and under-studied group of students. We focused on a sample of predominantly Black students from economically-disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students
Jack Mountjoy – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Universities
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2024
Since 1997, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) has published the Newark Kids Count Data Book, a one-stop source for child well-being data on the state's largest city. Newark Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five-year trend data, in the following areas: demographics, family economic security, child health, child…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Population Trends, Racial Differences