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Download full textPayne, J. Scott; Allen, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2019
ACT® Academy™ was launched in March 2018 as a free online resource to help students improve their academic skills and prepare for the ACT® test. This study provides an early look at ACT Academy usage and its effects on ACT test scores. The authors found that moderate usage (e.g., 6 hours) of ACT Academy's quizzes and practice tests leads to an…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Coaching, Scores, College Readiness
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Pearson explored the relationship between the use of Sistema COC with learner outcomes like students' achievement in the simulated national assessments. Pearson conducted a study comparing results on the SimENEM, a practice exam, for students in Sistema COC schools with similar students in public and private schools not using Sistema COC. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Test Coaching, National Competency Tests
Gatti, Guido; Lee, Kenneth; Reis, Gustavo Alexandre – Pearson, 2019
Sistema COC is a learning system for Brazilian private school students attending kindergarten through 12th grade. Its mission is to prepare students for assessments administered by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (INEP) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. The most important of these assessments is the Exame Nacional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Test Coaching, National Competency Tests
Zhengdong, Gan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2009
Since the University Grants Committee (UGC) selected the academic module of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as the common English proficiency assessment for graduating undergraduate degree students in 2002, almost all the tertiary institutions in Hong Kong have offered IELTS preparation courses that aim at providing…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Test Coaching
Peer reviewedSaunders, Paula; Scialfa, Charles T. – Written Communication, 2003
The purpose of Study 1a was to determine the criteria that differentiate students who perform well and those who perform poorly on a standardized test of university-level writing. Discriminant function analysis revealed that measures of structure, sentencing, paragraphing, and grammar play the most important role in separating these two groups.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Discriminant Analysis
Kimmel, Jonella J.; Garcia, Criselda G. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2003
In addition to acquiring an appropriate undergraduate degree and passing a subject area ExCET exam, preservice teachers in Texas are required to pass the Professional Development Examination for the Certification of Educators in Texas (ExCET PD) to become certified teachers. This study was designed to examine the effects of a 5-week WebCT online…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Seminars, Teacher Certification, Computer Software Evaluation
Powers, Donald E. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
To document the extent of special test preparation for the SAT I: Reasoning Test, a stratified random sample of some 6,700 students who registered to take the SAT in 1995-96 was surveyed. A smaller companion survey sought information about special preparation programs from a stratified random sample of secondary schools whose students take the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Preparation, Use Studies, Incidence
