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James Riddlesperger – ACT Education Corp., 2025
This brief explores how the growth of school-day testing has changed the overall population of annual ACT testers to be more representative of all students; it also highlights key insights from school-day testing programs nationwide.
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Scheduling, State Programs
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Kroneisen, Meike; Kuepper-Tetzel, Carolina E. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2021
Sleep right after studying new material is more conducive to memory than a period of wakefulness. Another way to counteract forgetting is to practice retrieval: taking a test strengthens memory more effectively than restudying the material. The current work aims at investigating the interaction between sleep and testing by asking if testing adds…
Descriptors: Sleep, Scheduling, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)
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Chen, Binglin; West, Matthew; Zilles, Craig – Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Background: When students are given a choice of when to take an exam in engineering and computing courses, it has been previously observed that average exam scores generally decline over the exam period. This trend may have implications both for the design of interventions to improve student learning and for data analysis to detect collaborative…
Descriptors: Testing, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education
Allen, Jeff; Cruce, Ty; Dingler, Colin – ACT, Inc., 2023
ACT is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help people achieve education and workplace success. To help fulfill that mission, ACT offers school-day testing programs that provide all students with state- or district-funded access to its college readiness and admissions assessment, removing barriers to testing and opening doors to…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Nonprofit Organizations, Access to Education
Camara, Wayne J.; Allen, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2017
Students must choose when to take the ACT for the first time and if and when to retest. States and districts that administer the ACT test to all students must also choose when to administer the test. A key consideration in making these decisions is the impact on scores. Because the ACT is a curriculum-based test of academic achievement, students…
Descriptors: Scores, Time Perspective, Scheduling, Testing
Kapler, Irina V.; Cepeda, Nicholas J.; Weston, Tina – Education Canada, 2012
How can students' forgetting be reduced? The spacing effect--a promising strategy from the field of cognitive psychology--might hold some of the answers. Research has demonstrated that information is remembered two to three times better if study sessions are spaced in time rather than massed together. The testing effect is another research-based…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Testing, Memory, Cognitive Psychology
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Berschback, Rick – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
College professors often regard their time in the classroom fulfilling and rewarding; the chance to affect the academic and professional development of their students is most likely a key reason why they chose to be professional educators. Unfortunately, with college courses come college credits, which necessitate a course grade for each student,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cheating, Adjunct Faculty, Teaching Methods