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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