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Download full textGodfrey, Kelly E.; Jagesic, Sanja – College Board, 2016
The College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP®) is a computer-based prior-learning assessment that allows examinees the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of knowledge and skills necessary to earn postsecondary course credit in higher education. Currently, there are 33 exams in five subject areas: composition and literature, world languages,…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Test Validity, Scores, Mathematics Tests
College Board, 2011
This catalog lists research reports, research notes, and other publications available from the College Board's website. The catalog briefly describes research publications available free of charge. Introduced in 1981, the Research Report series includes studies and reviews in areas such as college admission, special populations, subgroup…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Publications, Educational Research, College Students
Peer reviewedvon Davier, Alina A., Ed.; Liu, Mei, Ed. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
This report builds on and extends existent research on population invariance to new tests and issues. The authors lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of the use of population invariance measures in a wide variety of practical contexts. The invariance of linear, equipercentile and IRT equating methods are examined using data from five…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Statistical Analysis, Data Collection, Test Format
Appenzellar, Anne B.; Kelley, H. Paul – 1982
The College Board's Spanish Listening-Reading Test, designed to measure student ability and knowledge, is required of all students with previous knowledge of Spanish, however acquired, who have no college credit in Spanish and who intend to enroll in University of Texas, Austin, Spanish course. With satisfactory performance on the test, eligible…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Cutting Scores, Equivalency Tests
Chapman, David Q.; Hargrett, Nancy T. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1979
CLEP has been criticized for recommending cut-off scores so low that students who do not deserve credit are receiving credit, "the great credit giveaway." Investigation of the CLEP Examination in General Psychology suggests that the ETS recommended cut-off scores for college credit on this test may be too high. (Author)
Descriptors: College Credits, Cutting Scores, Equivalency Tests, Higher Education
Mazzeo, John; And Others – 1991
Two studies investigated the comparability of scores from paper-and-pencil and computer-administered versions of the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) General Examinations in mathematics and English composition. The first study used a prototype computer-administered version on each examination for 94 students for mathematics and 116 for…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
McCluskey, Jimmy – 1974
On March 1, 1971, Arkansas State University publicly announced its policy on credit-by-examination through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). Preceding this announcement institutional research was conducted to determine appropriate cut-off scores for awarding credit on the CLEP General Examinations and certain subject examinations. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Credits, Credits
Schroeder, Lee L.
College Level Examination Program (CLEP) Tests were normed on a national basis, administering the test to nationwide samples of subjects. Norms appear in the booklet, CLEP Scores: Interpretation and Use, and consist of the test score means for groups of students receiving grades of A, B, C, D, and F in the relevant course, the proportion of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Decision Making, Equivalency Tests, Error Patterns
Appenzellar, Anne B.; Kelley, H. Paul – 1982
Two validity studies of the College Board College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) Subject Examination in Elementary Computer Programming: Fortran IV determined that CLEP scores are appropriate for granting examination credit at the University of Texas at Austin. The standard-setting administration was in the spring of 1979, with a re-evaluation…
Descriptors: Credit Courses, Engineering Education, Equivalency Tests, Grades (Scholastic)
Dodd, Barbara G.; And Others – 1980
During the fall of 1979 the University of Texas Department of Government requested that the credit-by-examination program for a basic survey of American government be examined. The course, Government 310L, was developed out of previous policies and earlier validity studies of the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests. The present validity…
Descriptors: Credit Courses, Equivalency Tests, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education
Losak, John – 1978
Two studies investigated the effects of earning college credits for freshman year courses--as a result of performance on the College Level Examination Program's (CLEP) General Examinations--on later academic success. These are multiple choice tests of English composition, social science, natural science, humanities, and mathematics. Both studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Community Colleges, Equivalency Tests
Trotter, Thomas V.; Steadman, David G. – 1985
Results are summarized for a number of tests administered to secondary school students in Idaho. A description of each test and the students tested is provided, as well as the purposes of the test and a brief summary of results. Two tests administered especially in Idaho are included. The Idaho Proficiency Test, a criterion referenced test of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Minimum Competency Testing
Womack, Farris W.; McCluskey, Jimmy D. – 1974
More than half of the colleges and universities in the U.S. require entering freshmen to present scores on the American College Test (ACT) as a condition of admission. Within recent years, colleges and universities have been asked to determine procedures whereby prior educational achievement and life experiences could be evaluated and college…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Equivalency Tests, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Klein, Anna C.; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1977
Procedures and related issues involved in the application of trait-treatment interaction (TTI) to institutional research, in general, and to placement and proficiency testing, in particular, are discussed and illustrated. Traditional methods for choosing cut-off scores are compared and proposals for evaluating the results in the TTI framework are…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Equivalency Tests
Ackerman, Philip L. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
This report reviews a theoretically inspired empirical investigation of individual differences in knowledge, abilities, and nonability traits as part of an ongoing effort to better understand adult intellectual development and to develop more accurate measures of adult intelligence. Twenty Knowledge Scales were constructed, drawing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Adult Development, Intellectual Development, Individual Differences
