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Data Quality Campaign, 2014
High education expectations--and the tools to ensure that they are being met--empower educators, students, parents, and policymakers to support student learning and make the best decisions to improve education. Most states have voluntarily adopted the Common Core State Standards to serve as their education expectations. To consistently and…
Descriptors: State Standards, Consortia, Organizational Theories, Data Collection
ACT, Inc., 2014
This College Choice Report series follows the ACT-tested high school graduating class of 2014, focusing on specific testing behaviors that may expand college opportunities available to students. This is an important topic for enrollment managers and admissions officers to consider, as students' participation in these testing behaviors have…
Descriptors: College Choice, Research Reports, High School Graduates, Educational Opportunities
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Radford, Alexandria Walton; Horn, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
These Web Tables provide an overview of classes taken and credits earned by a nationwide sample of first-time beginning postsecondary students based on data from the Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS) of the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study. PETS collected transcripts from all the postsecondary institutions…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Freshmen, Academic Records, Longitudinal Studies
Puleo, Vincent T.; Lieberman, Billie E. – 1986
This preliminary investigation explored a means of maximizing the use of standardized test results. In addition to the usual package of alpha and ranked norm-referenced test reports, a special series of reports by the California Test Bureau/McGraw-Hill was generated for remedial reading and mathematics teachers. These reports displayed primarily…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis
College Entrance Examination Board, Princeton, NJ. – 1979
The Admissions Testing Program (ATP) is a service of the College Board. The 1979 ATP summary reports on college-bound seniors were produced for each region of the United States, including New England, the Middle, Southern, Midwestern, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Western States. The national and each regional report are in separate booklets.…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Advanced Placement, College Admission, College Applicants
Moulder, Brad; Abdulla, Abdulbaset; Morgan, Deanna L. – College Board, 2005
The College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP®) consists of a battery of 34 tests covering courses in which entering college students often enroll. CLEP exams are tools that help accredited colleges and universities provide course requirement exemptions to students who have gained outside-the-classroom knowledge of certain subjects. Students may…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Testing Programs, Prior Learning, Advanced Placement
McClain, Donald H.; Wessels, Stephen W. – 1975
The University of Iowa has been involved with the development, implementation, and operation of computer-based test-item pools and a test construction and course management system titled IPSIM (Iowa's Item Pool System for Instructional Management), originally devised for a freshman medical course in the Pathology Department of the College of…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Chemistry, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Storage Devices
Washington Pre-College Testing Program, Seattle. – 1979
Three sections describing the Washington Pre-College Test (WPC) are presented. The first, Registration Booklet, is intended for high school students who may take the WPC. It describes the program; provides detailed instructions on completing the answer folder; lists colleges in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho which accept WPC results; and includes…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Aptitude Tests, Biographical Inventories, Career Counseling