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Pilcher, Nick; Smith, Karen; Riley, Jackie – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Although end of course exams remain a key mode of assessment in higher education, little research has focused on international students' experiences of exams. There seems to be a tacit assumption in most literature that exam preparation and strategies are universal, although differences in other areas of learning exist. As an exemplar, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Tests
ACT, Inc., 2005
The ACT is an achievement test--it indicates whats students are ready to learn next by measuring what they currently know and can do. Given the content and philosophy of the ACT, the approach that is most likely to increase ACT scores is high school coursework, because much of the knowledge and skills that are taught in high school are being…
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Readiness, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement