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Direct linkNgo, Federick; Kwon, William W. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Community college students are often placed in developmental math courses based on the results of a single placement test. However, concerns about accurate placement have recently led states and colleges across the country to consider using other measures to inform placement decisions. While the relationships between college outcomes and such…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Success, Community Colleges, Mathematics Education
Download full textHughes, Katherine L.; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Placement exams are high-stakes assessments that determine many students' college trajectories. More than half of entering students at community colleges are placed into developmental education in at least one subject, based primarily on scores from these assessments, yet recent research fails to find evidence that placement into remediation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Testing, Student Placement
Hughes, Katherine L.; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2010
Placement exams are high-stakes assessments that determine many students' college trajectories. More than half of entering students at community colleges are placed into developmental education in at least one subject, based primarily on scores from these assessments, yet recent research fails to find evidence that placement into remediation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Literature Reviews, High Stakes Tests
Townsend, Amy; Shelley, Kyna – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
The community college has always played an integral role in job training but never more so than following the 1998 Workforce Investment Act (WIA) that significantly increased the community colleges' opportunity to join with others in the provision of job training services. With this, however, came demand for high levels of collaboration between…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Training, Cooperation, Factor Analysis
Anderson, Robin D.; Thelk, Amy D. – Assessment Update, 2005
When a college or university needs an assessment instrument, it has two choices: select an existing instrument or develop a new one. Since the cost of instrument development in both time and human resources is often prohibitive, many assessment programs rely on existing instruments. The challenge then becomes choosing one that provides the best…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Validity, Item Analysis, College Faculty
Secolsky, Charles, Ed.; Denison, D. Brian, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education" provides higher…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Teacher Effectiveness
