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Allen, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2020
This brief summarizes five benefits of schools providing the PreACT® to all their students. The PreACT 8/9 (an earlier version of the PreACT test that is more appropriate for students in grades 8 and 9) and PreACT assessments are designed to provide students with an indication of their educational progress in the context of preparing for the ACT®…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Preparation, Educational Benefits, Multiple Choice Tests
Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Considerable evidence indicates that self-efficacy, task value, anxiety, and the use of language learning strategies are related. However, there is currently an insufficient understanding about their relations in high-stakes testing contexts. The author aimed to investigate how well social factors, test value, anxiety, test performance, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 12, Predictor Variables
Park, Julie J.; Becks, Ann H. – Review of Higher Education, 2015
Research on inequality and high schools often focuses on inequality "within" and "between" high schools. Different high schools may have markedly different access to resources such as college counselors and Advanced Placement offerings, or inequality may exist within a high school due to tracking or other forms of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Test Preparation, High School Students
Byun, Soo-yong; Park, Hyunjoon – Sociology of Education, 2012
Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, this study assessed the relevance of shadow education to the high academic performance of East Asian American students by examining how East Asian American students differed from other racial/ethnic students in the prevalence, purpose, and effects of using the two forms--commercial test preparation…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Academic Achievement, Youth, Asian American Students