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Handwerk, Phil – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
Online high schools are growing significantly in number, popularity, and function. However, little empirical data has been published about the effectiveness of these institutions. This research examined the frequency of group work and extended essay writing among online Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) students, and how these tasks may have…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Placement, Computer Assisted Testing, Models
Shermis, Mark D.; Mzumara, Howard; Brown, Mike; Lillig, Clo – 1997
An important problem facing institutions of higher education is the number of students reporting that they are not adequately prepared for the difficulty of college-level courses. To meet this problem, a computerized adaptive testing package was developed that permitted remote placement testing of high school students via the World Wide Web. The…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Testing, High Schools
Roth, Jeffrey; Crans, Gerald S.; Carter, Randy L.; Ariet, Mario; Resnick, Michael B. – 1999
This study examined the effects of high school course choices, grades, and Grade Ten Assessment Test scores (GTAT) in math and reading, along with race and gender, on student performance on a computerized placement test (CPT) administered upon entry to community colleges in Florida. The sample consisted of 19,736 African-American, white, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Testing, High School Students
Wang, Xiang Bo – 1999
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is currently investigating the feasibility and advisability of administering a computerized Law School Admission Test (LSAT). In this context, using data from the College Boards 1989 National Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry Examination for 18,462 test takers and a survey of all AP Chemistry teachers in…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Advanced Placement, Chemistry, College Entrance Examinations
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Braun, Henry I.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1990
The accuracy with which expert systems (ESs) score a new nonmultiple-choice free-response test item was investigated, using 734 high school students who were administered an advanced-placement computer science examination. ESs produced scores for 82 percent to 95 percent of the responses and displayed high agreement with a human reader on the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Science, Constructed Response