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Direct linkTate, Pamela – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2013
When Massachusetts Higher Education Commissioner Richard M. Freeland met in June with representatives from Boston businesses and the local community, four-year colleges, community colleges and the workforce system, he described the Vision Project, an initiative through the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education that aims to produce the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees
Adams, Caralee J. – Education Week, 2011
Little more than half of college freshmen will get a degree, but initiatives are emerging to boost college completion. The gap between access and completion has put a new focus on ramping up retention--the percentage of freshmen who return to the same institution for a second year of college. And that's a task, observers say, for precollegiate…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Testing Programs, Dropouts, Tutoring
Alper, Paul – Higher Education Review, 2010
The "Boston Globe" investigation shows that cheating on US Army exams is truly massive in scale, dwarfing any runof-the-mill scandal. According to the "Boston Globe," "For eight years the Army has known that its largest online testing program--which verifies that soldiers have learned certain military skills and helps them amass promotion…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Cheating, Computer Assisted Testing, Ethics
Download full textEducational Testing Service, 2010
This document describes the breadth of the research that the ETS (Educational Testing Service) Research & Development division is conducting in 2010. This portfolio will be updated in early 2011 to reflect changes to existing projects and new projects that were added after this document was completed. The research described in this portfolio falls…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Testing Programs, Educational Testing, Private Agencies
Shepherd, Ronald M. H. – School Guidance Worker, 1979
Gives excerpts from a proposal developed at the University of Toronto regarding a testing program and how it might be used in specifying admissions criteria for incoming students. (BP)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
ACT, Inc., 2007
ACT maintains that monitoring academic strengths and weaknesses through the effective use of results from standardized tests can promote learning and intellectual growth. When schools use achievement test scores to guide curriculum choices and to provide feedback to students, opportunities for learning increase. The ACT Educational Planning and…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Ethnic Groups, Testing, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedBoileau, Don M.; And Others – Communication Education, 1981
Describes a program to certify state and district judges of high school debate tournaments. Covers constructing the written test, evaluating the ballot test, implementing certification, and assessing the program. (PD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Certification, Debate, Evaluation Methods
Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Discusses how, as the College Board prepares to make changes in the SAT, experts debate how fair the new exam will be. (EV)
Descriptors: Change, College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Standardized Tests
Wood, Lewis J.; Ortega, Jacqueline – 1981
The development of a computer-based, university-wide testing system at Brigham Young University is discussed, as is its application to two large-enrollment math classes. The hardware configuration, software applications, general philosophy, budget, and personnel requirements of the system are also explained. Development of the system over time is…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education
Katz, Albert M.; And Others – 1985
The first stage of a three-stage speech placement test that can be used by individual campuses of the University of Wisconsin is discussed in this paper. The following applications of this speech theory test are described first: to exempt students from the basic communication course, to place students in an appropriate communication course, or to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Placement, Public Speaking
Peer reviewedGraves, Oliver Finley – Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1980
Describes the benefits derived by the University of Alabama at a time of declining enrollment from offering the Goethe Institute exam for the "Certificate in German as a Foreign Language." Also mentions other innovations introduced by the German department: an intensive first year course and a German House on campus. (MES)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, German
Peer reviewedReising, R. W. (Bob) – Clearing House, 1994
Reports on the 1994 English Advanced Placement Reading, an event which brought together 750 readers to provide accurate, efficient, and comfortable scoring of over 173,000 exams. (SR)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, English, English Literature
Peer reviewedArnold, Louise; Willoughby, T. Lee – Academic Medicine, 1990
The school of medicine of the University of Missouri--Kansas City developed the Quarterly Profile Examination, a schoolwide, longitudinal comprehensive examination of knowledge acquisition and retention, to satisfy internal and external requirements for assessment. The system is seen as effective in fostering problem-based and independent learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Professional Education
Brown, Janet R. – 1986
Competency assessment is used for diagnostic purposes at the City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College. CUNY had decided that all students admitted after 1987 be tested. In addition, minimum competencies were required after the completion of 60 credits. Queens College chose to use the tests for entering freshmen for placement decisions,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Diagnostic Tests, Higher Education
Rudner, Lawrence M. – Capital Ideas, 1987
This newsletter issue focuses on the subject of mandatory testing of prospective teachers prior to certification. The following questions are discussed: (1) What are the major types of teacher tests? (2) How prevalent are teacher tests? (3) What are the major teacher tests? (4) What problems do teacher testing programs address? (5) What are the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
