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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
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 1983
The Education Policy Committee's actions and recommendations are presented regarding resolutions passed at the fall 1981 conference of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC). First, a resolution recommending the pursuit of departmental articulation agreements with state colleges and universities is addressed. Statewide…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Diagnosis
Suddick, David E.; Vaccaro, John B. – 1983
In 1981, the Faculty Senate, at an upper division midwestern university, initiated the consideration of a literate skills testing program to address variance in academic level of the entering undergraduate student. The policy stipulated that all undergraduate students admitted to a degree program must demonstrate competency in writing and…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, College Students, Higher Education
Download full textNew Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1986
The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) is administered in a new form each year to all entering freshmen in New Jersey public colleges and 12 participating independent colleges. The NJCBSPT was taken by 44,344 students from March through December 1985. Test results revealed the following: (1) 26% were proficient in verbal…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Private Colleges
Lutz, William D. – 1980
The development of the portion of a basic skills test that would adequately assess the writing ability of entering college freshmen in New Jersey is described in this paper. The stages of the test development process that are discussed include the decision to incorporate a writing sample in the form of an essay on a specified topic, the selection…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Peer reviewedWatters, Pat – Change, 1979
The system of competency tests used by the University of Georgia System is examined. Arguments for and against the tests developed by the state board of regents are presented, and the issue of racial discrimination is also addressed. (JMF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Graduates, Competence, Competency Based Education
Morante, Edward A.; And Others – 1982
The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) was instituted in 1978 as a proficiency examination designed to measure the reading, writing, and mathematics skills of students entering college. In spring and summer 1982, 51,135 students at New Jersey's state and county colleges and at 10 independent colleges took the NJCBSPT. Of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, College Students, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedLutkus, Anthony D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1985
New Jersey's statewide testing program demonstrates that systematic data collection and reporting can have a major impact on both understanding the gap between college expectations and high school preparation and on the college and pre-college efforts to close that gap. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Competency Based Education
Edge, Donald – 1979
Test results are summarized for the second year of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test administered to 47,725 entering freshmen in the fall of 1979. Performance is categorized into one of three groups: appears proficient in basic skills tested; demonstrates proficiency in some (but not all) of the areas tested; and demonstrates a…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. – 1995
The Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) is a statewide program designed to ensure that all students attending public colleges and universities have the basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills necessary to perform effectively at the college level. All entering first-time freshmen are required to take the TASP test, which has a basic skills…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Graduation Requirements
Noreen, Robert, Ed. – 1987
The Conference on English and Mathematics brought together 100 faculty members from the California Community Colleges and the California State University to address such topics as curricular standards; admission, placement, and exit testing; improvement of transition from upper- to lower-division study; and the integration of English and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, College Mathematics
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1988
In response to a legislative mandate, this report assesses the validity of the College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) and offers recommendations for increasing the passing rate of students. Section I summarizes the Florida State Legislature's interest and intent in establishing CLAST an achievement test--measuring skills in computation,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Legislation
Ledbetter, Rosanna – 1978
Reasons for the literacy problem on college and university campuses and the role of higher education in confronting this problem are discussed. Many young people today lack English skills necessary for holding a job, and students entering college are deficient in basic language skills. Some educators feel that college admission standards should be…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Role, College Students, Educational Testing
Rudner, Lawrence M.; Eissenberg, Thomas E. – 1989
This digest summarizes the results of the latest annual survey of state teacher testing programs. State directors of teacher testing programs were contacted in the summer of 1989 and asked to update the data compiled by the American Institutes for Research in 1988. Data indicate that: (1) states commonly use admission tests for applicants to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1980
This paper describes the meeting of the Reading and Writing Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Basic Skills Council with selected high school English teachers and administrators. This panel established cut scores for statewide interpretation of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT). The NJCBSPT is administered to all…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cutting Scores, Higher Education
