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Scharton, Maurice – ADE Bulletin, 1987
Details some of the advantages provided by a testing service that evaluates student writing. (NKA)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Departments, Essays, Higher Education
Klein, Stephen P.; Orlando, Maria – 2000
This report responds to a request for information about the quality of the tests the City University of New York (CUNY) uses to decide who must take remedial courses and a profile of CUNY freshmen. Roughly 65% of CUNY bachelor's degree students and nearly 90% of associate degree students are required to take remedial courses in reading, writing,…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Identification
Download full textOklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, 2004
The tenth annual report on student assessment in the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education is presented as required by the State Regents' "Policy Statement on the Assessment of Students for Purposes of Instructional Improvement and State System Accountability." Each institution must evaluate students at four levels (graduate student assessment…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Standards, Accountability, Educational Improvement
Spellman, Lisa – American Language Review, 1997
The problems associated with integrating limited-English-speaking students into English-speaking college classrooms are difficult to resolve. Beginning in fall 1998, the American College Testing Programs' new computer-adaptive English-as-a-Second-Language Assessment Battery, designed for use in postsecondary education programs, will help identify…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Limited English Speaking
Akst, Geoffrey; Hirsch, Lewis – Review of Research in Developmental Education, 1991
Drawing from a review of the literature and direct experience, this paper discusses key issues in developmental mathematics placement. First, the controversial practice of mandatory placement is examined, citing research results that support the practice and those that do not. Next, the diversity of developmental math placement standards is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Evaluation Methods
Coon, Anne C. – 1992
Every year approximately 1,300 first-year students at the Rochester Institute of Technology complete a 50-minute placement essay during summer and fall orientations. The essays are scored holistically, and the students are placed into one of three levels of an English composition course. At the end of the 10-week quarter of instruction, students…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Program Descriptions
New 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
Armstrong, Judy – 1991
A system to provide objective measures of institutional effectiveness was implemented at the Roswell branch of Eastern New Mexico University to determine whether the college was accountable to students, staff, and taxpayers; to improve the curriculum and programs; and to prepare for accreditation review in 1991. A task force spent the summer of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Outcomes Assessment, Graphs, Higher Education
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
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
Mahoney, Susan S. – 1987
This report covers the 1986-87 testing year in which eight colleges or schools at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin participated in the credit-by-examination program. Test results in 18 subject areas are reported. The summary section includes a discussion of the overall impact of credit-by-examination on eight participating schools or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement, College Credits
Mahoney, Susan S. – 1985
This special report documents the results of the program of credit by examination offered at the University of Texas at Austin during the 1984-1985 testing year. The data present a basis for a comprehensive picture of the impact of the program on this campus. The examinations covered 64 subject areas with 234 courses taught by 39…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Credits, College Entrance Examinations, Credit Courses
Cohen, Allan S. – 1985
Placement testing programs are generally designed to place students into courses for which they are best prepared, to reduce administrative costs due to students dropping and adding courses because of poor placement decisions, and to provide faculty with information concerning students' levels of preparation well in advance of the first day of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission (School), Educational Diagnosis, Educational Policy
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
White, Edward M. – 1979
Addressing the issue of testing and evaluation in English at the university level, this paper focuses on the development and use of the English Placement Test developed by the California State University system. The discussion of this testing program is placed within a framework of four testing principles: testing is an essential part of learning…
Descriptors: English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing
