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Download full textFalkenstern, Colleen – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2020
This brief is part of a broad landscape analysis focused on policy and practice issues related to the recognition of prior learning. The landscape analysis focuses on issues arising in the practice of the recognition of prior learning, policies that encourage or limit its adoption, and key research needs and future directions for the field. This…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Adult Students, Recognition (Achievement), College Credits
Goolsby, Thomas M., Jr. – Educ Psychol Meas, 1970
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Students, Equivalency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Rudolph, Robert S.; Summers, Richard M. – Freshman English News, 1977
Considers the good and bad points of the three composition tests in the CLEP program. Finds that the Freshman English Subject Examination is a better over-all test than the General Examination in English Composition or the English Composition Examination. (RL)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English Instruction, Equivalency Tests, Higher Education
McCluskey, Jimmy – 1974
On March 1, 1971, Arkansas State University publicly announced its policy on credit-by-examination through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). Preceding this announcement institutional research was conducted to determine appropriate cut-off scores for awarding credit on the CLEP General Examinations and certain subject examinations. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Credits, Credits
Direct linkYin, Alexander C.; Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
After surveying 1,827 students in their final year at eighty randomly selected two-year and four-year public and private institutions, American Institutes for Research (2006) reported that approximately 30 percent of students in two-year institutions and nearly 20 percent of students in four-year institutions have only basic quantitative…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Basic Skills, College Admission, Educational Testing
Campbell, Jeff H. – College Board Review, 1978
A professor's 10-year experience on the development committee for the CLEP Humanities Test provides the basis for this supportive assessment of the College Level Examination Program. Changes in tests, question selection, the value of pre-testing, and other responsibilities of development committees are discussed. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Credits, College Entrance Examinations, Equivalency Tests
Peer reviewedEnger, John M; Whitney, Douglas R. – College and University, 1974
The purpose for adopting the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) at the University of Iowa was to enable students to satisfy certain graduation requirements thus freeing them to take other courses. This purpose is being accomplished without many early (or "cheap") graduations. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Credits, College Graduates, Educational Research
Ballowe, James – ADE Bulletin, 1973
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Conference Reports, Equivalency Tests, Student Evaluation
Burt, Forrest D., Ed.; King, Sylvia, Ed. – 1974
The topic of this booklet is the current programs in equivalency testing in English, their inherent problems and any possible solutions. Papers which were presented orally at the Texas Conference on Placement, Exemption, and Credit in English consist of "Societal Demands for the Program of Placement, Exemption, and Credit"; "Grounds…
Descriptors: College Credits, College English, Colleges, Educational Trends
Tietenberg, T. H. – 1976
The author presents critical comments on a paper by John Siegfried, in which Siegfried reports on a controlled experiment to determine whether the educational experience of being a proctor is sufficiently valuable to justify awarding academic credit. Siegfried argues that a semester of proctoring teaches a student more than a one-semester,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Economics Education
