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Shuster, Kate – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Using the nationally representative, cohort-based data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02), this study employs multiple regression to examine the effects of exit exams on student achievement and school completion. This study finds that exit exams as a whole do not have substantial effects on student achievement in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests
Mellard, Daryl F.; Anderson, Gretchen – National Commission on Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2007
Adult secondary education learners approach the goal of college-level postsecondary education through three assessment gateways: (a) measures of adult education program learning gains, (b) a high-school equivalency exam, and (c) college placement tests. On the surface, the assessments in this sequence might appear to work in concert and point…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Adult Education, Adult Learning, School Readiness
Nagel, Elaine – 1999
For seven years, the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) was the primary standardized assessment instrument used by the adult education program of the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV (MIUIV) of the Pennsylvania Department of Education Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education. While reviewing its current assessment procedures, the MIUIV's…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy