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Download full textSanchez, Edgar; Moore, Raeal – ACT, Inc., 2021
Studies have investigated contextual factors such as family, school, and peer support for test preparation, and results generally indicate that students with a stronger support system are more successful at increasing their scores by the use of test preparation. One important contextual factor, often overlooked in the literature, is how a testing…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Scores, Context Effect, Testing
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1971
The Youthpoll questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 5,241 students who had taken the ACT battery of tests in the 1969-70 school year. One thousand six hundred and three students responded to open-end questions concerning their attitudes, opinion and feelings regarding their parents, their teachers and schools, and student protest. Most of…
Descriptors: Activism, College Bound Students, Higher Education, Parents
SANDGREN, DUANE
FOUR MAJOR STUDIES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HARTNELL COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE MADE DURING THE 1965-66 YEAR. (1) SCORES WERE REPORTED FOR A VARIETY OF ENTRANCE TESTS (AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM, SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST, SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ABILITY TESTS, COOPERATIVE ENGLISH TEST, AND DAVIS READING TEST), AND A PROFILE OF THE TYPICAL ENTERING…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cheating, Codes of Ethics, College Entrance Examinations
