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Ngo, Federick; Kwon, William W. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Community college students are often placed in developmental math courses based on the results of a single placement test. However, concerns about accurate placement have recently led states and colleges across the country to consider using other measures to inform placement decisions. While the relationships between college outcomes and such…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Success, Community Colleges, Mathematics Education
Hughes, Katherine L.; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Placement exams are high-stakes assessments that determine many students' college trajectories. More than half of entering students at community colleges are placed into developmental education in at least one subject, based primarily on scores from these assessments, yet recent research fails to find evidence that placement into remediation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Testing, Student Placement
Hughes, Katherine L.; Scott-Clayton, Judith – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2010
Placement exams are high-stakes assessments that determine many students' college trajectories. More than half of entering students at community colleges are placed into developmental education in at least one subject, based primarily on scores from these assessments, yet recent research fails to find evidence that placement into remediation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Literature Reviews, High Stakes Tests
Secolsky, Charles, Ed.; Denison, D. Brian, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education" provides higher…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Teacher Effectiveness