This paper summarizes much of the available information concerning the reliability and validity of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED Tests). The data suggest that the results are sufficiently reliable for continued use and that the validity evidence generally supports the intended uses of the tests. (Author/LMO)

Provides an estimate of the number of credit hours likely to be earned if college freshmen took the College-Level Examination Program General Examinations (CLEP) and ascertains degree of relationships of scores on each of two CLEP subtests, of performance on an end-of-year achievement test, and of standing on a placement test administered prior to…

Social Studies was the best predictor in the two-year colleges whereas Literature was the most predictive of success in the four-year colleges. (Author)

The primary use of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) is to appraise the educational development of adults who have not completed their formal high school education. The significance of these tests for higher education lies in their extensive use in admission of non-high-school-graduate adults to college. This study has three major…

Because of the high rate of failure of engineering students in a required engineering physics course at the University of Texas at Austin, College Board Achievement Test (CBAT) scores in Mathematics Level 1 for 537 students enrolled in the course were compared with their physics grades. Performance on the mathematics section of the Scholastic…

Deficiencies in the format, content, and predictive validity of a high school credit-by-examination test in Spanish I were addressed in a study of the proposed adoption of the Level-1 1988 National Spanish Examination (NSE) and a 20-item supplement written by S. Segal that required students to write one-word answers. The NSE, sponsored by the…

A project was conducted to develop a model for evaluating placement testing in the North Carolina System of Community Colleges. Researchers at Central Piedmont Community College conducted a longitudinal study of students' progress through the college curriculum as it related to placement test scores. The following numbers of students comprised the…

The use and validity of the tests of General Educational Development and the College-Level Examination Program, two measures by which adults with nontraditional educational backgrounds can demonstrate their previous educational achievement, are discussed. (AG)