A study compared General Equivalency Development (GED) program completion and Adult Performance Level (APL) attainment in West Virginia. During the study, 97 GED program participants, who were not exposed to APL instruction or materials, completed the APL survey either just before or immediately after taking the GED examination. Seventy-seven of…

Analyzes the social and economic factors which in a two- or three-year period moved the education of older students, awarding credit by examination, off-campus study, and nonresidential degree programs from a nether world of low status and funding. Notes positive benefits but warns against uncritical acceptance of this latest vogue. (JT)

The Regents External Degree is a New York State program offering a college degree to individuals, whether by earned college credit or knowledge acquired in other experience areas. The external degree and the College Proficiency Examinations are administered by the University of the State of New York, which has no campus or courses but accepts…

This publication is intended to do two things: reinforce reading skills essential to interpreting the exercises in the social studies, sciences, and mathematics sections of the test of General Educational Development (GED) and to provide students practice in interpreting passages written at a level of difficulty similar to the difficulty of the…

In January 1974, a sample of Florida A and M University's freshmen took and "passed" one or more of the five general tests in the College-Level Examination Program. A followup study was made of these subjects to: (1) determine how well these persons have done in the area(s) in which they have been advanced to the 200 level in…

Students in intensive two-year college accounting programs often encounter difficulties in trying to transfer to four-year college accounting programs. Courses such as auditing and taxation, which according to American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) standards, should be taken in the third or fourth year of a four-year…

Ways now exist for medical laboratory workers to advance up the educational career ladder, gaining credit for prior training and/or experience. A total of 369 Certified Medical Laboratory Assistant Schools, colleges with Associate Degree Medical Laboratory Technicians programs, schools of Medical Technology, and colleges with baccalaureate Medical…

This booklet is designed to enable New York State residents lacking a complete high school education to apply for and obtain a state equivalency diploma. It includes eligibility requirements, application procedures, score requirements, descriptions of the four General Educational Development (GED) tests, how to prepare for the GED tests,…

This Conference was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, the Gulbenkian Foundation, Inc., United Merchants and Manufacturers, The Hispanic Society of America, Phi Lambda Beta (the Portuguese National Honor Fraternity), and Vanderbilt University. Individual participants from specified regional nuclei of interest met for introductory plenary…

The study established a profile of the GED High School Equivalency Certificate holder prior to the GED tests and ascertained what changes, if any, occurred after individuals received the certificate. A questionnaire was answered by males who had received their GED certificates during the years of 1964, 1965, or 1966. Findings included the…

This book is designed to help individuals prepare for the Writing Skills Test, which is the first of five tests that make up the General Educational Development (GED) Test battery. The introduction offers a detailed description of the content, format, and scoring of the GED test, focusing on the Writing Skills Test, and a descriptive outline of…

Discusses the pros and cons of English proficiency testing in journalism education, noting that such equivalency tests do not always indicate journalism student writing potential. (RL)

The Proficiency Examination Program (PEP) of the American College Testing Program is used to place diploma nurses into the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at an upper-division university. This study found PEP tests were valid for this purpose by two criteria: academic success and retention. (Author/BS)

The feasability of using the College Qualification Test (CQT) to predict scores on the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) is supported by a multiple regression analysis conducted among freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Author)