This survey, administered in March 1978, gathered data about current testing practices among post-secondary educational institutions in the state of Washington. The data concern the admission and placement of students who have had little or no post-secondary education. Data are presented in tables under the following headings: (1)…

This taxonomy is designed to be used by teachers who are preparing New York state students to take the Tests of General Educational Development (GED). The skills included in this taxonomy are representative of those skills which must be mastered in order to pass the reading skills test of the current six-hour GED. Educational objectives in the…

THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION PROGRAM (CPE) WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO OPEN UP THE STATE'S EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO THOSE WHO HAD ACQUIRED COLLEGE-LEVEL KNOWLEDGE IN WAYS OTHER THAN THROUGH REGULAR CLASSROOM ATTENDANCE. FACULTY MEMBERS OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN NEW YORK STATE, WORKING IN…

The claim that using the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) English General Examinations in lieu of regular English composition courses contributes to lowering of the quality of higher education was investigated by determining whether the level of achievement in the CLEP English Examination was related either to the frequency in which…

This is a book to help women who are thinking about entering or returning to college after spending several years as housewives and/or volunteers in their communities. The descriptive materials included will tell in general terms how the process of accrediting homemaking and volunteer experience might work: the skills that might be learned from…

Information on Florida public education student acceleration programs is contained in this 1974 report to the legislature, compiled by the Florida State Department of Education. There are six means used in Florida schools to fulfill the legislative mandate to provide time-shortened educational programs at all levels of the educational system: (1)…

This manual lists regulations and practices governing credit procedures at Los Angeles City College (California). Grading practices and record updating procedures are covered, including credit by examination, credit/no credit grading, credit on early military withdrawal, course repetition, course duplication, incompletes, and credit transfer. The…

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…

The New York State High School Equivalency Testing Program is for adult residents of the state who have not completed their high school education in the regular manner. An adult who obtains satisfactory scores on the High School Level tests of General Educational Development (GED) Tests is eligible to receive a New York State high school…

Under the subject contract, a program was undertaken with the object of identifying the effectiveness of equivalent response learning techniques in the human learning process, with special attention to the potentialities for training and retraining of unemployed youths, older workers, and disadvantaged sections of the population. The experiment…

The 1965 meeting of the Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with change in education. The following speeches were presented: (1) "The Winds of Change in Mathematics Education with a Discussion of Some of the Stronger Gusts" by Sheldon S. Myers; (2) "Articulation Problems in California Foreign Language Instruction" by Kai-yu Hsu;…

Growth of the Army Pre-discharge Education Program (PREP) has been a slow and cumbersome process since Public Law 91-219 was passed in 1970. The Academy for Educational Development visited 12 major Army installations in the United States and made 22 recommendations for improving the PREP in six major areas: i.e., technology, evaluation and…

This paper briefly summarizes the validation and implementation of three CLEP examinations (humanities, social science/history, and natural sciences) that complement the placement and proficiency system of the University of Illinois. Three groups of juniors in fall 1971 who had completed specific distributional sequences that had satisfied general…

This report identifies major issues associated with licensure, certification, and other qualifications for practice or employment of health personnel. Chapters are: (1) Credentialing and the Public Interest, (2) An Overview of Health Personnel Credentialing, (3) The Organizational Setting of Licensure, (4) The Disciplinary Function of State…

The advanced typewriting course (for college students) effectively provided for individual differences through the use of proficiency tests, pretests, learning assignment units at three student-selected levels, timed tests, and individual pacing. (MS)