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Download full textHarmston, Matt – ACT, Inc., 2020
Out of over 1.9 million students in the 2018 ACT-tested graduating class, 44% took the full ACT® test at least twice in hopes of improving their scores. Camara and Allen (2017) support this practice, confirming that factors such as time in the classroom between test administrations are associated with increases in ACT Composite scores from the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Repetition, Scores, Probability
Walton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked with many important life outcomes, including academic performance, performance on standardized college entrance exams, and college enrollment, although research on enrollment is limited. In this report, the authors present data points from a study that evaluated test-criterion validity…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, College Attendance, Postsecondary Education
Allen, Jeff; Radunzel, Justine; Moore, Joann – ACT, Inc., 2017
The ACT College Readiness Benchmarks are the ACT scores associated with a 50% chance of earning a B or higher grade in selected first-year credit-bearing courses at a typical postsecondary institution. The Benchmarks were established by linking ACT test scores with grades in first-year college courses from the same subject area. Benchmarks were…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Probability, Success, Benchmarking
