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Download full textHansen, Janet – 1993
Students who take the National Education Development Test (NEDT) receive predictions of their test score range for college entrance examinations including the American College Testing Program (ACT). This study was undertaken to investigate the correlation between scores on the NEDT and the ACT. Sixty female students were selected from the junior…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1991
This user handbook includes four main sections: (1) components of the American College Testing (ACT) Program Assessment; (2) ACT Assessment Reports and Data Services; (3) using ACT student data; and (4) ACT assessment participation. The components described are the four tests of educational development, the High School Course/Grade Information…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Evaluation Utilization, High School Students, High Schools
Noble, Julie – 1985
A study examined whether ACT subtest scores can be used to predict reading skills, as measured by the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, with a degree of accuracy that would support their use as a screening device for college placement. ACT test scores of 2,431 students were used to predict Form C Nelson-Denny raw scores. ACT test scores from 3,016…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Snyder, Vivian; Elmore, Patricia B. – 1983
The sample for this study included 496 students admitted to a large midwestern university through the special admissions program. Validity coefficients of the Descriptive Tests of Language Skills (DTLS) subtests, the Academic Tests of the ACT Assessment Program (ACT), and high school percentile rank were calculated with cumulative grade point…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations, Developmental Studies Programs
Peer reviewedBeecher, Mark; Fischer, Lane – Journal of College Admission, 1999
Surveys college freshmen about different types of high school coursework and their relationship to academic aptitude and college success. Possible predictors of college success considered are the number of "academic,""aesthetic," and "practical" course credits, as well as high school grade point average, American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aesthetic Education, College Freshmen
Sawyer, Richard; Maxey, E. James – 1979
The validity of prediction equations based on American College Testing (ACT) Program test scores and high school grades is investigated. Presented are separate results for prediction equations based on ACT scores only, on high school grades only, and on both kinds of prediction jointly. Also included is a discussion of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Davidson, Sidney H., Jr. – 1974
The principal objective of this five-year longitudinal study was to determine the efficacy of employing the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and the American College Testing (ACT) program scores in designing a predictive model for identifying entering community college freshmen students' propensity to fall into one of three categories:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Perry, Dallis K. – 1970
The evaluation of the Minnesota College Statewide Testing Program was based on analysis of the validities of statewide and national tests for predicting freshman grades in Minnesota colleges, on interviews with directors of admission and deans of students in Minnesota colleges, and on discussions with regional gatherings of Minnesota high school…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Pedrini, Bonnie C.; Pedrini, D. T.
The purposes of this study were to determine (1) the usefulness of ACT composite scores in assessing and predicting achievement and attrition of disadvantaged and regular freshmen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha during the 1972-73 academic year, and (2) the effectiveness of a special program in keeping low income students in school during…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, College Students
Zarate, Narcisa – 1976
Factors which relate to academic success for university freshmen were investigated. Objectives were to: determine which of six independent variables were most highly related to and predictive of a 2.0 (C) cumulative grade point average (GPA), the dependent variable, for two consecutive quarters; determine which combination of factors could most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
