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Download full textJames Riddlesperger – ACT Education Corp., 2025
This brief explores how the growth of school-day testing has changed the overall population of annual ACT testers to be more representative of all students; it also highlights key insights from school-day testing programs nationwide.
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Scheduling, State Programs
Education Commission of the States, 2021
School vouchers are state-funded programs--often called scholarship programs--that allow students to use public monies to attend a private school. The state provides a set amount of money, typically based on the state's per-pupil amount, for private school tuition. There are currently 27 voucher programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia.…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Programs, Scholarships, School Choice
Education Commission of the States, 2021
School vouchers are state-funded programs--often called scholarship programs--that allow students to use public monies to attend a private school. The state provides a set amount of money, typically based on the state's per-pupil amount, for private school tuition. There are currently 27 voucher programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia.…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Programs, Scholarships, School Choice
Mellor, Lynn; Stoker, Ginger; Muhisani, Helen – American Institutes for Research, 2017
In June 2013, the 83rd Texas Legislature passed House Bill (HB) 5, which established a new high school program--the Foundation High School Program. The new high school graduation program was required for all entering Grade 9 students in all Texas public school districts in 2014-15. The Foundation High School Program was designed to give students…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Graduation Requirements, State Policy, Educational Policy
Finch, John M. – 1975
The Fall, 1974 South Carolina Statewide Testing Program was administered to nearly all of South Carolina's fourth and seventh grade students and a sample of ninth and eleventh grade students participated in the testing program. There were 49,068 fourth graders, about 98 percent, and 53,662 seventh graders, about 99 percent, tested. A…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing
Thompson, Sandra J.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Clapper, Ann T. – Educational Policy Reform Research Institute, 2005
Many students with disabilities need to use accommodations to meaningfully access instruction and to be appropriately assessed. During the past decade, the use of assessment accommodations has dramatically increased the participation rates of students with disabilities in statewide testing. Assessment accommodations can be defined as "changes…
Descriptors: Testing, Disabilities, Educational Change, Accountability
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1970
The Kentucky state plan for the collection of data concerning the cognitive, affective and pscyhomotor needs of school children is discussed. The plan entails: (1) identification of the needs of learners to be served, (2) determination of the criticality of the learner needs that are identified by applying judgmental values, (3) establishment of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
