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Download full textGao, Rui; He, Wei; Ruan, Chunyi – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
In this study, we investigated whether preequating results agree with equating results that are based on observed operational data (postequating) for a college placement program. Specifically, we examined the degree to which item response theory (IRT) true score preequating results agreed with those from IRT true score postequating and from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Student Placement, Item Response Theory, True Scores
Ackerman, Philip L. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
This report reviews a theoretically inspired empirical investigation of individual differences in knowledge, abilities, and nonability traits as part of an ongoing effort to better understand adult intellectual development and to develop more accurate measures of adult intelligence. Twenty Knowledge Scales were constructed, drawing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Adult Development, Intellectual Development, Individual Differences
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City. – 1996
A study investigated bachelor's degree completion times and related factors for students in Oklahoma higher education institutions. Data were drawn from survey information on 1,399 college freshmen in 1995 and cohort data on the entire freshman population of 37,059 in 1988. Analyses focus on comparison of students' expected and actual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Advanced Placement, Age Differences
Moughamian, Henry; And Others – 1971
A student's age, sex, aspiration, and ability were related to successful performance (50th percentile or higher) on the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) general examinations. Previous college credits and attendance status, as measured, did not seem to be important factors. Of the variables investigated, ability, as measured by the American…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Aspiration, Age, College Credits
Clark, Renee Smith – 1988
Seven sample age subgroups were selected from official score reports from the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) to determine age cohort performance on the CLEP English Composition examination. The 154 CLEP English Composition score reports received by the Community College of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) between July 1983 and June 1985…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Age Groups, College English
Mickelson, Jon E.; Keene, John M., Jr. – 1984
Each year thousands of students entering college participate in credit by examination programs in an effort to qualify for exemption and in many cases college credit for general education core requirements. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between students who participate in a credit by examination program (in this case…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Core Curriculum, Discriminant Analysis
