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Assessing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education: An Overview of Existing Research and Assessments with Recommendations for Next-Generation Assessment. Research Report. ETS RR-14-22
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Roohr, Katrina Crotts; Graf, Edith Aurora; Liu, Ou Lydia – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
Quantitative literacy has been recognized as an important skill in the higher education and workforce communities, focusing on problem solving, reasoning, and real-world application. As a result, there is a need by various stakeholders in higher education and workforce communities to evaluate whether college students receive sufficient training on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Numeracy
Institutional Use of Cutoff Scores for the College-Level Examination Program.
Flaherty, Jane F. – 1981
The history and institutional use of cutoff scores is reviewed, emphasizing the changes in these scores used over the years and the rationale used in selecting cutoff scores. A brief description of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) is provided, as is background about how it works. Cutoff score recommendations of the American Council on…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cutting Scores, Educational Trends, Higher Education
Deficiencies of the CLEP Writing Examinations
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Apstein, Barbara – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, English Curriculum, English Departments
Credit by Examination Comes of Age: Implications of AP and CLEP for Colleges, Schools, and Students. Report of the Colloguium on Credit by Examination (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, March 7-9, 1979).
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1980
This book is based on a national invitational colloquium that took place in March, 1979, at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. The colloquium was sponsored by the College Board in cooperation with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) of the Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago. It afforded an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Credits, Cost Effectiveness, Educational History
That's a Very Good Question: The Economic Impact of Credit by Examination.
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Valley, John R. – 1978
Three papers--by educational economists Kurt L. Kendis, Steven J. Klees, and Alan P. Wagner--independently examine the economic impact of college credit by examination (CBE) on students, institutions, and higher educational systems. Major issues are identified and further research topics are suggested. Kendis suggests the following results of CBE:…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Bibliographies, College Credits, Cost Effectiveness
A Validity Study of the General Examinations of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP).
Losak, John – 1978
Two studies investigated the effects of earning college credits for freshman year courses--as a result of performance on the College Level Examination Program's (CLEP) General Examinations--on later academic success. These are multiple choice tests of English composition, social science, natural science, humanities, and mathematics. Both studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Community Colleges, Equivalency Tests
The Three-Year B.A.: A Wavering Idea.
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Van Gelder, Eduard – 1972
Current literature on the three-year B.A. degree is reviewed as to its history, recent background, and anticipated problems (curriculum, finance, quality, and role of community colleges). The three-year degree dates back to 1640, when it was awarded at Harvard until about 1655. Three-year B.A. degrees received new impetus during the late 19th and…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Bachelors Degrees, College Role, Colleges