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Jeff Allen; Jay Thomas; Stacy Dreyer; Scott Johanningmeier; Dana Murano; Ty Cruce; Xin Li; Edgar Sanchez – ACT Education Corp., 2025
This report describes the process of developing and validating the enhanced ACT. The report describes the changes made to the test content and the processes by which these design decisions were implemented. The authors describe how they shared the overall scope of the enhancements, including the initial blueprints, with external expert panels,…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Test Construction
Dongmei Li; Shalini Kapoor; Ann Arthur; Chi-Yu Huang; YoungWoo Cho; Chen Qiu; Hongling Wang – ACT Education Corp., 2025
Starting in April 2025, ACT will introduce enhanced forms of the ACT® test for national online testing, with a full rollout to all paper and online test takers in national, state and district, and international test administrations by Spring 2026. ACT introduced major updates by changing the test lengths and testing times, providing more time per…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Scoring
Westrick, Paul A.; Marini, Jessica P.; Young, Linda; Ng, Helen; Shaw, Emily J. – College Board, 2023
This pilot study examines digital SAT® score relationships with first-year college performance. Results show that digital SAT scores predict college performance as well as paper and pencil SAT scores, and that digital SAT scores meaningfully improve our understanding of a student's readiness for college above high school grade point average…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scores, Career Readiness, College Readiness
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Zhang, Haiyan; Kang, Kai – International Education Studies, 2017
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Systems (SBAC) started in the 2014-2015 academic year and has been regarded by many in the field as a radical effort to improve the American English Language Art (ELA) educational standards. These two consortia, being aligned with Common…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), College Readiness
Brandt, Rusty; Bercovitz, Elizabeth; McNally, Susan; Zimmerman, Linda – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2015
A usability study was conducted by the Research and Innovation Network and Assessment Solutions Design to assess the usability of a drawing response interaction type. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) commissioned a multi-part study to determine the viability of using the drawing response interaction on…
Descriptors: Usability, Partnerships in Education, Consortia, Career Readiness
Brandt, Rusty; Bercovitz, Elizabeth; Zimmerman, Linda – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2015
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) commissioned a multi-part study to determine the viability of using the drawing response interaction on the PARCC Mathematics Assessment. This study in particular focused on students with disabilities. PARCC has over 40 interaction types on the summative assessments. Why…
Descriptors: Usability, Freehand Drawing, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Testing