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Direct linkThi My Hang Nguyen; Peter Gu; Averil Coxhead – Language Testing, 2024
Despite extensive research on assessing collocational knowledge, valid measures of academic collocations remain elusive. With the present study, we employ an argument-based approach to validate two Academic Collocation Tests (ACTs) that assess the ability to recognize and produce academic collocations (i.e., two-word units such as "key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language)
Bettinger, Eric P.; Evans, Brent J.; Pope, Devin G. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
Colleges rely on the ACT exam in their admission decisions to increase their ability to differentiate between students likely to succeed and those that have a high risk of under-performing and dropping out. We show that two of the four sub tests of the ACT, English and Mathematics, are highly predictive of positive college outcomes while the other…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Language Tests, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests
Halper, Elizabeth Blaisdell – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Three mental rotation tasks, the Card Rotation Task (CRT), the Vandenberg Mental Rotation Test (VMRT), and the Money Road-Map of Direction Sense (MRM), were administered to 60 deaf students from Gallaudet University to determine if mental rotation was predictive of scores on the ACT English or Math subtests. Other predictor variables, such as…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Visualization, Spatial Ability
Bochner, Joseph H.; Walter, Gerard G. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate alternative methods for evaluating deaf students' readiness to meet the English language and literacy demands of postsecondary educational programs. In the first part of the study, scores obtained by a large sample of deaf students on the ACT Assessment (ACT Composite score and scores on the ACT English…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Deafness, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
