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Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 2001
The participation and performance of 1999-2000 public school graduates in Texas on the College Board's SAT I: Reasoning Test and the ACT, Inc., ACT Assessment were investigated, along with results from other states and the United States. The highest combined number of Texas public school graduates ever, 120,077 or 62.2%, took either the SAT I or…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Seniors, High Schools, Public Schools
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 2000
This table contains average composite scores by state for high school graduates who took the ACT Assessment in 2000. For each state the percentage of graduates taking the ACT Assessment and the average composite score are given, with the same information for those who completed the recommended core curriculum and those who did not, as well as for…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Graduates, High Schools, Scores
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Office of Policy Planning and Research. – 2000
The participation and performance of 1998-1999 public school graduates in Texas on the College Board's SAT I: Reasoning Test and the ACT Inc. ACT Assessment were studied and compared to results from other states and the United States as a whole. The highest combined number of Texas public school graduates ever (113,807 or 61.8%) took either the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Seniors, High Schools, Public Schools
Schiel, Jeff – 1998
This report examines both the substantiveness and statistical significance of differences between mean American College Testing (ACT) Program assessment scale scores. The first part of the report describes the development and results of a method for interpreting the substantiveness of mean differences in terms of test items correctly answered. For…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, High Schools, Scores
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City. – 1997
The Oklahoma State Board of Education and the State Regents for Higher Education produce an annual report of information from the Oklahoma Educational Indicators Program. This document, part of that effort, is a report on the mean American College Testing program (ACT) scores of Oklahoma high school seniors. The report includes ACT test takers who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Indicators, High School Graduates
Hackmann, Donald G.; Hecht, Janet E.; Harmston, Matt T.; Pliska, Ann-Maureen; Ziomek, Robert L. – 2001
This study examined the relationship between school scheduling format and average composite scores on the ACT Assessment after controlling for lifestyle factors, gender, school enrollment levels, number of examinees, and years under the scheduling model. The participants were 38,089 high schools seniors in 568 public high schools in Iowa and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Block Scheduling, College Entrance Examinations, High School Seniors
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1998
A chart presents average composite scores on the ACT Assessment by state for 1998 ACT-tested graduates. The states are listed in alphabetical order, with the percentage of total graduates tested and the average composite score given for each state. Also included are the average scores of students who have completed the recommended core high school…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students), High School Graduates
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1999
A chart presents average composite scores on the ACT Assessment by state for 1999 ACT-tested high school graduates. The states are listed in alphabetical order, with the percentage of total graduates tested and the average composite score listed for each state. Also included are the average scores of students who completed the recommended high…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students), High School Graduates
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1998
Results are reported for South Carolina students for the four tests of the American College Test (ACT) (English, mathematics, reading, and science reasoning) and the ACT composite. In 1998, the average composite score for the 995,039 graduating seniors in the United States was 21.0. In South Carolina, for the 5,385 students who took the ACT, the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Core Curriculum, High School Seniors, High Schools
Schoen, Harold L.; Cebulla, Kristin J.; Winsor, Matthew S. – 2001
The level of preparation for college entrance tests, university mathematics placement tests, and beginning college mathematics courses was studied for students who completed the Standards-oriented curriculum "Contemporary Mathematics in Context" (A. Coxford, J. Fey, C. Hirsch, H. Schoen, E. Hart, B. Keller, and A. Watkins, 2001), the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Curriculum
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 2000
This news release reports that college-bound high school students in 2000 have maintained the American College Testing Program (ACT) score level reached in the last years of the 1990s. Data show the composite ACT score to be 21 (on the scale of 1-36) for the fourth consecutive year. A record number of 1,065,138 members of the high school class of…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students), High School Students
Lanier, Charles Wood – 1994
This paper is concerned with typical changes in scores on the American College Testing Program Assessment (ACT) between students' first and second testing. Analyses were based on data from a sample of students who tested twice between 1989 and 1992. Scores of twice-tested females, males, blacks, whites, and students who were tested on particular…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Course Selection (Students)
PDF pending restorationTexas Education Agency, Austin. Office of Policy Planning and Research. – 1998
Results for 1996-97 graduating seniors in Texas are reported from the College Board's Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) I: Reasoning Test and from the American College Testing, Inc. (Enhanced) ACT Assessment. Texas statewide, district, and campus results are displayed along with aggregate results from the United States and other states. Included…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, High School Seniors
PDF pending restorationTexas Education Agency, Austin. Office of Policy Planning and Research. – 1997
Results for 1995-96 graduating seniors in Texas are reported from the College Board's Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) I: Reasoning Test and from the American College Testing, Inc. (Enhanced) ACT Assessment. Texas statewide, district, and campus results are displayed along with aggregate results from the United States and other states. Included…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, High School Seniors
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1997
This report provides information about the performance of 1997 graduating seniors nationwide who took the American College Testing Program (ACT) Assessment as sophomores, juniors, or seniors. These students may not be representative of the total population of graduating seniors at a given school, depending on patterns of students taking the ACT.…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Core Curriculum, Ethnic Groups
