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Download full textHartog, Jacob; Fesler, Lily; Tabora, Brittany – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
Since 2014 the New Jersey Department of Education has offered three high school equivalency (HSE) exams for nongraduates seeking credentials: the GED, the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), and the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC). This study used data on exam takers who had been grade 8 students in a New Jersey public school between…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Grade 8, Public Schools, Individual Characteristics
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
Since 2014 New Jersey has offered three exams to demonstrate high school equivalency (HSE): the GED, the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), and the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC). The New Jersey Department of Education wants to know the characteristics of exam takers, whether passing rates vary across HSE exams, and how a recent…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Grade 8, Public Schools, Individual Characteristics
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
Since 2014 the New Jersey Department of Education has offered three high school equivalency (HSE) exams for nongraduates seeking credentials: the GED, the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), and the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC). The "Characteristics and Performance of High School Equivalency Exam Takers in New Jersey"…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Grade 8, Public Schools, Individual Characteristics
Direct linkGilbert, Paul A.; Rhodes, Scott D. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
Social support is protective for a variety of health outcomes, and individuals living outside their country of origin ("sojourners") might use social support in distinctive ways. The authors performed a confirmatory factor analysis of the 18-item Index of Sojourner Social Support (ISSS) using data obtained from 190 Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Reliability, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
Lang, Diane E.; Gómez, Diane W.; Lasser, Suzanne M. – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2009
A parent training program pilot designed and implemented to develop early literacy skills of bilingual Hispanic pre-kindergarten students is described and analyzed through a case study approach. The program incorporated parent collaboration, bilingual literacy training and accessible literary themes to improve literacy prior to kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Hispanic Americans, Pilot Projects, Early Reading
Medhanie, Amanuel; Patterson, Margaret Becker – GED Testing Service, 2009
The economic and employment outlook for individuals without a high school diploma is bleak. For many of these individuals, passing the General Educational Development (GED) Test is the first step in competing in the increasingly demanding job market. GED test-taking policies vary across test centers and jurisdictions, and have the potential to…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Program Effectiveness, Models, Correlation
