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Direct linkChristian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Educational Researcher, 2023
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Grantee Submission, 2022
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Education Commission of the States, 2018
As a condition of receiving federal funds, the Every Student Succeeds Act requires state education agencies to implement statewide assessments in mathematics and English language arts every year in third through eighth grade and once in ninth through 12th grade. The federal law also requires a science assessment once in each of three grade spans:…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Grade 11, Grade 10
Folds, Lea D.; Tanner, C. Kenneth – Journal of Career and Technical Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to analyze the relations among socioeconomic status, highest-level mathematics course, absenteeism, student mobility and measures of work readiness of high school seniors in Georgia. Study participants were 476 high school seniors in one Georgia county. The full regression model explained 27.5% of the variance in…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Advanced Courses, Secondary School Mathematics, Attendance
