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New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1990
This report offers details of the results of basic skills testing of the entering freshman class in New Jersey's public colleges. Levels of proficiency in verbal skills, computation, and elementary algebra are estimated from performance on the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test. For the 48,791 students tested in the fall of 1989, 24%…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Algebra, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1991
This report presents Fall, 1991 results of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Testing which tests incoming college students and evaluates collegiate remedial courses. A summary of the findings notes that freshmen recorded poorer results on every section of the test compared to 1990 results, that in verbal skills 42 percent lacked…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Download full textO'Connor, Linda – 1981
Characteristics of the fall 1980 full-time, first-time freshmen enrolled in New Jersey colleges and universities are tabulated and trends in the past five years are summarized. Highlights include the following: There was a modest decline in entering freshmen over the previous year, consistent with projections in the statewide plan. The decline was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Age, College Freshmen
Berrier, R. Michael; O'Connor, Linda – 1980
Statistics and analyses of the 1979 opening fall enrollment in New Jersey colleges and universities are presented. The overall 1.4 percent increase in New Jersey is below the national average and below the previous year's statewide increase. However, this increase is greater than in New York or Connecticut. In two-year colleges the 5.7 percent…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Demand
Ochsner, Nancy – 1980
Enrollment of full-time first-time freshmen in New Jersey colleges and universities has remained stable since 1975. Enrollment decrease was greatest at Rutgers University. Eighteen colleges were regional in their drawing power, enrolling less than 50 percent from the home county and contiguous counties but at least 85 percent from within the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Chronological Age, College Entrance Examinations
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1986
The New Jersey Basic Skills Council seventh annual report to the Board of Higher Education looks at the status of the reading, writing, and mathematical skills of incoming freshmen and of the effectiveness of remedial programs in its public colleges and universities. A comparison is presented of students who needed and completed remediation;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Credits
