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College-Level Study: What Is It? Variations in College Placement Tests and Standards in the SREB States. Issues in Higher Education, Number 22.

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Abraham, Ansely A. – 1986

A survey was conducted among 489 public colleges in the Southern Regional Education Board states to determine cutting scores for placing students into regular versus remedial college classes. Results indicated a large number and variety of tests in reading, writing, and mathematics--almost 100 combinations of 70 different tests--were used to place…

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