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New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1985
Results of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test are presented for fall 1984 entering freshmen. The test consists of an essay and four multiple choice sections: reading comprehension, sentence sense, computation, and elementary algebra. New forms of the test are developed each year. A total of 46,465 freshmen at 30 public colleges and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Algebra, Basic Skills
San Diego City Schools, CA. Planning, Research and Evaluation Div. – 1984
Spring 1984 achievement test results for court-identified, minority isolated (MI) schools in the San Diego Unified School District are reported. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) were used to measure progress in the areas of reading, language, and mathematics. Language and math scores trended upwards across grades; reading also…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing
Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1982
The California Assessment Program (CAP) is meant to be an efficient testing program limited to furnishing program-diagnostic information to state-level policymakers. During 1981-82 all 3rd-, 6th-, and 12th-grade students in the state's public schools were tested in reading, written language, and mathematics basic skills. Summary findings were that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Oriented Programs
O'Neal, Sandra – 1986
The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) battery is administered in New Mexico school districts, as part of a state mandated assessment program, to students in grades 3, 5, and 8 to measure achievement in basic skills (reading, language, and mathematics). Various types of test data are presented for use in modifying the basic instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Baltimore City Public Schools, MD. – 1981
Evaluation results of 1979-80 compensatory education programs for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children in 75 Baltimore, Maryland public and private schools are presented in this report. The program provided early learning experiences in reading, mathematics, and language for educationally disadvantaged 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds to enhance…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
San Diego City Schools, CA. Planning, Research and Evaluation Div. – 1984
This report provides a detailed summary of California Assessment Program (CAP) test results for the San Diego, California, City School District. The CAP achievement tests in reading, mathematics, written language, (written expression and spelling for twelfth graders) were administered in grades 3, 6, 8, and 12. A number of tables and appendices…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1978
This test manual presents the full results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey of 1,300 17-year-old students on performance in five major basic life skills: (1) personal finance and consumer protection; (2) health maintenance; (3) interpersonal competence; (4) family responsibility; and (5) career development. In…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Consumer Protection, Daily Living Skills
Thompson, Sandra; Thurlow, Martha; Spicuzza, Richard – 2000
The fourth statewide administration of Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests in Reading and Mathematics took place in the spring of 1999. The first administration of the statewide Test of Written Composition for 10th graders also took place in 1999. Beginning with the class of 2000, students are required to pass these tests by the time they complete…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Accountability, Basic Skills, Disabilities
Santa Barbara City Coll., CA. – 2001
This is a report on the institutional effectiveness assessment of Santa Barbara Community College (SBCC) (California) for the 2000-01 fiscal year. The report focuses on five main topics: student access, student success, human resources, fiscal resources, and physical resources. Report highlights include: (1) SBCC has shown an increase in student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Basic Skills
Seppanen, Loretta – 1991
In 1990, a follow-up study was conducted of former students from the Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Educational Development (GED) programs in Washington community colleges to assess the impact of these programs on the students. Data were gathered from the Student Management Information System and from interviews with 182 students who left…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Arkansas State Dept. of Higher Education, Little Rock. – 1989
This document reports data on full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment and student semester credit hour (SSCH) production in Arkansas' state higher education institutions for 1987-88 in 7 figures and 29 tables. Data on FTE enrollment show it rose 2 percent over the previous year, the second consecutive increase in FTE enrollment with most of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Students, Credits, Engineering Education
Arkansas State Dept. of Higher Education, Little Rock. – 1990
This publication reports full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment and student semester credit hour (SSCH) production in Arkansas' state higher education institutions for 1988-89 in 9 figures and 29 tables. Data on FTE enrollment show it rose 3.9 percent over the previous year, the third consecutive increase in FTE enrollment with most of the change…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Students, Credits, Engineering Education
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1984
The Maryland Accountability Testing Program Annual Report is a reference document on basic skills test data for grade levels three, five, and eight. The average grade equivalent scores on the California Achievement Tests (CAT) for all three grade levels in reading comprehension, language, and mathematics for the school year 1983-1984 are included.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1988
The New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program was created to determine the status of basic skills preparedness of freshmen entering public colleges and universities and to offer data to help colleges place freshman students in appropriate courses. The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) is a 3-hour-and-20-minute examination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Losak, John; Morris, Cathy – 1985
Persistence rates and College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) passing rates are the two outcome measures most often used to assess success at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC). A study was conducted to examine these two measures for comparative groups of students whose performance on the basic skills assessment measure ranged from passing no…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
