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Sullivan, Patrick; Nielsen, David – College English, 2013
Community colleges have been engaged for the last sixty years in providing open access to public higher education to anyone with a high school diploma. Recently, disappointing success rates for developmental students have driven some colleges to reduce or restrict access to college based on standardized test scores. The operative phrase in most of…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Achievement Rating, Transitional Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
Carroll, John B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Evaluates "The Reading Report Card" and application of Reading Proficiency Scale to that report with 1984-85 data on reading ability in adults between ages 21 and 25. Also discusses reading trends in relation to different segments of population and in terms of where decreases and increases in reading ability have occurred between 1974…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adult Literacy, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged
Kulieke, Marilynn J.; And Others – 1982
Research on the quality of foreign medical graduates (FMG) in terms of their competence or manifest abilities as measured by examinations, and their performance or actual behavior is briefly reviewed. In addition, some of the methodological problems that make research on foreign medical graduates difficult to interpret are critiqued, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Competence, Data Analysis