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American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2020
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) is developing guidance on a range of topics in support of institutions of higher education need to adjust, review and consider many of their practices in light of the impact of COVID-19 on normal operations. To help develop this guidance and the members understanding of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Crisis Management, Grading, Academic Records
Ladd, Helen F.; Lauen, Douglas L. – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2009
Although the Federal No Child Left Behind program judges the effectiveness of schools based on their students' achievement status, many policy analysts argue that schools should be measured, instead, by their students' achievement growth. Using a ten-year student-level panel data set from North Carolina, the authors examine how school-specific…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Achievement Gains, Accountability, Educational Policy
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Knight, Peter; Yorke, Mantz – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
This paper concentrates on the public and formal processes of reporting achievement. The topic is significant because employers, managers and graduate schools all use warrants when making selection and governance decisions. Should those warrants turn out to have, as we argue, local meanings, then selection and governance practices, amongst others,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
Kramer, Arthur; LaMar, Ansley W. – 1999
A study explicated the process used to assess the general education component of the undergraduate curriculum at a public urban university with about 6,000 undergraduates. Emphasis was placed on the components of the methodology that provided data useful for suggesting changes to the program and the aspects of the process that did not yield viable…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Administrators, College Faculty, Curriculum
New York State Univ. System, Albany. – 1979
A summary of a conference sponsored by the University of the State of New York to disseminate the results of the 1976-77 follow-up study of the Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction is presented. Representatives from 10 states and various higher education associations were present. The conference focused on the following topics: (1) the…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Advanced Placement, College Credits, Courses
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1984
This guide intended for local school districts discusses the implementation of New Jersey's Special Review Assessment (SRA) process which provides high school students with the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of basic skills by an assessment method other than the statewide graduation test. The process is required for eleventh graders who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Alternative Assessment, Educational Diagnosis