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Texas Education Agency, Austin. Office of Policy Analysis and Evaluation. – 1995
This annual report presents results from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of the College Board's Admissions Testing Program and the American College Testing (ACT) Program's original and enhanced ACT assessment for prior year graduating seniors. The last decade had brought some recovery over the decline of the previous 10 years in both Texas and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1996
This annual report presents Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) Program results for Texas for the 1993-94 graduating class. The last decade brought some recovery over the previous decade's decline in both Texas and national SAT averages, with relatively more improvement in Texas within the last 8 years. The average…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1999
This report presents Texas results for the 1997-98 graduating class for both the College Board's SAT I: Reasoning Test (SAT) and the ACT Assessment. In 1998, numbers of both SAT I- and ACT-tested graduates were up from the previous year. The highest number of Texas high school graduates ever took one of the two examinations. The last decade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1997
This annual report presents results from the College Board's new SAT I: Reasoning Test (Formerly the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT) and the American College Testing Program's Enhanced ACT Assessment for 1994-1995 graduating seniors. The last decade showed some recovery over the previous decade's decline in both Texas and national SAT/SAT I…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates

Lutkus, Anthony D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1985
New Jersey's statewide testing program demonstrates that systematic data collection and reporting can have a major impact on both understanding the gap between college expectations and high school preparation and on the college and pre-college efforts to close that gap. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Competency Based Education

Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Policy Planning and Evaluation. – 1994
Since 1989 the Texas Education Agency has reported selected results from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of the College Board and the American College Testing Program's original and Enhanced ACT Assessment for prior year graduating seniors. This fifth annual report presents these data for the 1991-92 graduating class. Texas statewide and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Trends, High School Graduates
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1998
This report provides information on student performance at the state, regional, and school system levels for students in the classes of 1998-2002 for 117 public school systems and 35 charter schools. The class of 1998 was the first North Carolina class required by the State Board of Education to meet a higher competency standard in the areas of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Ethnicity, High School Graduates
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 1989
The Iowa Norming Study determined how well graduating high school seniors (N=722) performed on the revised 1988 Tests of General Educational Development (GED), providing the data to describe and evaluate the score requirements for GED Test candidates in terms of the percentage of Iowa high school graduates a GED Test candidate must exceed to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cutting Scores, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
Archer, Edith L.; Dresden, Judith H. – 1986
Students failing to master minimum competency tests are categorized as dropouts in this description of the results of and remediation efforts for the statewide Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) Testing Program. TEAMS assesses minimum competency in basic skills at grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11-12 exit level. The first…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Dropout Prevention
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1994
This second statewide School Performance Report offers a snapshot of public education in Wisconsin during the 1992-93 school year. District-collected data make up the School Climate section, providing information on enrollment, attendance, suspensions, expulsions, retentions, dropouts, graduation and later education, and extracurricular and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Attendance, Dropouts
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Office of Educational Accountability. – 1984
This annual report is a collection of statistical information describing some of the more important characteristics of individual schools in the Dade County Public School system. A profile sheet for each individual school provides statistics on school staff, and student characteristics, as well as a summary of student achievement information.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attendance Patterns, Class Size
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1994
This brochure provides educators, statisticians, the press, the public, and other interested parties with selected facts and figures about education in Alaska. Brief tables give: (1) general district and school information for Alaska's 54 public school districts and its private schools; (2) student information, including enrollment and graduates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Boarding Schools, College Entrance Examinations