Sentences with phrase «placement exams»

We'd also encourage states to look at the success of students in taking and passing college placement exams.

The college used to offer remedial classes to adults who scored at an eighth - grade level or below in reading and math on placement exams.

One promising approach involves administering placement exams earlier, when students are in 9th or 10th grade.

My performance on the barrage of entrance and placement exams demonstrated that I was performing well above the second - grade level.

High school students continue to take course placement exams, subject - area finals, exit exams, and college entrance tests.

This national test is given to give students training for careers a testing option, apart from college placement exams.

From 2008 to 2010, Hillsborough County had the largest annual increase in advanced placement exam passing grades of any district in the United States.

Cal State plans to drop placement exams in math and English as well as the noncredit remedial courses that more than 25,000 freshmen have been required to take each fall — a radical move away from the way public universities traditionally support students who come to college less prepared than their peers.

To improve preparation among students, the survey makes several recommendations, including developing a more comprehensive communication strategy that conveys the significance of placement exams; helping students understand what to expect; and proactively offering better, more comprehensive test preparation materials.

Eleventh graders who met the standards were notified that they would automatically be placed into credit - bearing courses, without the need to take an additional placement exam, if they enrolled in a CSU campus.

Prerequisite: Passing grade in Foundation coursework or placement determined by Rasmussen College entrance placement exam score

If students» scores are high enough, or they have completed an appropriate course with a C or better, or made a passing score on an AP or CLEP exam, or pass the approved online math placement exam with an 80 percent or higher, they qualify for the first math course required for their major.

Community colleges give placement exams to decide whether incoming students need remediation, but in some instances those exams test things that were never taught in high school.

Zimpher said the task force will study the effectiveness of the various placement exams — as well as Regents exams — in determining readiness.

In Ohio, all public colleges administer remediation placement exams to incoming freshmen, though the institutions are free to select the tests and cut - off values used to assess need for remediation.

Do high stakes placement exams predict college success?

All this was not even an idea when Khan, at his wedding in New Jersey in 2004, learned that his 12 - year - old cousin Nadia had done poorly on a math - placement exam back in Louisiana and would not be in a class for more - proficient students.

California's colleges and universities add two admissions tests (SAT I and II); and the University of California, California State University, and the community colleges use three different placement exams.

The Coordinating Board has advised using a common placement exam, and aligning it with expectations for college readiness being propagated in high schools.

The ASSET exam was built as an associate's degree placement exam to determine the courses that are most appropriate for each incoming student.

HB 971 (Chandler - 105th) Allows home study and private school students to take the PSAT / NMSQT and advanced placement exams through a local school system.

Many colleges allow students to «place out of» lower level courses by scoring high on placement exams, such as Advanced Placement (AP), CLEP or DSSTs.

A gifted student, he scored high on advanced placement exams, allowing him to enter Harvard with sophomore standing.

Rather than requiring an additional placement exam, colleges could use student scores on tests that they have already taken, such as Common Core tests like Smarter Balanced and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).

Students must either demonstrate mastery of the subject matter in Foundation Courses through a Rasmussen College entrance placement exam or by successful completion of Foundation Courses.

Students who tested «not ready» could take it, too, although, regardless how they did in the course, they would still have to take a CSU math placement exam to determine whether they should take a developmental summer course, said Ken O'Donnell, a senior administrator in the CSU chancellor's office.

Previously, Daniel served as founding director of At Home in College, a CUNY program that aligns senior year coursework with the skills required for success on college placement exams and in first - year college courses, and as director of College Now at Hostos Community College.

We had been intending that the boys would go to local schools in the Autumn, when Daniel reaches secondary school age, so I was trying to find out when he would need to take the placement exam, what the costs would be, and so on.

A placement exam channels those with «really fundamental issues of grammar and sentence construction» into a course in basic composition.

Daric seizes the opportunity to propose that he and Ben go into business, creating and selling detailed cheat sheets for school tests and placement exams.

We know that placement exams aren't perfect, and some kids who could do credit - bearing work are being put into remediation, where they get demoralized.

There will always be people who think that statistics and probability are more important than arithmetic and algebra, despite the fact that you can't do statistics and probability without arithmetic and algebra and that you will never see a question about statistics or probability on a college placement exam, thus making statistics and probability irrelevant for college preparation.

For juniors, the only incentive to take the test was the chance to skip a placement exam for Washington state colleges and universities if they scored high enough.

She said she knows students who plan to attend college in Washington who saw the advantage of taking the state test instead of a placement exam later.

· Fees for nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, advanced placement exams, or any exam related to post-secondary admissions;

Michael Block, chief executive of BASIS, said the charter - school group monitors student results on advanced - placement exams and their college readiness.

Students also participated in the College Focus program this summer at Medgar Evers College to help them pass their college placement exam.

Cal State drops its requirements for placement exams, remedial classes in math and English for freshmen.

But some argue that writing longhand could help in placement exams.

We would never teach students the entirety of calculus in a month and then penalize schools when they fail to pass the advanced placement exam.

The school is producing more National Merit honorees than ever before and, in the past five years, has doubled the number of students taking and passing advanced placement exams, even as the percentages of low - income students, minority students, and English language learners have increased.

Alaska study finds high school GPA a better predictor of ability to pass college English and math than placement exams or SAT scores

A number of recent state legislative efforts highlight the importance of course rigor in preparing students for college and beyond.1 In addition, the State Board of Education has approved a preliminary college and career readiness indicator, which leans heavily on student participation and performance in rigorous courses, such as a — g courses, advanced placement exams, International Baccalaureate courses, and dual enrollment in high school and college courses.2

The survey suggests «four interconnected reasons» students fail to prepare for placement exams:

In addition, HumRRO has also conducted convergent validity studies with Pennsylvania's assessment and college placement exams.

In addition, we have conducted convergent validity studies with Pennsylvania's assessment and college placement exams.