(Stockhouse) As Colleges Report More Applicants Submitting ACTⓇ Scores, ACT, Inc. and Kaplan Test Prep Launch ACTⓇ Kaplan Online Prep Live to Make Best-in-Class Live Teaching Accessible to All Students Introduction of Live, Interactive Program Supports Growing Popularity of the ACT: Survey Finds 49% of Colleges Report More Applicants Submitting ACT Scores than in Prior […]
Read More »A number of articles will stem from The College Board’s 2016 Total Group Report. These articles generally reference the following topics: SAT performance by gender, socio-economic status, SAT Math performance by gender, class, income level etc An initial review of the data suggests that not much has changed in terms of gender based average scores […]
Read More »(ACT)–Achievement levels on the ACT® test went down this year compared to last year among U.S. high school graduates, but the decline was driven by a significant increase in the number and percentage of students who took the exam. Those findings are reported in The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2016, ACT’s annual score report, […]
Read More »(Reuters) By Renee Dudley and Steve Stecklow– The maker of the SAT, America’s oldest college-entrance exam, promised to streamline its new math questions and scale back the reuse of tests, a longtime practice that has made the exam vulnerable to cheating. David Coleman, chief executive of the College Board, said the New York not-for-profit organization wants […]
Read More »(Edweek) By Jason Kazi — The latest attempt by researchers to determine the impact of educational technology investments on student achievement suggests that federal E-rate program subsidies that schools receive are unlikely to improve student test scores. This new study could fuel debates about the link between technology investments and student achievement. But several ed-tech […]
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