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  2. Remedial education - Wikipedia

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    Remedial education (also known as developmental education, basic skills education, compensatory education, preparatory education, and academic upgrading) is assigned to assist students in order to achieve expected competencies in core academic skills such as literacy and numeracy.

  3. Nelson–Denny Reading Test - Wikipedia

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    The Nelson–Denny Reading Test was created in 1930 by Martin J. Nelson and Emerson Charles Denny, both of whom were on the faculty of Iowa State Teacher's College.The purpose of the test is to measure reading ability among high school and college students.

  4. Placement testing - Wikipedia

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    Placement testing is a practice that many colleges and universities use to assess college readiness and determine which classes a student should initially take. Since most two-year colleges have open, non-competitive admissions policies, many students are admitted without college-level academic qualifications.

  5. Glucocorticoid remediable aldosteronism - Wikipedia

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    The ACTH stimulation test is sometimes used to stimulate the production of aldosterone along with cortisol to determine if primary or secondary adrenal insufficiency is present. by plasma acidosis. by the stretch receptors located in the atria of the heart. by adrenoglomerulotropin, a lipid factor, obtained from pineal extracts. It selectively ...

  6. Basic writing - Wikipedia

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    The Accelerated Learning Program, developed by faculty at the Community College of Baltimore County, is a faculty-driven model that moved students assessed as needing remedial coursework into a college-credit writing course with co-requisite support in the form of class time and more intensive small group instruction.

  7. Wide Range Achievement Test - Wikipedia

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    The test most similar to the WRAT is the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT), another short, individually administered test which covers comparable material. In general the WRAT correlates very highly with the PIAT. The WRAT correlates moderately with various IQ tests, in the range of .40 to .70 for most groups and most tests.

  8. Searchers don’t expect to find Pennsylvania woman alive in ...

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    The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania has become a recovery effort after two treacherous days of digging through mud and rock produced no ...

  9. Standards of Learning - Wikipedia

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    To graduate from high school, a student only needed to pass a sixth grade level test. [1] As a result, 24-25% of new college freshmen needed remedial help. This level of literacy was unacceptable for the demands of the 21st century. The SOL set the bar higher for test-oriented education and performance-driven results.