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ACT – formerly American College Testing Program or American College Test. Advanced Placement (AP). CLT – Classic Learning Test. THEA – Texas Higher Education Assessment. GED – HSE or High School Diploma Equivalent; GED, HiSET or TASC brand of tests, depending on the State. PERT – Replaced Accuplacer as the standard college placement ...
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.
Established in 1965 as Florida Junior College, the institution was renamed Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) in 1986. In 2009, in response to a shortage of four-year colleges, the Florida Legislature created the Florida College System, allowing some community colleges to become "state colleges" and offer bachelor degree programs.
In June 2010, Florida colleges administered over 10,000 pilot exams populated with the newly created test items. The data from the pilot was then used to build the PERT item bank. On October 25, 2010, the PERT went live. Each college in the Florida College System is now in the process of transitioning to it as their primary placement assessment ...
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); State achievement tests are standardized tests.These may be required in American public schools for the schools to receive federal funding, according to the US Public Law 107-110 originally passed as Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and currently authorized as Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015.
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The College Football Playoff bracket is finally set and Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman react to the final rankings and share what things the committee got right and which were wrong.
The most serious charge against the man accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO in broad daylight last week on a Manhattan sidewalk is murder in the second degree. Given the image of the ...