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ERIC Number: ED468161
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 191
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) Summary of TASP/Alternative Test (TASP/A) Results: Academic Year, 1999-2000.
Texas State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin.
This report provides a summary of test results from the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP), including alternative tests taken for TASP purposes as authorized by state law, by student race/ethnicity for academic year 1999-2000. The results are provided for each Texas public university and community or technical college and for the entire state. In 1999-2000, 220,363 TASP Tests were given to 181,173 students. This report includes only students enrolled at a Texas public college or university for the first time in 1999-2000. Of these students, 103,206 took the TASP on an initial attempt, 58,133 took an alternative test on an initial attempt, 56,067 were exempt based on other test scores, and 43,029 took the TASP on a subsequent attempt. An analysis of TASP exemptions granted to students because of high Scholastic Assessment Test, ACT Assessment of Texas Assessment of Academic Skills scores begins the report. This is followed by a description of the tests used by each institution during the academic year. The remaining tables show initial TASP Test and alternative test pass rates, as well as TASP retake pass rates, by institution and test route. Initial pass rates show that more students successfully completed the writing test (69.3%) than successfully completed the reading test (61.4%) or the mathematics test (42.0%). (Contains results for 61 tests.) (SLD)
For full text: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/cfbin/ ArchFetch.cfm?DocID=0451&Format=PDF.
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Texas State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin.
Identifiers - Location: Texas
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Texas Assessment of Academic Skills
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A