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Direct linkGarruto, Patricia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
High school graduates continue to enter post-secondary education lacking in basic mathematical skills and thus not academically prepared to enroll in college-level mathematics courses (ACT, 2010). Although it can be argued that those mathematical concepts should have been mastered in grades K-12, educating those students in basic skills…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Educational Change, Academic Standards, Mathematics Education
Download full textKoffler, Stephen L.
Reflecting concern with the nationwide decline in basic skills mastery, the 1975 statewide basic skills tests of the New Jersey Educational Assessment Program (NJEAP) were used to assess the relative performance of college bound seniors. The results of a random 10% sample of the 55,000 students in college preparatory programs were compared with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, College Bound Students
Boone, Janice; And Others – 1978
The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test was administered to 42,984 freshmen entering New Jersey colleges and universities and four independent colleges in the fall of 1978 in order to assess students' specific strengths and weaknesses in reading, writing, and mathematics for placement in appropriate first-year courses. Based on test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics
Edge, Donald – 1979
Test results are summarized for the second year of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test administered to 47,725 entering freshmen in the fall of 1979. Performance is categorized into one of three groups: appears proficient in basic skills tested; demonstrates proficiency in some (but not all) of the areas tested; and demonstrates a…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, College Mathematics
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1988
The New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program was created to determine the status of basic skills preparedness of freshmen entering public colleges and universities and to offer data to help colleges place freshman students in appropriate courses. The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) is a 3-hour-and-20-minute examination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Morante, Edward A.; And Others – 1982
The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) was instituted in 1978 as a proficiency examination designed to measure the reading, writing, and mathematics skills of students entering college. In spring and summer 1982, 51,135 students at New Jersey's state and county colleges and at 10 independent colleges took the NJCBSPT. Of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, College Students, Community Colleges
New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1990
This report offers details of the results of basic skills testing of the entering freshman class in New Jersey's public colleges. Levels of proficiency in verbal skills, computation, and elementary algebra are estimated from performance on the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test. For the 48,791 students tested in the fall of 1989, 24%…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Algebra, Basic Skills, College Freshmen
Lutz, William D. – 1979
In March 1977, the New Jersey Board of Higher Education created the New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program. To direct the program, the Board created the Basic Skills Council, which was charged with developing a test in reading, writing, and mathematics for all freshmen entering all New Jersey public colleges and universities. The purpose was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLutkus, Anthony D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1985
New Jersey's statewide testing program demonstrates that systematic data collection and reporting can have a major impact on both understanding the gap between college expectations and high school preparation and on the college and pre-college efforts to close that gap. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Competency Based Education
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1986
The New Jersey Basic Skills Council seventh annual report to the Board of Higher Education looks at the status of the reading, writing, and mathematical skills of incoming freshmen and of the effectiveness of remedial programs in its public colleges and universities. A comparison is presented of students who needed and completed remediation;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Credits
PDF pending restorationNew Jersey State Office of Legislative Services, Trenton. Assembly Education Committee. – 1993
The Assembly Education Committee of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services held a hearing pursuant to Assembly Resolution 113, a proposal directing the Committee to investigate the skills testing program developed and administered to New Jersey children by the State Department of Education. The Committee was interested in the eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness
Gordon, Edmund W.; And Others – 1974
The Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program was founded and is funded by the Newark Construction Trades Training Corporation. Internally, NCTTC provides all services to trainees other than the ABE component. Specifically, it provides a recruitment function, guidance function, placement service, shop training program, and supervision of on-the-job…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Career Development
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1988
An evaluation is presented of the remedial programs in each of New Jersey's 32 public colleges and universities. The academic outcome of full-time students entering in fall 1984 is tracked over four semesters. This analysis combines measures of the colleges' administrative efficiency in testing and enrolling students in needed remedial courses,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Basic Skills, College Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
