Students are required to take a math placement test to help determine appropriate placement for their first math course at Saint Louis University. Incoming students should take the math placement test ...

1. Placement testing: Students can take placement tests in the subtest area(s) in which they score below the readiness standard or do not have ACT scores. (For example, a student who scores 19 in ...

Placement tests and auditions are scheduled over an extended period of time so that you may take more than one. Placement tests are important if you intend to continue in any of these areas at any ...

Mathematics plays a central role in winnowing opportunities for students to enter and succeed in college. In California, students can graduate from high school with just two years of math, including a ...

College readiness is getting examined like never before. As tricky as it is to define exactly what “college readiness,” it could be even trickier to figure out how to assess such readiness. Colleges ...

Imagine you’re 16. You’ve just passed your California driver’s test, and you’re lining up to get what you think will be your license. Instead, you’re presented with a form telling you that, though you ...

Susan Headden had an important article in the September/October issue of the Monthly running down the problem with community colleges’ high-stakes placement tests, which often wrongly assign students ...

Research released earlier this year found that commonly used placement tests fail to adequately determine whether incoming college students need remedial coursework. Yet most colleges rely exclusively ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State and other Cal State students who do not score high enough on entry level math and English placement tests must take remedial courses in the summer, or fall, but ...

ACT has announced it will phase out using its Compass placement tests, citing declining use and research questioning their predictive value. Officials from the Iowa City, Iowa-based testing company ...

If you have previous language experience and plan to continue your modern language studies at Michigan Tech, you must take the German, or Spanish placement test. Beginning students with no previous ...