With college placement testing only a few months away, Paducah educators share their thoughts on Kentucky’s switch to SAT ...

The College Placement Test is a requirement for Charlotte High School students who wish to take dual enrollment courses. Dual enrollment classes, available through Edison Community College to students ...

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 ...

The tests used by many community colleges and universities across the nation to determine whether incoming freshmen are ready for college-level courses are often inaccurate and pose roadblocks to ...

Corrected: The original version of this story misspelled the name of Gretchen Schmidt, a program director in Boston for Jobs For the Future. College-placement tests can make or break a student’s ...

The GED will soon attempt to measure college readiness as well as being the learning equivalent of a high-school diploma, thanks to an upgrade the GED Testing Service hopes will make it a substitute ...

Do tests or high-school grades better determine whether a student is ready for college-level math and reading? For public universities and community colleges, increasingly the answer is both—or no ...

Quadratic functions are something Round Lake High School seniors have learned before, but in preparation for college math placement tests, Craig Schrader’s applied math class has been going through ...

All students are required to take at least two writing courses and at least one math course to graduate from UAB. To measure your mastery of a particular subject and determine which courses offer you ...

At CU Boulder, students have several math courses to choose from, based on their intended major. While some courses do not require a prerequisite or prior math experience, others will require a math ...