{"id":2974,"date":"2012-02-29T06:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/inside-higher-ed-standardized-tests-not-working-for-community-college-students\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T06:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:01:57","slug":"inside-higher-ed-standardized-tests-not-working-for-community-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/inside-higher-ed-standardized-tests-not-working-for-community-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Higher Ed: Standardized Tests Not Working for Community College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2012\/02\/29\/too-many-community-college-students-are-placing-remedial-classes-studies-find\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> discusses a recent study that shows two commonly used placement tests do not effectively gauge a students&#8217; skill level.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>Large numbers of community college students are being placed into  remedial courses they don\u2019t need, according to new studies that  questions the value of the two primary standardized tests two-year  colleges use to place students: the COMPASS and the ACCUPLACER.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The research, which analyzed data from a large, urban community  college system and a statewide two-year system, found that up to a third  of students who placed into remedial classes on the basis of the  placement tests could have passed college-level classes with a grade of B  or better.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:01:57 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A report in today&#8217;s Inside Higher Ed discusses a recent study that shows two commonly used placement tests do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}