White Paper 2009: The Promise of Proficiency
The Promise of Proficiency
How College Proficiency Information Can Help High Schools Drive Student Success
While schools have spent decades learning to measure and manage toward graduation, they now need the data and measurement tools that will demonstrate their college proficiency rate—or how well their students are doing the year after high school. Without this information they must rely on anecdotes at best and guesswork at worst.
By J.B. Schramm, E. Kinney Zalesne | December 3, 2009
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