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The Measurement and Evaluation Center of the University of Texas at Austin conducted a standard-setting study in 1991 to reassess the use of the College Board's Achievement Tests in mathematics, Level I and Level II for course placement and credit by examination in an elementary functions and coordinate geometry course. Students in 20 sections of the course were given either the Level I or the Level II test as part of the final examination. Test scores were obtained for 363 students who took the Level I math test and for 342 students who took the Level II math test. Test results were correlated with preliminary course grades obtained from the instructors. For each of the tests, score values indicated by six guidelines about decision scores in the professional literature were presented to the mathematics department to consider for selecting credit by examination scores and course placement scores. There were five possible decision scores for Level I and four for Level II. The prerequisite requirement for enrollment in the course was not changed, but the scores for receiving credit by examination were changed. Eight tables present study findings. (SLD)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert