Predicting Success in College: The Importance of Placement Tests and High School Transcripts

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Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation Policy (2015, background): “In any case, the results suggest that policy makers may want to pay more attention to the risk of misassigning prepared students to remediation, which research suggests is relatively common when test scores are used as the sole determinant of placement (Belfield and Crosta 2012; Scott-Clayton 2012).”
Improving the Targeting of Treatment (2012, methodology): “In related working papers using the same data utilized here, Scott-Clayton (2012) and Belfield and Crosta (2012) also find accuracy rates in this range, at least when “success” in college coursework is defined as earning a B or better.”
Using Multiple Measures to Make Math Placement Decisions: Implications for Access and Success in Community Colleges (2015, background): “Using them in conjunction with test scores can increase placement accuracy and may be, as Belfield and Crosta (2012) suggest, closer to the optimal decision rule for placement in developmental math.”