Use of Fee Waivers to Register for the ACT. ACT Research & Policy. Issue Brief

Autor/inn/en	Cruce, Ty; Moore, Raeal; Hayes, Shannon
Institution	ACT, Inc.
Titel	Use of Fee Waivers to Register for the ACT. ACT Research & Policy. Issue Brief
Quelle	(2020), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Entrance Examinations; Fees; Low Income Students; Access to Education; Student Financial Aid; Geographic Location; High School Students; Disproportionate Representation; Trend Analysis; Minority Group Students; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Socioeconomic Influences; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; ACT Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufnahmeprüfung; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Trendanalyse; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Assessment; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	Taking the ACT test is an important step in the college-going process. Over 1,500 colleges across the US educating approximately 1.5 million first-time degree-seeking undergraduates either require, recommend, or consider test scores as a criterion for admission decisions. The registration fees for taking the ACT on a national test date--at $55 for the ACT without writing and $70 for the ACT with writing for the 2020-21 school year--can be a financial burden for students from low-income families, thus potentially limiting their access to many colleges across the US. To remove this financial burden and enable test-taking as well as increased subsequent college attendance among students from low-income families, ACT provides eligible students with fee waivers to use when registering for the ACT. These fee waivers include free access to ACT online test prep products, free additional score reports to send to colleges, and college application fee waivers that ACT encourages colleges and universities to accept. As the first brief in a series of studies investigating ACT's fee waiver program, this report provides an overview of the number and percentage of ACT® national test date registrations that were completed with a fee waiver between the 2014-15 and 2018-19 school years. In this first brief, the focus is on ACT registrations that were completed using fee waivers and not on the individual students who used the fee waivers to register. The focus is on registrations because students could register to take the ACT on more than one test date and because students who were eligible for fee waivers could use up to two fee waivers to register for the ACT. Given this focus on registrations, the results include students who may have registered and tested multiple times in this five-year window. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	ACT, Inc. 500 ACT Drive, P.O. Box 168, Iowa City, IA 52243-0168. Tel: 319-337-1270; Web site: http://www.act.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01