Reminded of the value of this process!

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Do you have access to that study? A website perhaps?

Thanks!

The overview:
CLEP Students Outperform Others in GPA | CLEP Test Review

The whole thing:
http://professionals.collegeboard.com/pr...050420.pdf

Graduation rates for CLEP students are as good as, or better than, those of students in general (Enger and
Whitney, 1974). Studies have found that in sequent or later advanced course work in their area of CLEP credit, CLEP
students have earned grades of C or better found correlations of .31 to .62 between CLEP scores in economics, education, and sociology, and final course grades in equivalent courses.

At the University of Texas at Austin, Appenzellar and Kelley (1983) found a high correlation
(.66) between preliminary grade in calculus (obtained from the course professors prior to administration of the
exam) and CLEP score on the Calculus with Elementary Functions examination. A similar study on the CLEP
College Algebra exam found that the correlation between preliminary course grade and CLEP exam score was .61. Additionally, Chapman and Hargrett (1979) found a slightly higher mean score for students at six colleges who
took the CLEP examination in Introductory Psychology after completing an introductory psychology course as compared to those in the CLEP reference group.

Across the nine CLEP examinations, differences in mean overall GPA between the CLEP group and its matched comparison group were found in at least one year in all subject areas except for College Algebra. These differences replicated in at least one other year in three of the six subject areas where replication was attempted. These results suggest that students who receive credit by examination through CLEP for an introductory course generally have higher overall GPAs than students who complete the introductory course.

These results
indicate that, for the most part, few differences exist in the additional course work GPAs of students who receive credit for the introductory course via examination and those who complete the additional course.

When compared to a closely matched sample of students who earned credit through introductory college course
work, students who earned credit through CLEP generally had higher overall GPAs at the terminus of their undergraduate education. CLEP students did at least as well as course-taking students in sequent mathematics courses. They remained enrolled for a similar amount of time as other students, took a similar number of additional courses in the subject area (indicating their interest in further learning in the area where they earned credit by examination), and did at least as well as other students in these courses. CLEP students were somewhat more likely to graduate than students who completed a comparable course, graduated in about the same number of semesters, and carried a similar course load while enrolled. For all of these indicators, CLEP students were not found to be systematically different from AP students. This finding refutes the positions of those who find AP acceptable as a means of credit by examination and yet object to CLEP.

Basically, it boils down to the fact that the study found that the only difference between graduation rates and GPAs of those who took CLEP tests is that many of the CLEP students did BETTER than regular students.

Again, it is just a correlation, so more specific studies would need to be done in order to figure out what is causing the correlation. The point, however, is that testing by exam is a perfectly viable and GOOD way to earn credits AND learn the material. For those who think that it is the lazy way out and CLEP students are not as well-learned, they may wish to think again. (HintHint: Grad schools!)

[Namivie]

Mike,
What tests do you still need to take?

You can do it!!!!

[94steve]

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