The ACT of Enrollment: The College Enrollment Effects of State-Required College Entrance Exam Testing

Educational Researcher

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 151-160

  Klasik, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

admissions; colleges; econometric analysis; educational policy; higher education; policy; policy analysis; postsecondary education; quasi experimental analysis; regression analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876315994     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12474065     Document Type: Article

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