Are Students Who Write the College Level Examination Program Placed in Academic Jeopardy

Across the United States, there are numerous persons attempting to demonstrate their proficiency in college subjects by writing the General Examinations of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). Approximately 300,000 CLEP General Examinations were administered during 1976-77 to both civilian and military personnel. Assuming that 100,000 of those tests are passed by students (a conservative estimate), and that the typical nine quarter hours are granted for each test passed, this represents approximately 900,000 quarter hours of college credit earned in one year throughout the United States. In the state of Florida, 8.4 percent of the lower division credits in the State University System and 1.5 percent of the university parallel credit in the community colleges during the 1975-76 year were earned through CLEP [8]. These figures suggest the impact that this program has had on higher education. There is no doubt that those students who apply the credits earned through CLEP to accelerate their college program of studies are able to graduate at a more rapid pace and to thereby save themselves and the taxpayers considerable funds. John Hills [5, p. 4] estimates this savings in the state of Florida at some $3.3 million during 1975-76. (This does not include the money saved directly by the student nor does it include the added income a student could receive by entering the labor market sooner.) Yet many persons within the mainstream of higher education have

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  Edward Caldwell•The Journal of Higher Education•1973

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