Questions on Academic Readiness for College
Practicing Academic Honesty
Directions: The source information provided below includes the necessary components of a journal article that you would need to create a properly formatted APA in-text citation and reference entry. Use the source information and the journal extract to answer the multiple choice questions below. When you have indicated your answers, follow the directions in the courseroom to save and submit this document as your completed assignment.
Source Information Journal: Educational Policy
Article: Measuring Academic Readiness for College
Authors: Andrew C. Porter and Morgan S. Polikoff
Date: May 2012
Volume, Issue: volume 26, issue 3
Article pages: 394–417
Pages on which the extract appears: 401–402
Extract from Journal Article
A second possible complication in defining and measuring college readiness has to do with college major. Certainly, students pursuing different majors need different sets of skills. Thus, depending in part on how readiness is defined, a readiness assessment might need to predict success in different majors, in addition to different institution types. However, constructing an assessment (or multiple assessments) to perform such a task would likely be unfeasible due to the number of potential field-by-institution-type combinations. Still, it would be useful to investigate different readiness standards for success in broad classifications of majors, such as the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. These complications, while making the creation of readiness predictors more challenging, in no way diminish the importance of developing such predictors. Rather, the complications lead us to think about ways to develop predictors that can be useful across the wide range of college-going experiences.
Question 1
Which of the following is NOT a correctly formatted APA in-text citation?
(Place as X on the line to indicate your answer.)
___a. According to Porter
Directions: The source information provided below includes the necessary components of a journal article that you would need to create a properly formatted APA in-text citation and reference entry. Use the source information and the journal extract to answer the multiple choice questions below. When you have indicated your answers, follow the directions in the courseroom to save and submit this document as your completed assignment.
Source Information Journal: Educational Policy
Article: Measuring Academic Readiness for College
Authors: Andrew C. Porter and Morgan S. Polikoff
Date: May 2012
Volume, Issue: volume 26, issue 3
Article pages: 394–417
Pages on which the extract appears: 401–402
Extract from Journal Article
A second possible complication in defining and measuring college readiness has to do with college major. Certainly, students pursuing different majors need different sets of skills. Thus, depending in part on how readiness is defined, a readiness assessment might need to predict success in different majors, in addition to different institution types. However, constructing an assessment (or multiple assessments) to perform such a task would likely be unfeasible due to the number of potential field-by-institution-type combinations. Still, it would be useful to investigate different readiness standards for success in broad classifications of majors, such as the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. These complications, while making the creation of readiness predictors more challenging, in no way diminish the importance of developing such predictors. Rather, the complications lead us to think about ways to develop predictors that can be useful across the wide range of college-going experiences.
Question 1
Which of the following is NOT a correctly formatted APA in-text citation?
(Place as X on the line to indicate your answer.)
___a. According to Porter