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Description from the test publisher (Riverside Publishing), the test is a popular reading placement test.

by Jon Marcus on The Hechinger Report, December 26, 2011. Open University, a successful British online public university to be used as a model in the U.S. The goal is to help students who are intimidated by higher education adapt to and succeed in college. Next Generation Learning Challenges, a Gates funded initiative, will adapt two free Open University, at-your-own-pace online courses for use at about a dozen U.S. colleges and universities this academic year: one to help students be more comfortable with math so they do better on placement tests or move more quickly through remedial courses, and another to teach students skills to prepare them for college.

COMPASS is an untimed, computerized test that helps evaluate skills for placement into appropriate courses. Created by ACT.

By Michael Winerip in the On Education column of the New York Times, October 23 2011. The article highlights students who have attended NYC high schools but then failed their placement tests when they arrived at CUNY community colleges. The system now offers an intensive remediation program called Start in which students focus on all 3 remediation subjects (reading, writing and math) for 5 hours/day, 5 days/week, all for a cost of $75 for the semester.

By Kristen di Gennaro in Journal of Basic Writing, v 27(1), p. 61-79, 2008. This page, from the ERIC database, includes an abstract for this article. The article itself is subscription only. Please check with your local library for more assistance.