What does ACTP stand for?

The College Assessment Exam or the American College Testing Program (also known as ACT) was first introduced in 1959 and was active nationwide the following year.

To obtain the credential upon completion of training, a candidate must pass a national certification exam administered by ACT, the testing company responsible for the American College Testing program.

which began measuring college readiness as the American College Testing Program in the 1950s, reports that among the college aspirants who took its admission exams last year, only 21 percent of the graduating seniors attained scores high enough in all four subjects--English, reading, math, and science--to indicate that they wouldn't need to take a no-credit remedial course when they entered college.

PEP, three- or four-hour tests in more than forty subjects, is given by the American College Testing Program throughout North America and by special arrangement anywhere in the world.

A similar model has been developed by an Education Department economist as a personal project, and University of Michigan researchers have just started work on another for the American College Testing Program, which produces the ACT college placement test widely used in western states.

Nationally, about three in 10 freshmen at private schools and one-third at public schools don't return to the same institution as sophomores, according to the American College Testing Program.