General
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How do I contact ACES?
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How much does it cost to do an ACES validity study?
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When can we request a validity study from ACES?
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How do we get user account and password information for the ACES system?
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What types of colleges and universities can use ACES?
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How does ACES keep our student data files secure?
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Is ACES in compliance with FERPA regulations?
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Is a written agreement required to participate in ACES?
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May I get a copy of a sample validity report?
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When will we get our ACES admission or placement validity study?
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How frequently can we request a study from ACES?
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Which College Board testing programs are supported by ACES?
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Can we use scores from our local tests as predictors in ACES studies?
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Can I save my ACES study design online and return to it later?
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Can we pull up our old ACES study request and resubmit it with a new data file?
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We do our own validity studies. Why would we want to do an ACES study?
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I don’t have a statistical background; will I find an ACES report hard to interpret?
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What is the National SAT Validity Study?
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How do I look up a student’s high school attending institution code (AI code)?
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How do I use the Quality Assurance report to determine my errors?
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Can we include ACT scores as a predictor in my ACES study?
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How do I look up the designated institution/College Board college code (dicode) for my institution or system?
Admission Validity Studies
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What’s the minimum number of students needed for an admission validity study?
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The cohort we want to study has fewer than 50 students; can we do an admission validity study?
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How should we choose predictors for an admission validity study?
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Can we include part-time students in our sample for an admission validity study?
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How should we handle student course grades of Fail, Incomplete, or Withdraw?
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Can we include students who don't complete their first year in our admission validity study?
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Can we include students who are missing SAT scores in our admission validity study?
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Can we include international students in our admission validity study?
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We don’t capture HSGPAs in our student information system; is this a problem?
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How can I include special subgroup analyses in my admission validity study?
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Why would we want to request additional subgroups in an admission validity study?
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How many predictors can I include in my admission validity study?
Placement Validity Studies
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Do I need to submit a new data file for a placement study based on students analyzed in our admission study?
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Can we get placement information for our math and English courses at the same time?
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We use SAT scores for admission. How can we tell if they could help us in placement?
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Can we include students with Pass/Fail grades in our placement validity study?
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Can we include students with Fail, Incomplete, or Withdraw grades?
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How should we collect data for a placement validity study?
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What’s the minimum number of students needed for a placement validity study?
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How many semesters of data are required for a study?
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Can I include more than one cohort?
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Are grades required?
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What if there is no specified sequent course?
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What if we only give placement for AP Exam scores and not course credit?
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What if we only give course credit for AP Exam scores and not placement into a more advanced course?
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What if our policy awards credit for more than one course?
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What if students can earn course credit through other pathways, such as dual enrollment?
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Can I conduct subgroup analyses or include control variables in the study?
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Can we include other commercial exams as a predictor in my ACES study?
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How do I analyze and articulate my institution’s AP credit and placement policies within ACES?
Using the ACES Portal
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May I send my student data file to ACES by email instead of uploading it?
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Which format must I use to submit my student data to ACES?
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How should I label our student data file?
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Where can I get a data layout to give to the person who’s creating my data file?
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I am having problems uploading my data to ACES. What is wrong?
Retention Studies
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What’s the minimum number of students needed for a retention study?
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How should we choose predictors for a retention study?
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Can we include students who are missing SAT scores in our retention study?
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Which score(s) will be used in the analysis?
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We don’t capture HSGPAs in our student information system. Is this a problem?
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How can I include special subgroup analyses in my retention study?
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How many predictors can I include in my retention study?
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What is a retention descriptor in an ACES Retention Study?
Completion Studies
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When can I conduct an ACES Completion Study?
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What is the minimum number of students needed for a completion study?
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How should we choose predictors for a completion study?
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Can we include students who are missing SAT scores in our completion study?
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Which score(s) will be used in the analysis?
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We do not capture HSGPAs in our student information system. Is this a problem?
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We have different HSGPA scales in our student information system. Is this a problem?
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How can I include special subgroup analyses in my completion study?
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How many predictors can I include in my completion study?
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What is a completion descriptor in an ACES Completion Study, and how is that incorporated in the study?
Year-over-Year Studies
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Can I study the HSGPA supplied by my own institution or does that need to be the HSGPA from the ACES database?
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Can I include cohorts from prior to the 2017 entering cohort in a Year-over-Year study?
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If I didn’t submit all of the previous cohort files from my institution, how can I conduct a Year-over-Year study in ACES?
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What is the limit to the number of cohorts and number of academic years that I can examine in a Year-over-Year?
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Can we examine subgroups in a Year-over-Year study?
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Can we examine our institution-provided additional predictors in a Year-over-Year study?
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Is there a matched file associated with a Year-over-Year study?
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Can we conduct AP, CLEP, SAT Placement or ACCUPLACER Year-over-Year studies?
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What if I would like to review my previous ACES reports and files before submitting a Year-over-Year study?
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What if I decide to add or remove a submission after confirming my selections in my ACES Year-over-Year study?