97-5686. List of Approved ``Ability-to-Benefit'' Tests and Passing Scores

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 45 (Friday, March 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10545-10546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5686]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


List of Approved ``Ability-to-Benefit'' Tests and Passing Scores

AGENCY: The Department of Education.

ACTION: Correction notice.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects the passing scores for the Test of 
Adult Basic Education (TABE)--Forms 5 and 6, Level A for both the 
Survey Version and the Complete Battery Version; and the Test of Adult 
Basic Education (TABE)--Forms 7 and 8, Level A, for

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both the Survey Version and Complete Battery Version. Only the paper 
and pencil formats for these tests were approved. These tests and their 
incorrect passing scores were included in the ``List of Approved 
``Ability-to-Benefit'' Tests and Passing Scores'' that was published in 
the Federal Register on October 25, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lorraine Kennedy, U.S. Department of 
Education, 600 Independence Avenue, S.W., Regional Office Building 3, 
Room 3045, Washington, D.C. 20202-5451. Telephone: [phone]. 
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may 
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 25, 1996, the Secretary published 
a notice in the Federal Register (61 FR 55542--555423) that provided a 
list of ``ability-to-benefit'' tests that the Secretary has approved 
under section 484(d) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended 
(HEA), and the regulations that the Secretary promulgated to implement 
that section, 34 CFR Part 668, Subpart J. The notice also included 
approved passing scores for the approved tests.
    The Secretary provided incorrect passing scores for the listed TABE 
tests and is correcting those scores in this notice, as follows:
List of Approved ``Ability-to-Benefit'' Tests and Passing Scores
    6. Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE): (Reading Total, Total 
Mathematics, Total Language)--Forms 5 and 6, Level A, Survey Version 
and Complete Battery Version.
    Passing Scores: The approved passing scores on these tests are as 
follows: Reading Total (768), Total Mathematics (783), Total Language 
(714).
    Publisher: The test publisher and the address, contact person, 
telephone, and fax number of the test publisher are: CTB/McGraw-Hill, 
20 Ryan Ranch Road, Monterey, CA 93940-5703, Contact: Ms. Veronika 
Henderson, Telephone: [phone], Fax: [phone].
    7. Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE): (Reading, Total 
Mathematics, Language)--Forms 7 and 8, Level A, Survey Version and 
Complete Battery Version.
    Passing Scores: The approved passing scores on these tests are as 
follows: Reading (559), Total Mathematics (562), Language (545).
    Publisher: The test publisher and the address, contact person, 
telephone, and fax number of the test publisher are: CTB/McGraw-Hill, 
20 Ryan Ranch Road, Monterey, CA 93940-5703, Contact: Ms. Veronika 
Henderson, Telephone: [phone], Fax: [phone].
    Users are referred to the test publisher's technical manual for 
computing these scores.
    If an institution used the above TABE tests for an ability-to-
benefit determination under section 484(d) of the HEA, and received a 
notice from the test publisher or an assessment center that a student 
achieved at least a passing score on that test, the institution may 
rely on that notice. The student does not have to retake that test.
    However, if the institution was notified by the test publisher or 
an assessment center between October 25, 1996 and the date of the 
present notice that the student failed to qualify for the ATB program, 
the institution may have the student's TABE test rescored by the test 
publisher or the assessment center with the composite scores listed in 
the present Federal Register.

    Dated: February 28, 1997.
David A. Longanecker,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. 97-5686 Filed 3-6-97; 8:45 am]
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