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Curriculum and Instruction

University of South Carolina

ACT WorkKeys

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The Act Keytrain Program And The Act Workkeys Test Performance: An Action Research Study, Matthew T. Thompson Jan 2017

The Act Keytrain Program And The Act Workkeys Test Performance: An Action Research Study, Matthew T. Thompson

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The purpose of this quantitative action research study was to describe the effectiveness of the American College Testing (ACT) KeyTrain program in the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), conducted with 50 inmate-student-participants who were enrolled in the Palmetto Unified School District’s Tyger River High School’s (TyRCI) adult education program. The identified problem of practice for this dissertation in practice (DiP) was an evaluation of the effectiveness of this program for one group of low socioeconomic status Black male inmate-student-participants. This evaluation was of vital importance to the Palmetto Unified School District (PUSD) and SCDC because ACT WorkKeys is one …