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Colorado GED Study: How Colorado Graduates Benefit From Passing the GED Tests - PDF
Based on a survey conducted by the Colorado Literacy Research Initiative in 1996, this study profiles
the benefits of passing the GED Tests to graduates and their families and explores two key issues: why
these individuals left school before graduating, and what motivated them to prepare for and take the GED Tests.
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Colorado Sets National Standard for Success, 1990-2000
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Volume 5, Number 2, April 28, 2001 issue of LitScan.
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The Devil is in the Details:
Evidence from the GED on the Role of Examination System Details in Determining Who
Passes - PDF
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, NCSALL Report no. 16,
April 2000.
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The Economic Benefits of the GED: a Research Synthesis
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National Center for the Study of Adult
Learning and Literacy, NCSALL Research Brief.
As more states use test results as a determinant for high school graduation, many analysts predict higher dropout
rates and the growth of the GED as an important educational credential. But does a GED provide economic benefits to a
high school dropout?
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Educational and
Labor Market Performance of GED Recipients - PDF
A research synthesis from the U.S. Dept. of Education, National Library of
Education, 1998.
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Educational Attainment of High School
Dropouts 8 Years Later
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An Issue Brief from the National Center for Education Research (NCES), November 2004.
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Focus on Basics: GED
Volume 2, Issue B, June 1998
GED theme issue of Focus on Basics.
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The GED and Beyond - PDF
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Focus
on Policy, April, 2003
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GED Diploma
a Stepping Stone to Higher Education, Health, Prosperity and Happiness - PDF
Volume 1, Number 2, February 11, 1997 issue of LitScan
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GED Graduates Equal
High School Graduates in Entrance Test Scores and College GPA's--But Stop Short of Bachelor's
Degrees - PDF
Volume 1, Number 1, February 10, 1997 issue of LitScan
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GED
Testing in Colorado: 1993-2004
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Graphs of recent statistics about GED test takers.
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GEDs for Teenagers: Are There Unintended Consequences?
Urban Institute, 1999
This paper uses data by age, state, and year from 1989 to 1997 to analyze
whether the GED program encourages youth to leave high school.
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How Colorado Dropouts Who
Return to School and Pass the GED Tests Increase Tax Revenues - PDF
Volume 2, Number 4, July 13, 1998
issue of LitScan.
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If at First You
Don't Succeed... - PDF
Volume 5, Number 3, October 10, 2001 issue of LitScan.
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Is
the GED a Valuable Credential?
ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, Myths and
Realities No. 10 (2000)
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A Productive Partnership
Response to a study that
raised questions about the value of the GED credential.
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Results From a New Approach to Studying the Economic Benefits of the GED
Researchers at Harvard Graduate School of Education took a unique approach to looking at
the question, "Does acquiring the GED increase the earnings of dropouts?"
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‘Second-Chance’ Strategies
for Female School Dropouts
This study looked at women's income ten years after dropping out of
high school and found that women who obtained a GED in the 3rd year after dropping out of high school had incomes that were 25 percent
higher than those who did not pursue further education. Those women who both obtained a GED and attended a year of job training or
college had incomes that were nearly 50 percent higher.
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So You Want a GED?: Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Dropouts Who Seek the
Credential - PDF
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, NCSALL
Research Brief
For high school dropouts, earning a GED leads to faster earnings growth,
according to this study of GED and employment data from the state of Florida.
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What Do We Know
About the Economic Benefits of the GED? A Synthesis of the Evidence from Recent
Research
John H. Tyler, Brown University and National Bureau of Economic Research, Aug.
2001
Synthesizes research on the economic impact of the GED credential.
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Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED?
Evidence from High School and Beyond
Examines the value of the GED credential and
the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the
early 1990s.
