Can a reading test determine which students should be placed into a college reading and study skills program?

A reading test does not measure the skills required to succeed in a college course. 

A reading test measures the ability to obtain at one given moment a limited amount of different kinds of information.   What is required to succeed in a college course is more than the ability to obtain information.  Obtaining information is easy.  What is difficult is to retain, recall and use the information obtained to answer the test questions found in college courses.   The only real test that measures the ability to retain, recall and use the information obtained are the tests given in college courses provided these tests are valid and reliable.  

Students entering or enrolled in a college course can "read."  What many students cannot do is learn efficiently and effectively.  A reading test does not measure the skills required to succeed in a college course.   

What develops the ability to retain, recall and use the information obtained to answer the test questions in a college course is The Learning Wizard.

When obtaining information, at the same time a student must be able to know how and be will to apply the strategies required to retain and recall it in the manner it will be used.  The Learning Wizard contains 23 strategies that must be applied to retain and recall information.

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