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Cruce, PhD  \nContents  \nIntroduction ................................................................................................................... 4  \nThe Importance of the ACT Test and a Fee Waiver...................................................... 6  \nPrimary Reasons for Not Taking the ACT ..................................................................... 6  \nWhen Students Realized They Would Not Take the ACT as Scheduled ...................... 7  \nAligning Students’ Primary Reason for Not Taking the ACT With the Point at Which They Knew..................................................................................................... 8  \nI Needed to Be Somewhere Else That Day.................................................................. 9  \nI Didn’t Have All the Materials (Ticket, Photo ID) That I Needed to Take the Test ........ 11  \nI Didn’t Have a Way to Get to the Test Center.............................................................. 12  \nSome Other Reason .................................................................................................... 14  \nI Overslept .................................................................................................................... 15  \nI Didn’t Feel Prepared Enough to Take the Test ........................................................... 16  \nFree Test Prep from ACT .............................................................................................. 18  \nI Forgot About the Test Date ......................................................................................... 18  \nI Had the Incorrect Test Date or Test Location ............................................................. 18  \nWhat is on an ACT Admission Ticket? .......................................................................... 21  \nRecommendations for .................................................................................................. 21  \nState and Local Policymakers .................................................................................. 21  \nPrincipals .................................................................................................................. 22  \nSchool Counselors and Teachers............................................................................. 23  \nWhat Has ACT Done so Far? ....................................................................................... 24  \nConclusion .................................................................................................................... 25  \n ACT, Inc. 2021  \n© by ACT, Inc. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License [https://creativecommons.org/l](https://creativecommons.org/l)icenses/by-nc/4 .0/  \n[ACT.org/research](ACT.org/research)  \nR1860  \nIntroduction  \nThis is the fourth report in a series of studies we are conducting to investigate ACT’s fee waiver program. In our first brief, Use of Fee Waivers to Register for the ACT, we found that the share of ACT® registrations completed with a fee waiver has remained relatively consistent over recent years; currently, about one out of five registrations for the ACT is completed with a fee waiver.¹ Although there is some variation in fee waiver usage across test dates in a given school year and across US states, we found that, overall, ACT’s fee waiver program appears to be reaching its intended recipients, i.e. , students who have been traditionally underrepresented in higher education. Specifically, students who come from lower-income families and those who would be first-generation college students were more likely than their peers to use fee waivers to register for the ACT.  \nIn our second brief, Test-Day Absenteeism Among Students Who Registered for the ACT with a Fee Waiver, we reporte","cbCaiqrs2MAV7Unz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqrs2MAV7Unz","pdf",464885,25,"English","# Introduction\n## The Importance of the ACT Test and a Fee Waiver\n## Primary Reasons for Not Taking the ACT\n## When Students Realized They Would Not Take the ACT as Scheduled\n## Aligning Students’ Primary Reason With the Point They Knew\n## Policy and Practice Recommendations\n# Conclusion","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of this fourth ACT fee waiver report?\",\"answer\":\"To understand why students who registered for the ACT with a fee waiver did not test as initially scheduled and how those reasons can guide policy and support improvements.\"},{\"question\":\"How does test-day absenteeism for fee-waived registrations compare with paid registrations?\",\"answer\":\"About three out of ten fee-waived registrations typically led to a test-day absence, compared with about one out of ten for paid registrations, with the gap reported as increasing over time.\"},{\"question\":\"How were students’ reasons for missing the test collected?\",\"answer\":\"Survey invitations were sent in the weeks after the October 2019 national test date to students who registered with a fee waiver by the regular registration deadline, collecting students’ own words.\"}]","In Their Own Words: Reasons for Test-Day Absenteeism Among Students Who Registered for the ACT with a Fee Waiver | PDF",1791515746,63]