ACCUPLACER, a battery of educational tests used for collegiate-level class placement, is used by hundreds of thousands of students entering institutions of higher education each year. In a previous study Cole and Lutkus (1997) reported a significant relationship between Reading Comprehension scores from ACCUPLACER and age, and so recommended that an exploration of the effect of age on the predictive validity of Reading Comprehension scores be conducted. This study examined such a relationship on data from two midwestern community colleges The results indicated that predictive validity was significantly related to one's age cohort. These results held for each college and the over-all sample.
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