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Direct linkVerbout, Mary F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Multiple-choice tests of punctuation and usage are used throughout the United States to assess the writing skills of new community college students in order to place them in either a basic writing course or first-year composition. To determine whether using the COMPASS Writing Test (CWT) is a valid placement at a community college, student test…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Placement, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedGalbato, Linda; Markus, Mimi – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 1995
Describes a study comparing English course-level placement based on writing samples and standardized placement scores, as well as two different methods of grading writing samples. Results support the use of writing samples to supplement standardized placement scores as well as the use of a group holistic method of grading writing samples. Includes…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, English Instruction, Holistic Evaluation
Peer reviewedBers, Trudy H.; Smith, Kerry E. – Community College Review, 1990
Describes a study of the validity and reliability of a writing skills assessment test taken by 4,284 2-year college students in 1986-87. Assesses interrater reliability, influences of nonperformance factors (e.g., gender, native language, and form of test), predictive validity of test for future performance, and implications of findings. (DMM)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Predictive Validity
Download full textSturtz, Alan J.; McCarroll, Judith A. – 1993
In Connecticut, the Board of Trustees for Community-Technical Colleges mandated the assessment and placement of entering community college students, adopting the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) for a systemwide pilot test beginning in spring 1989. At (then) South Central Community College, a study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Writing, Community Colleges
Isonio, Steven – 1992
In spring 1992, a mid-term assessment of English 10 students was conducted at Golden West College, in California, in order to compare four course placement methods. English 10, "Writing Essentials," is a nontransferrable course which focuses on paragraph writing and grammar review in order to prepare students for entry into English 100.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Basic Writing, College English
