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A Primer on Placement Testing.
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Morante, Edward A. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Discusses considerations in developing assessment and placement programs: which students should be tested, why admission tests and high school grades are inappropriate for placement, how testing should be carried out, which tests should be used, and how tests should be interpreted. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Student Evaluation, Student Placement
Value-Added Assessment: College Education and Student Growth.
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Belcher, Marcia J. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Offers a synthesis of the arguments for and against value-added testing (i.e., assessing how much students learn or improve or grow in school or college). Looks at alternative methods of measuring the value added in terms of the relationship between entry and exit skills. (DMM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Outcomes of Education