ACCUPLACER
An accurate student placement test delivered over the Internet
At times, education professionals need additional information about students' academic skills to determine if developmental classes would be beneficial before the students take college-level work. How do you accurately assess students' academic skills in order to effectively recruit, advise, and place them?
ACCUPLACER is a suite of computer-adaptive placement tests that quickly, accurately, and efficiently assess reading, writing, and math skills.
ACCUPLACER:
- Can reduce your assessment costs.
- Allows you to assess using direct writing with scores available immediately.
- Helps save your technical support dollars.
- Allows you to deliver the right tests to the right student (individual customization).
- Enables you to test in remote locations.
- Allows you to facilitate institutional research through customized reports.
- Can help you increase retention through correct course placement.
Internet delivery
ACCUPLACER Online is the first and only computer-adaptive placement testing program delivered over the Internet. Internet delivery means that an institution can administer quality assessments to many students simultaneously at an affordable price, but without the attendant difficulties of installing and upgrading software (especially in networked environments). This suite of computer-adaptive placement tests is used extensively by community colleges, four-year colleges, technical schools, and high schools.
Scoring is virtually immediate, providing the best kind of feedback for the test-taker. Individual student score reports are available immediately after testing. These score reports contain student test scores, custom messages from the institution, and information about course placement based on institutional placement scores.
Internet delivery means that any facility with Internet access and a proctor can be a test center. That means you can make ACCUPLACER available anywhere on or off campus—the library, the learning lab, the placement office; or local high schools, satellite campuses, and so forth. You won't need to install software or deal with software compatibility issues. Just connect to the Internet and you're good to go.
What you can do with ACCUPLACER
- Conduct off-site orientation programs for new students in several locations
- Work with your feeder high schools to assess the academic readiness of the students coming to you
- Establish benchmarks for students enrolling in your Distance Learning program
- Measure the academic skills of displaced/outsourced workers as the first step of your job-training contract
ACCUPLACER tests
- General assessments:
- Reading Comprehension
- Sentence Skills
- Arithmetic
- Elementary Algebra
- College-Level Mathematics
- Essay assessments:
- WritePlacer Plus
- WritePlacer ESL
- Texas WritePlacer
- ESL assessments:
- ACCUPLACER ESL Reading Skills
- ACCUPLACER ESL Sentence Meaning
- ACCUPLACER ESL Language Use
- ACCUPLACER ESL Listening
- WritePlacer ESL
- Supplemental Skills assessments:
- Arithmetic
- Elementary Algebra
- Alternative format assessments:
- COMPANION paper and pencil
- COMPANION CD-ROM
- COMPANION special formats (Braille, audiocassette, and large print)
ACCUPLACER features
- Internet delivery
- Immediate, accurate student placement information
- Secure, reliable, bias-free assessments
- Computer-adaptive multiple-choice tests
- Computer-scored essay (WritePlacer Plus or WritePlacer ESL)
- All components fully integrated into the system
- All scores available immediately and exportable into existing campus information systems
- Local tests delivered and scored as a component of the system
To learn more about ACCUPLACER please call (866) 607-5223 or email accuplacer@collegeboard.org.
