Presentations by Elisabeth Barnett
Student Assessment and Placement Using Multiple Measures
October 11, 2018 | SUNY Association of Chief Academic Officers Fall 2018 Conference
In this session, Elisabeth Barnett described why the use of multiple measures for assessment and placement is widely becoming viewed as superior to the use of placement tests alone.
Building Student Momentum from High School to College
September 27, 2018 | New Jersey Council of Community College's College Readiness Now Leadership Meeting
Transition courses offered in the high school senior year can help students to become college-ready in math and English, especially when they are co-designed with college faculty. This session considered different transition course design options in use around the country and discussed the pros and cons of each.
Student Assessment and Placement Using Multiple Measures
September 27, 2018 | New Jersey Council of Community College's College Readiness Now Leadership Meeting
The presentation focused on different ways colleges are creating multiple measures assessment models and included the results from research underway in seven SUNY colleges that indicates the promise of this approach.
Developmental Education Reform: Early Findings From CAPR
April 29, 2018 | American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Annual Convention
This session explored current practices and innovations in developmental education, especially using multiple measures for placement and math pathways to align math to programs of study.
Reshaping the College Transition: Reducing Remediation Through HS Transition Courses
March 20, 2018 | League for Innovation in the Community College Annual Conference
This session shared information about where senior year transition courses exist, their designs, and the partnerships and policy contexts that surround them.
Student Assessment and Placement Systems: Initial Outcomes From an RCT
March 20, 2018 | League for Innovation in the Community College Annual Conference
This presentation discussed the need to change assessment and placement practices, shared information on an alternative strategy based on data analytics, and reported initial results from a randomized control trial testing this alternative mechanism.
Emerging Student Assessment and Placement Systems
February 22, 2018 | Achieving the Dream Annual Institute on Student Success
In this presentation, the presenters explained why there is a need to change assessment and placement practices, and shared information on approaches to developing and testing alternative strategies based on data analytics.
Multiple Measures Assessment of Student Readiness for College Courses
October 10, 2017 | National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) National Conference
In this session, presenters discussed alternative placement mechanisms that are increasingly used in colleges and dual/concurrent enrollment programs.
Multiple Measures Assessment for Placement: Understanding Their Construction and Implementation in a Policy Context
November 12, 2016 | Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference
This session included three papers about the use of multiple measures to place students who are entering college for the first time.
Getting It Right: The Emerging Assessment and Placement Landscape
April 11, 2016 | American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Annual Convention
This panel focused on why assessment needs to change and how to improve student placement using “big data,” noncognitive assessments, decision bands, and other emerging approaches.