Presentations from CAPR’s Evaluation of Alternative Placement Systems and Student Outcomes2017-11-02T16:29:40-04:00

Presentations from CAPR’s Evaluation of Alternative Placement Systems and Student Outcomes

Multiple Measures Assessment: Two Studies on Implementation and Early Impacts

February 24, 2019 | League for Innovation in the Community College Annual Conference

This session focused on how to set up a multiple measures assessment and placement system in a college, taking into account what we know about impacts on student outcomes, resources needed, and lessons learned on implementation in three states.

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.

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.

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.

Estimating a Placement Algorithm

August 29, 2017 | CAPR Webinar: Algorithm Development and Sustainability

This CAPR webinar discussed how colleges can develop and compute an algorithm geared towards higher efficacy in developmental placement using historical data. A recording of the webinar is available for streaming.

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