Presentations from CAPR’s Evaluation of Alternative Placement Systems and Student Outcomes
Evaluation of a Multiple Measures Placement System Using Data Analytics: Early Impact Findings
March 22, 2019 | Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Annual Conference
This session described the broadly positive early results from a study examining the effect of multiple measures of assessment on student course placement and success.
Developmental Education Reform to Improve Student Outcomes: Findings from Four Evaluations
March 7, 2019 | Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Annual Conference
This symposium sought to expand the developmental education research base by featuring findings from four evaluations. CAPR researchers discussed multiple measures assessment and placement, as well as Dana Center Math Pathways.
Improving Developmental Education: Multiple Measures and Math Pathways
February 26, 2019 | League for Innovation in the Community College Annual Conference
In this session, researchers presented promising findings from studies examining multiple measures for developmental course placement and math pathways reforms within the context of results from a national survey about developmental education practices.
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.
Multiple Measures Placement Using Data Analytics: An Implementation and Early Impacts Report Webinar
November 30, 2018 | New York Student Success Center Webinar
Elisabeth Barnett described early results from CAPR’s experimental study of 13,000 students at seven New York community colleges who were randomly assigned to be placed using either standardized placement tests alone or multiple measures.
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.