Presentations from CAPR’s Evaluation of Alternative Placement Systems and Student Outcomes
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.
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.
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.
Using Multiple Measures to Improve Placement Accuracy in Community Colleges
November 2, 2016 | OCTAE Convening for Minority Serving Community Colleges
This presentation focused on CAPR's study of the use of multiple measures for placing students into college-level or developmental courses, sharing initial data from the study's first semester of enrollment and highlighting emerging themes from interviews and focus groups.
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.
Multiple Measures Assessment for Placement: How It Looks in the Real World
March 22, 2016 | League for Innovation in the Community College Conference
In this session, three presenters discussed the reasons why multiple measures are being widely discussed as a way to improve incoming students’ assessment and placement.
Emerging Student Assessment and Placement Systems: Implementation and Research Using a Data Analytics Approach
February 24, 2016 | Achieving the Dream Annual Institute on Student Success
In this presentation, two researchers and two representatives of participating colleges shared their experiences in setting up and preparing to evaluate an alternative assessment and placement system.
Multiple Measures for Placement: Expanding Policies to Promote Student Success
April 19, 2015 | American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Annual Convention
This panel discussion focused on how the North Carolina Community College System partnered with the Community College Research Center to study the value of adding high school GPA to the placement process and the resulting Multiple Measures for Placement Policy implemented in 2013.
What’s Next for Developmental Reform? Research Agenda of the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness
February 18, 2015 | Achieving the Dream Annual Institute on Student Success
In this session, presenters introduced and discussed the research agenda of the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR).