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>Subject: RE: ##8962.16 (!) Online Placement
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:16:58 -0600
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At Colorado College, we use the WebCape exam for placement in French,
German, and Spanish. For Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Latin, and
Arabic, the language departments administer their own placement tests.

Students cannot take the tests from off campus.  They have to be on
campus.

Credit is not awarded for classes students place out of.  However,
students are allowed to fulfill the language requirement by getting a
placement score that puts them in an intermediate language class.

Sarah

Sarah Withee
Academic Technology Specialist for the Humanities
Colorado College
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-----Original Message-----
From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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Subject: Re: ##8962.16 (!) Online Placement

At Mount Holyoke College, we are using WebCAPE with some of the larger
language departments, a basic online form submission for Latin, and
individual appointments with faculty for some of the
less-commonly-taught languages.

The Internet-based exams are done by students online prior to their
arrival on campus--it's assumed that the honor code covers any issues
with cheating, and questions about whether or not a placement is
correct are handled by faculty meeting with the student once they've
arrived.

However, some of our departments are also beginning to consider
changing the current procedures.

For anyone shopping around for tests, I would highly recommend you
look at the Minnesota Language Proficiency Assessments (MLPA)
developed by CARLA (the Center for Advanced Research on Language
Acquisition) at the University of Minnesota:

http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/MLPA.html

For anyone thinking of developing their own new assessment, CARLA's
Virtual Assessment Center and Resources provide a lot of very useful
guidelines and information.

Regards,

-- Daryl

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Daryl L. Beres
Director of the Language Resource Center
Ciruti Center, Room 6
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA  01075
413-538-2408
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