--- Forwarded Message from Hiroyo Saito <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:00:26 -0500 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: Hiroyo Saito <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: placement test >HC-Host: Message scanned by NISC4, Networking & Systems, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041 [v011] >HC-MailScanner: Found to be clean >HC-SpamReport: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.001, required 1, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00) Hello, The Spanish department asked me to post this message. "The department of Spanish is contemplating the possibility of changing our placement procedure for next year. We would like to know if other language departments at other institutions have specific policies related to the selection of students at the beginning level. Do, for instance, some of these universities require a minimum score at the placement test for students who have already been exposed to the language at the high school level?" The Spanish department has been placing students who have taken Spanish in high school but who do not get a minimum score for the intermediate class in the placement test into the beginner's level along with students who have never taken Spanish before. The number of students in the beginner's level has been increasing and they do not have enough staff members to create a new class for false beginners. They do not want to set a minimum score for the beginner's level because they do not want to close to the door to the students who have never taken Spanish before. They would like to accept the true beginners, but they would like to limit the number of false beginners somehow. They are seeking ideas which allow them to do this. If you have any experience in similar situations, please let me know. I would appreciate your inputs. Thank you. Hiroyo -- *********************************** Hiroyo Saito Director of Language Learning Center Haverford College 370 Lancaster Avenue Haverford, PA 19041 (610)896-4971 [log in to unmask] http://www.haverford.edu/llc ************************************