--- Forwarded Message from "Canfield, Douglas W" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: Online Placement Exam ? Questionnaire (PLEASE HELP!) >Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:28:00 -0400 >Thread-Topic: Online Placement Exam ? Questionnaire (PLEASE HELP!) >Thread-Index: AcklfBpFP2OcPuUfQKutBya2M39m+wAAUfxd >References: A<[log in to unmask]> >From: "Canfield, Douglas W" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]> Dear All: Times being as they are, those of us associated with the FL Placement Exam (we use WebCAPE, but administer the exam in-person during Orientation) have been summoned to meet with the Provost's office to discuss moving placement exams out of Summer Orientation, and have them delivered instead online during the summer. Apparently, they took the time to review seventeen schools and found that we are the only university that still conducts placement exams in person during Summer Orientation. All the other universities they reviewed conduct the placement exams online and offsite. Of course, none of the reviewers can seem to remember who they talked to...I'll bet their memories come back to them @ the meeting! I seem to remember a post a few years back where Andrew Ross was expressing reservations about the prospect of using online/offsite exams over the summer -- questions of validity, security, and integrity, if I recall. But no bites...or more likely, you all replied to Andrew off-list. Frankly, I just need a lot of data right now...and quick. Just so that there is a record of this for others who might find themselves summoned in the future, I think it would be best if you could reply to the list (so we're not re-inventing the wheel in a few months/years) but I'll take answers to this questions however you feel comfortable sending them (on or off-list). I need anyone and everyone, especially those who handle several hundreds to thousands of exams during Orientation online, to respond to the following questions: 1. What placement test do you use? 2. Is credit awarded for classes that they place out of? If so, how does that work in your institution? 3. Are students required to take the exam in-person even though the exam is online? If not, how have you addressed the potential for academic dishonesty? Again, any and all thoughts and suggestions are gratefully accepted. Best, DOUG Douglas W. Canfield Coordinator III, Language Resource Center Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Tennessee - Knoxville [log in to unmask] << L'homme ne peut pas decouvrir de nouveaux oceans a moins qu'il ait le courage de perdre le rivage de vue. >> - Andre GIDE *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************