Eduardo, I attended a whole NFLRC workshop on "Designing Effective Foreign Language Placement Tests" in 2005. All participants were asked to contribute to the book that just came out, edited by workshop leaders Thom Hudson and Martyn Clark. The different case studies may help you. All but two deal with LCTLs --not taught in High School. My contribution called "Asterix in Testland: Can a Large Department Resist Tests as a Part of Its Placement System and Get Away With It?" (pp.167-175), mainly addresses the use of AP and High School years, and you'll find some of the answers you seek in Appendix A p.172. The book is Case Studies in Foreign Language Placement: Practices and Possibilities, edited by Thom Hudson & Martyn Clark; National Foreign Language Resource Center 2008. Good luck! Francoise You may also want to refer to the LLTI Archives where as recently as October 2008, Doug Canfield asked fairly similar questions. >--- Forwarded Message from Eduardo Lage-Otero <[log in to unmask]> >--- > >>From: Eduardo Lage-Otero <[log in to unmask]> >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: Data about language placement methods >>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:46:31 -0500 > >Dear colleagues, > >If your school is using AP scores, SAT II scores, years of a >particular language in High School, or language placement exams as a >way to place students or fulfill a language requirement, I would like >to know how these data are used at your institution. We are trying to >come up with more accurate ways to handle this process at my >institution. >Thank you for taking time to complete this short survey: > >http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=plO-mMH52Eh2f4e3ncKdZQw&hl=en > >Best, >Eduardo > >Eduardo Lage-Otero, Ph. D. >Director of Blume Language & Culture Learning Center >Raether Library & Information Technology Center, # 121 >Trinity College >300 Summit Street >Hartford, CT 06106-3100 > >Phone: (860) 297-5282 >Email: [log in to unmask] -- Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt Senior Lecturer Emerita French Department #2580 Berkeley CA 94720-2580 home: 510 845 2086 cell: 510 220 8719 skype: francoisesg *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************