Unifying Placement Assessment across 113 Colleges: Improving the Accuracy of the Placement Decision

Thursday, October 27, 2016 | 12:30PM–1:30PM | Exhibit Hall B/C, Level One
Session Type: Poster Session
Delivery Format: Poster Session
The California Community Colleges are leading an initiative to unify placement assessments across 113 colleges with a portable common assessment. Delivered through an accessible and scalable advanced common assessment platform developed in partnership with a professional services provider using open standards, improved placements incorporate competency-based performance and multiple measures.


Outcomes: Understand challenges of placement assessments across a large college system *Understand benefits of competency-based, multiple-measures outcomes for placement *Discover advantages of open standards and open source software

Presenters

  • Tim Calhoon

  • Josh Corbin

    Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.