Diagnostic Tests
Enhance college preparedness and academic performance
ACCUPLACER Diagnostic Tests provide a detailed analysis of a student's strengths and weaknesses to enhance college preparedness and academic performance. Untimed and available in four subjects, this suite of assessments is designed for use at both high schools and postsecondary institutions. ACCUPLACER Diagnostic Tests enable you to:
- Assess student preparedness with detailed information. Diagnostic tests tell you more about students' academic strengths and weaknesses while the students are still in high school, transitioning to or already attending college.
- Apply academic interventions with greater precision. Diagnostic information empowers you to speak to student remediation issues and develop tutoring and mentoring strategies early.
- Better address student remediation. Diagnostic tests are particularly helpful for students preparing to take or retake an ACCUPLACER placement test. The results help students identify which areas to focus on for improvement.
ACCUPLACER Diagnostic Tests consist of:
- English and mathematics tests
- 5 domains per test
- 8 items per domain
- Domain-level scores and proficiency statements
ACCUPLACER Diagnostic Tests are available in four subject areas:
Reading Comprehension
- Passage-Based Reading: Main Idea
- Passage-Based Reading: Supporting Detail
- Sentence Relationship
- Passage-Based Reading: Inference
- Passage-Based Reading: Author's Purpose/Rhetorical Strategies
Sentence Skills
- Agreement
- Modifiers
- Diction/Logic
- Sentence Structure
- Sentence Boundaries
Arithmetic
- Computations with Integers and Fractions
- Computation with Decimal Numbers
- Problems involving Percent
- Estimation, Ordering, Number Sense
- Word Problems and Applications
Elementary Algebra
- Real Numbers
- Linear Equations, Inequalities and Systems
- Quadratic Expressions and Equations
- Algebraic Expressions and Equations
- Word Problems and Applications
Diagnostic tests benefits
- Diagnostic and Placement testing integrated in one platform
- Immediate results and comprehensive reporting
- Institutional custom messaging
- Untimed and designed to take less than one hour per test
- Computer adaptive
Using Diagnostic tests in high schools
ACCUPLACER Diagnostic Tests provide educators with an immediate, innovative and comprehensive suite of tools, data and proficiency statements intended to form intervention programs and college readiness pathways of success.
Administer the Diagnostic tests:
- In the 11th or 12th grade as a pre- and post-test tool to assess academic progress
- To students enrolled in academic intervention programs
- While transitioning to college in preparation for the placement tests
- To prepare for dual-enrollment courses or "middle college" programs
- With your GEAR UP programs
Providing early intervention for students through collaborative efforts is one way to ensure that students have well-placed confidence that they are prepared for college. As societal pressures demand higher standards for students, high schools must examine ways that they may engage in mutually beneficial activities with colleges that will strengthen high school student preparation for college.
Using Diagnostic tests in colleges
ACCUPLACER Diagnostic tests can provide additional data so that students, advisers and faculty can know with precision the skills needing targeted intervention strategies to help students address their academic weaknesses.
Administer the Diagnostic tests:
- At your feeder high schools early on
- In the summer months between academic years
- While transitioning to college in preparation for the placement tests
- After taking the placement tests to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses
- In collaboration with your adult education
- In collaboration with your GED programs
With the inherent flexibility of the ACCUPLACER platform and using the Diagnostic tests alongside the placement tests, institutions can determine when and how to use these diagnostic features to best address the needs of their students.
Robust reporting features
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Individual Score Reports provide immediate feedback on a student's strengths and weaknesses in each of the five domain categories.
About individual score reports:
- Immediate feedback
- Score results by test and domain
- Proficiency results and prescriptive statements by test and domain
- Institution-specific customized messages
- Integrated with other score results in the Individual Score Summary Report
Summary Reports provide a comprehensive analysis of all students' results by test and domain.
Diagnostic test summary reports enable you to:
- Conduct an analysis of all student results by test and domain in one report
- Apply curriculum changes based on the summary of student strengths and weaknesses
- Design intervention programs focused on the domains needing the most attention
- Monitor student progress over time
Score roster reports provide results on individual students by test and domain.
Diagnostic test score roster reports enable you to:
- View individual student results by test and domain in one report
- Run reports for all student results in one report
- Export test results to various formats, including CSV and Excel XML