Professional Development
ACCUPLACER online training sessions
These free, one-hour sessions are designed for faculty and testing professionals who want to learn more about ACCUPLACER products, best practices and the testing system.
Session Descriptions
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| ACCUPLACER Overview |
| Session Title | Description |
| ACCUPLACER Overview | Introduces the ACCUPLACER platform, provides an overview of the exams, reviews reporting options, and examines placement and diagnostic usages. |
| ACCUPLACER Diagnostics and ACCUPLACER//MyFoundationsLabs | Provides detailed analyses of individual student and class performance and introduces MyFoundationsLab online content to create an individualized learning path based on a student’s diagnostic results. |
| Activation Steps for ACCUPLACER//MyFoundationsLab | Reviews the steps necessary to activate ACCUPLACER//MyFoundationsLab in your current ACCUPLACER account and covers various payment options and steps required for student registration in MyFoundationsLab. |
| ACCUPLACER for College Readiness | This session discusses the design and use of ACCUPLACER as a measure of college readiness and presents tools and strategies to diagnose student strengths/needs to provide intervention prior to enrollment in college. |
| ACCUPLACER ESL | Provides an overview of ESL exams for use in assessing students’ English language proficiency. |
| WritePlacer | Provides an overview of the WritePlacer and WritePlacer ESL exams, which provide an assessment of students’ writing abilities for use in course placement. |
| Computer Skills Placement | Provides an overview of the suite of Computer Skills Placement exams, which assess student competency in basic computer skills. |
| Introduction to ACCUPLACER |
| Session Title | Description |
| Planning for ACCUPLACER | Discusses decisions and options necessary for new ACCUPLACER users including an overview of policy decisions and technical setup. |
| Methods for Setting Cut Scores | Presents methods for determining cut scores to place students into developmental education classes or college-level courses. |
| Refining Placement with Multiple Weighted Measures | Provides an overview of the options within ACCUPLACER to refine placement using multiple weighted measures guided by use of background questions. |
| ACCUPLACER In Depth |
| Session Title | Description |
| ACCUPLACER Preregistration and Vouchers | Focuses on how to streamline the enrollment process with recently added ACCUPLACER features: preregistration and vouchers. |
| Setting up Branching Profiles and Placement Rules | Walks through the creation of testing sites and users, and the process of creating branching profiles and placement rules, which determine which tests will be administered to students under what conditions and which courses students will receive based on scores. |
| ACCUPLACER Reporting | Highlights the reporting options available, including methods for creating and exporting customized reports. |
| Creating Local Tests | Presents options for creating customized questions and exams that can be administered through the ACCUPLACER platform. |
| ACCUPLACER Reliability and Validity | Reviews research that establishes the reliability and validity of ACCUPLACER exams. Information is included about designing your own Admitted Class Evaluation Study (ACES) to validate your cut scores. |
| ATB Training Certification and Procedure for Closing ATB Testing Sites | Reviews all procedures for administering ATB tests, highlights new regulations concerning ATB testing, and provides instructions on becoming a certified ATB proctor. |
| Exporting Data from ACCUPLACER into Student Information Systems | Highlights the options for exporting data from ACCUPLACER to allow for import into campus student information systems such as Banner, Datatel, or PeopleSoft. |
| ACCUPLACER Platform Functional Enhancements | Highlights the latest enhancements to the ACCUPLACER Platform. |