All
Oregon community colleges now offer ACCUPLACER because COMPASS is
obsolete at the end of this month. However, each community college has
set their own cut scores and placement requirements,
so these do not necessarily match other schools.
A
huge change to Chemeketa is the allowance of Smarter Balanced scores
(if high enough) for placement, with Senior English successful
completion as another asset for higher reading or writing
placement.
On
a practical note, this means fewer of your students will need to take
placement tests. This will be great for your students and a cost saver
for us since ACCUPLACER tests are considerably
more expensive for colleges than COMPASS was.
Those
students who are confident that they will be applying for Chemeketa
Scholars will still need placement test results, whether from COMPASS or
ACCUPLACER (or a combination of the two).
COMPASS
scores are valid for five years, so students will not need to retest if
they have already scored well. We will be discouraging placement
testing to those who have high COMPASS placement
test scores or Smarter Balanced scores. We also encourage students
that know they will be attending another college to test directly with
their college. This way, their scores will upload into that school's
database automatically and the student will not
need to submit scores on their own.
I
have attached a chart that will give more information regarding Smarter
Balanced scores and Senior English for Chemeketa placement. (Please
note that the sentence below this chart means
that a student/school will need to supply a copy of Smarter Balanced
scores to a Chemeketa testing center to make the placement official.)
I also included another attachment that has other info that applies to high school students.
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