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Creating a New, Level-based Composition Placement Test at a Growing IEP
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Dunstan, Jason A
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1413992871
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, English (English as a Second Language).
Abstract
This paper discusses the research and design of a new composition placement test to better fit the rapidly growing population at an intensive English program. The previous placement test no longer fit because it was designed for a much smaller student population. After reviewing the research, new versions of prompts and instructions were designed to use the curriculum directly as criteria, against which to measure a student's placement. This will decrease the occurrences of misplacement due on discrepancies between language skills, reading ability and writing ability, for example. The new prompts and instructions consider variables of content, linguistic accessibility, task difficulty/variety, and transparency regarding writing evaluation. This can inform any IEPs that are going through similar growing pains with the dramatic increases in international students in the US, year after year
Committee
Douglas Coleman (Committee Chair)
Anthony Edgington (Committee Member)
Alexander Wrege (Committee Member)
Pages
51 p.
Subject Headings
English As A Second Language
Keywords
assessment
;
composition
;
ESL writing
;
Placement testing
;
writing prompt design
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Dunstan, J. A. (2014).
Creating a New, Level-based Composition Placement Test at a Growing IEP
[Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1413992871
APA Style (7th edition)
Dunstan, Jason.
Creating a New, Level-based Composition Placement Test at a Growing IEP.
2014. University of Toledo, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1413992871.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Dunstan, Jason. "Creating a New, Level-based Composition Placement Test at a Growing IEP." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1413992871
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Creating a New, Level-based Composition Placement Test at a Growing IEP by Jason A Dunstan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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