This is not your mother's high school recruiting plan! Learn how one school is piloting a new outreach effort in high schools using placement testing as the centerpiece. A team approach to connect with students, share the importance of placement testing, and complete the majority of the enrollment steps during their school day took center stage this last year at Hennepin Technical College. The process from identifying premiere partner high schools to tracking enrollment and the return on investment will be discussed. Preliminary data will be shared.

Conference Track: Placement Testing

Placement tests are critical to students' successful transition to college. However, deciding how placement tests should be used and evaluating their effectiveness can be challenging. This presentation will discuss the intricacies of placement testing, including the justification for their use, expected outcomes for correctly placed students, common approaches to validation (and their limitations), and practical recommendations for collecting validity evidence and promoting valid uses of placement tests. This session will expand upon the presentation given as part of the NCTA webinar entitled "Placement Testing Implementation Success: What You Need to Know, Test Administrators Panel" by discussing methods for setting and evaluating cut-off scores as well as how placement tests can be used in a multiple measures approach to placement. Throughout the presentation, examples from the University of Wisconsin and Tailwind Placement testing programs will be provided.

The session goals include the following:

• Attendees will understand and explain the value that placement tests offer over other standardized performance indicators, such as admissions tests.
• Attendees will be able to discuss what it means for a student to be correctly placed and the criteria by which a placement test should be evaluated.
• Attendees will be able to discuss validity considerations related to common placement practices, such as retesting and use of multiple measures.
• Attendees will be able to define the concept of restriction of range and discuss the impact of using a variable for selection on resulting validity studies.
• Attendees will be able to discuss relative strengths and weaknesses of different common approaches to validating placement tests.

Conference Track: Placement Testing

The best measure of a student's potential for success is a hot topic! At last year's NCTA conference, we highlighted the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system's two year journey of implementing Multiple Weighted Measures (MWM). We are back with data in hand! This session will cover a brief history of MnSCU's path to MWM and share Hennepin Technical College's first two semesters of MWM data. Come prepared with questions; there will be plenty of Q and A time.

Conference Track: Placement Testing

Changing trends in placement are impacting many institutions, causing them to review, select, and implement new placement tools. From English and math to foreign language, implementing a new placement tool can be a daunting process, especially for those with test center responsibility. While most test center managers are experts at test administration, we often find that the implementation of a new placement tool stretches the boundaries of this expertise, leaving many to wonder where to begin and how best to move forward.

From the perspective of both a university and a community college testing center, this workshop will focus on planning a placement tool implementation from start to go-live and include tips on identifying campus stakeholders, developing implementation and communication plans, and successfully launching the placement tool, as well as offering advice to keep you sane during the process. Whether you're just beginning the implementation of a new placement tool, are in the midst of the process, or are on the other side looking back, come to learn and share with colleagues tips and tricks, foibles and missteps, and successes in implementation.

Conference Track: Placement Testing

In an effort to assist with increasing student retention, Testing Services at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College has partnered with other student support areas on campus. Presenters will provide an overview of a cross-college departmental collaboration effort that was designed to improve service delivery to at-risk students. 20% of the students at UC Clermont can be categorized as at-risk as a result of academic under-preparedness. The Disability Services Office, Testing Services, and the College Success Program teamed up to provide a cohesive model of support to better serve students from the point of placement testing through their first semester and beyond. Presenters will share the model and discuss best practices. A discussion of resources and problems encountered will also take place. Time will be provided for questions and answers as well as group collaboration.

Conference Track: Placement Testing

When ACT announced the final administration date of COMPASS, many institutions were forced to name a successor. As colleges and universities begin to transition to their new exams, Test Administration Professionals (TAPs) in particular are being called upon to assist other departments that are severely impacted by these changes. This session should prepare TAPs to become the best possible campus resource for the exams by making them aware of how these exams will affect admissions and advising processes specifically. Additionally, this session will equip professionals to answer student inquiries regarding the articulation and transfer of developmental course credit.

Conference Track: Placement Testing

As you know, there are many colleges across the nation that recognize and are discussing the possible pitfalls of relying on a "single placement test" for course placement. . .and many of these are Compass users who are still discussing what they will be doing post-Compass. ACT has completed research on multiple dimensions of readiness and multiple measures to be utilized in course placement. This interactive session will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about this possible cost saving approach to course placement.

Conference Track: Placement Testing