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    Placement Assessments

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    Placement assessments are used before a course begins to determine a student's current skills and knowledge in subjects like reading, writing, and math. This information is used to match students with courses at an appropriate level to meet their individual needs. Diagnostic assessments also test a student's existing knowledge before a unit or topic, in order to inform lesson planning and identify areas for teachers to spend more or less time on. They are low-stakes and do not count towards a student's grade. Examples include pre-tests on Ancient Greece given to see what background knowledge students have on its geography, history, and culture.

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    Placement assessments are used before a course begins to determine a student's current skills and knowledge in subjects like reading, writing, and math. This information is used to match students with courses at an appropriate level to meet their individual needs. Diagnostic assessments also test a student's existing knowledge before a unit or topic, in order to inform lesson planning and identify areas for teachers to spend more or less time on. They are low-stakes and do not count towards a student's grade. Examples include pre-tests on Ancient Greece given to see what background knowledge students have on its geography, history, and culture.

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    Placement assessments are used before a course begins to determine a student's current skills and knowledge in subjects like reading, writing, and math. This information is used to match students with courses at an appropriate level to meet their individual needs. Diagnostic assessments also test a student's existing knowledge before a unit or topic, in order to inform lesson planning and identify areas for teachers to spend more or less time on. They are low-stakes and do not count towards a student's grade. Examples include pre-tests on Ancient Greece given to see what background knowledge students have on its geography, history, and culture.

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    Placement assessments 

    are used to “place” students into a course, course level, or academic


    program. For this reason, placement assessments are administered before a course or
    program begins, and the basic intent is to match students with appropriate learning
    experiences that address their distinct learning needs.

    The purpose of placement testing is to determine your current level of skills and
    knowledge in reading, writing and math. This information determines the most
    appropriate courses for your enrolment.

    The College Placement Assessment is an entrance examination that is a required


    part of the admissions process for many community colleges and other schools
    in the United States.

    The PEPT, or the Philippine Educational Placement Test, is an exam given by the
    Department of Education, through the Bureau of Education Assessment, to see if
    homeschooled children or out-of-school youth have the skills needed to enter formal
    schooling at a certain level.

    What are Diagnostic Assessments?


    Diagnostic assessments are pretests.  They usually serve as a barometer for how
    much pre-loaded information a student has about a topic. The word diagnosis is
    defined as an analysis of the nature or condition of a situation, which is exactly how
    teachers tend to use them.
    Diagnostic tests help to tell the teacher (and the student) how much they know and
    don’t know about an upcoming topic. This helps to inform the teacher’s lesson
    planning, learning objectives, and identify areas that may need more or less time
    spent on.

    Components of a Diagnostic Assessment


     Happen at the beginning of a unit, lesson, quarter, or period of time.
     Goal of understanding student’s current position to inform effective instruction
     Identify strengths and areas of improvement for the student
     Low-stakes assessments (Usually do not count as a grade)

    Diagnostic Assessments Examples


    At the beginning of a unit on Ancient Greece, a teacher may give a pre-test to determine
    if the class knows the basic geography, history or culture.  The class’ responses will
    determine where the teacher begins and how much time is dedicated to certain topics. 
    The teacher may learn from this diagnostic assessment that many students already
    have knowledge on cultural aspects of Greece, but know little about its history. From
    this, they may adjust the lesson plan to spend a bit more time on the history and origins
    of Ancient Greece and slightly less on culture.
    Keep In Mind  
    Another valuable use of a diagnostic pre-test is to give the students an idea of what they
    will have learned by end of the learning period.  When combined with a post test, their
    score on a pre-test will show students just how much knowledge they have gained.
    This can be a powerful practice for building esteem in students.   In fact, some teachers
    even use the same pre-test and post-test to make this difference more evident. This
    strategy provides great data on how students have progressed is a sure-tell way to
    measure and analyze growth over the year.
    The grading scale for a diagnostic assessment is usually not based on the number of
    correct answers and holds little weight for a student’s final grade. You might consider
    this type of test to be a low-stakes assessment for students.

    Diagnostic Assessment Tools 


    Teachers who use Edulastic, develop diagnostic assessments in a number of creative
    ways including introductory activities as well as classic multiple-choice or tech-
    enhanced “quizzes”. The automated grading feature of Edulastic makes it easy to
    instantly know how much information the class as a whole already knows.

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