[NIFL-ASSESSMENT:213] Re: intake placement instruments

From: Cheryl Pyburn (cpyburn7@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 10:19:12 EDT


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In MASS we can only use BEST for class-to-class
movement, but not for the initial placement of a
student into a class. This seems to be true only in
Massachusetts though.
--- Kay Charron <kcharron@doe.state.vt.us> wrote:
> Why can't you use the BEST for placement?
> 
> Cheryl Pyburn wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > Any ideas about what to use for an initial
> placement
> > instrument since we can no longer use the BEST for
> > ESOL placement?  Right now our counselors are
> placing
> > students in classes based on a short conversation
> and
> > some sample writing; however, this doesn't seem to
> be
> > working -- students are being placed in classes
> that
> > are too low for them.
> >
> > What do other learning centers use?  Thanks.
> >
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