Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA24082; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:31:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:31:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s43e03e2.001@cal.org> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Fran Keenan <fran@cal.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:1454] ACT ESL test X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Status: RO Content-Length: 1421 Lines: 30 This is crossposted from NCBE Newsline, Week of October 6, 1997: ACT PLANS FALL 1998 INTRODUCTION FOR ESL TEST Next Fall, ACT will offer a comprehensive, computer-adaptive test in English as a Second Language (ESL). This new placement test for college and university use will include measures in reading, grammar, and usage, and listening. The test has been designed to accurately differentiate proficiency at all levels; from beginning to advanced; allow students to work at their own pace; provide suitable contexts for test items; and provide placement scores as well as proficiency descriptors based on student performance. The computer-adaptive test automatically adjusts to each examinee's level of skill. Correct answers prompt the computer to present increasingly difficult test items, while incorrect answers trigger easier ones. Thus, the computer is able to rapidly determine skill levels. The score reporting format allows institutions to collect relevant information about test takers and to record the scores they earn on local assessments, such as writing or speaking measures. The ACT ESL test will be available in Fall 1998. If you would like to have your institution participate in pretesting (requires involvement of 200 ESL students) or wish to be placed on the ESL update mailing list, call Eileen Forman at 319-337-1054; F: 319-337-1790; e-mail: FormanE@act.org (Activity, Autumn, 1997)
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