English and Reading Cut-Scores Presented to a Joint Sub-Committee Of the Student Success Committee (English & ESL faculty) 06/06/2012 Tomorrow’s College Today.

Subtitle here Goals for today’s meeting Review data analysis performed on students taking the Sentence Skills and Reading Comprehension tests Review Accuplacer Program Manual’s proficiency statements for Sentence Skills and Reading Comprehension Set Cut-Score for the new Reading Comprehension component of the English placement test Adjust Cut-Score for the Sentence Skills component of the English placement test is necessary

Subtitle here # of Students 1,189 students took the English Placement Test (Sentence Skills) between January 2011 and December placed into English C placed into English C placed into English C placed into English C097

Subtitle here # of Students 1,189 students took the English Placement Test (Sentence Skills) between January 2011 and December placed into English C100 – 146 enrolled 305 placed into English C099 – 58 enrolled 77 placed into English C098 – 14 enrolled 29 placed into English C097 – 2 enrolled

Subtitle here English C100 results 110 out of 146 received a passing Grade (A,B,C) = 75% This group’s success rate is equal to the success rate of all Coastline students taking English C100 = 75% Among students with a passing grade:SS = 103RC = 93 Both the SS and RC test scores range from 0 to 120 points

Subtitle here English C099 results 41 out of 58 received a passing grade = 71% Among students with a passing grade: SS = 70RC = 62

Subtitle here English C098 results 11 out of 14 received a passing grade = 79% Among students with a passing grade: SS = 44RC = 35

Subtitle here English C097 results 2 out of 2 received a passing Grade (A,B,C) Among students with a passing grade:SS = 31RC = 29

Subtitle here Scores

Subtitle here New Cut-Scores

Subtitle here Accuplacer’s Suggested Cut-Scores

Subtitle here Final Combined Cut-Score