1. Proctored & Unproctored Placement Testing Tailored to Curriculum MAA Regional Meeting, Denver 2012 Steve Benoit Department of Mathematics Colorado State University benoit@math.colostate.edu David Anton Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming danton@uwyo.edu

2. Placement Testing Tailored to Curriculum Introductory Mathematics Courses at CSU Mathematics Placement at CSU Developing a Placement Exam Sample Items

3. CSU Courses College Algebra I (1 cr) College Algebra II (1 cr) Logarithms and Exponentials (1 cr) Numerical Trigonometry (1 cr) Analytic Trigonometry (1 cr) Mathematics for the Social Sciences (3 cr)

4. CSU Mathematics Placement One attempt unproctored (from home) Two attempts proctored for possible credit Unproctored attempts validated against SAT/ACT scores, survey responses

5. Developing a Placement Exam Static Tests –0.9 reliability correlation (Chronbach’s alpha) Randomized Tests Outcomes rule sets – subtests can use any mix of problems, and SAT/ACT scores

6. Mathematics Placement Exams Colorado State University (since 2005) 50 randomized questions 10,234 proctored exams delivered 23,252 unproctored exams delivered University of Wyoming (since 2010) 50 randomized questions 1,045 unproctored exams delivered