- School
- Drew University (Madison, NJ)
- Contact
- Sandra Jamieson
- Email
- sjamieso@drew.edu
- How long in use
- since 2006 (when we stopped requiring SAT scores)
- Notes/Comments
- Everyone takes a “Placement Confirmation Test” online over the summer (using iMoat), which includes: 1) an essay synthesizing three articles; 2) checklists for each level of the class; 3) an essay in which students use the checklist and their reading and writing experience to argue that we should accept their self-placement decision. The difficulty of the synthesis essay gives them a sense of what we expect —quite a few who have already registered change their registration (wisely) after taking the test, so it does function to guide them. Our Common Reading essay is also submitted through the iMoat portal, and students say this sends a strong message about how seriously we take reading and writing and signals that they should take the placement process seriously. BTW: most of our placement “conversations” are with students who place themselves into the year-long stretch course because they lack confidence in their writing skills when we think they can handle the one semester FYC (yes, we are gathering data about that!)
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