MOVING TOWARD A COMMON GOAL:  READING EXIT EXAMS?
By Marcia Cassidy

 

More than a year ago, the Reading and Curriculum Committee met to begin a process of compiling and piloting a set of items that would measure exit competencies for Readings 4, 5 and 6 in the EAP program.

Since 2005, test items and passages have been gathered from TOEFL, SAT, ACT and CPT Exams.  Some passages were adapted to meet the approximate Readability  Levels for our courses.

The following is a timeline of activities in the process:

 

 

 

 

 

2006-1:
2005-3:

2005-2:

Paper tests were distributed to full-time and adjunct professors of reading courses                    
(Kendall Campus only)  Tests were hand-graded and cumulative scores obtained

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006-2:

 Items further edited and refined by committee members
 Extended piloting of alternate items (multi-campus)
 Alternate items and passages selected for phase 2 in order to create test bank
 Piloted in limited courses (Kendall Campus only)
Tests input into WebCT to obtain item analysis and discrimination statistics


Thanks to the Reading and Curriculum Committee:   Roy Schwab, Marcia Cassidy, and Helen Roland       

                                                         Thanks to the following professors for piloting the tests:

Marta Bret
Yordanka Hernandez
Margaret Shippey
Gerals Schwartz
Francisco Pinto-Torres
Mike Bowler
Janis Perez
Janet Miller
Jennifer Edwards-Goldsmith
Maria Lopez
Glenna Veiga
 

 

 

 

Natalya Fateyeva
Brad Stocker
Helen Roland
MArcia Cassidy
Roy Schwab
Myriam Prias
Kamla Bhagwandin
 

 

At the time of press, piloting of Phase 2 is ongoing, so some names may have been added.

Analysis of  statistics from WebCT and further editing are ongoing.  Establishing content validity for items and importing tests into ANGEL have yet to be done.

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