Placement test specifics

The process is:

• The tester needs a stopwatch.
• Students are tested individually, in a quiet place, away from other students who are to be tested later.
• Fill in the top lines of the test form with student information. This is the form, the tester will record on. Give the student a clean copy of the test.
• Part one, is a story that students read aloud. Part one is timed and the tester records errors.
• Omitting a word, adding a word, misidentifying a word, not responding within three seconds and self-correcting all count as errors. If a student sounds out a word but does not say it at a normal speaking rate, ask what word? If the student does not identify it, count it as an error.

• After each word-identification error, tell the student the correct word.
• Refer to the placement schedule for Part 1 to determine placement or whether to administer another part of the test.
• Part II is a series of sentences that students read aloud. Part II is not timed. The tester records errors.
• Refer to the placement schedule for Part II to determine student’s placement.
• Part III and IV are passages that are read aloud by the student and timed.
• Errors are recorded as specified for Part I.
• Refer to the placement schedule for Part III to determine placement or whether to administer Part IV of the test.
• If Part IV is given, refer to the placement schedule to determine student’s placement.