CASA - Advising - Notebook

 

OLD ranges (test taken in language lab):  These scores are effective prior to May 15, 2006.

• Students take the placement test online through an FLL home page link:

 

http://webcape.byuhtrsc.org?acct=colostate

Password:     rams1      (all lower case)

• Scores will be entered in ISIS from 1 to 3 days after  the test is completed.  When Aries is active the scores will probably -e downloaded automatically (time frame?).

 

• Cannot remember class level or score?  Students can look up scores by reentering the CAPE system, typing in information exactly as when the exam was initially taken and click Resume.  If this is not feasible, an advisor or FLL can look up the score on Aries and use the chart above to place the student.  If the score is not in Aries, then either the test was taken too recently for the score to have downloaded from the test website, or the student did not provide enough or accurate identifying information, or the student did not complete the test. 

• There is a one-time-per-language charge of $10.00 to the student=s account.

 

• Students can repeat the test without charge.  At the student’s request we will increase the score one level if the student is confident the score is a false low.  If the student feels the score is a false high, then call the department office to find out who (a teacher in the target language) the student should speak to a-out lowering the score. 

• Any student with training in the language must take the test (this includes high school study and heritage speakers).  Students with NO training or exposure to the language do NOT have to take the test; they simply enroll in 105.

 

• Any student transferring in college-level language credit (including AP and IB) should NOT take the language placement test.  Exact equivalents in transfer work will meet prerequisite requirements.  Students who expect to earn AP or IB credit after they register during Preview, should be warned to compare their Transfer Evaluation with their upcoming schedule; it is common to repeat coursework.

• High placement scores will NOT earn placement credit.  In fact, AL@ placement credit no longer exists.

 

• Placement tests in languages other than French, German, or Spanish must be done by instructors in that field at the beginning of the semester.  Have the student either contact the department office, or arrange to simply go to a class at the beginning of the semester to speak with the instructor.

• The department reserves the right to disenroll students from courses for which they are over-qualified.  Students should be encouraged to speak to their instructors at the beginning of the semester with questions if they are not sure whether they are placed correctly. 

 

• We do NOT do competency tests in order for students to satisfy AUCC categories.  This includes international students for whom English is their foreign language.

 

Carol.Hughes@Colostate.edu                                                                        Foreign Languages and Literatures
(970) 491-6141                                                                                   C104 Clark
                                

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