English Placement at CCC: Picking the Right Class for You!
Explore guided self-placement methods and assessment placement to determine the best English course for your level of experience at CCC. Assess your reading and writing skills through a series of questions to ensure appropriate course selection for college success.
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ENGLISH PLACEMENT AT CCC Picking the Right Class for You!
What is Guided Self-Placement? Guided self-placement is a method for determining which course is appropriate for your level of experience. Although we strongly encourage that students meet with an academic advisor for the best advice, self- placement can be used when meeting with an advisor is not possible. This presentation is intended to offer insight into the skills you will need for each English course offered at CCC so that you can make the best decision for your college success. In the next slides, you will be asked a series of questions related to reading and writing. Read the questions carefully. Write your answers to the questions on a piece of paper. Write the number of points associated with each response on a piece of paper. Tally these points at the end of the presentation to see which recommended course best fits your English skills.
Assessment Placement If you do not have access to your high school transcript and ACT/SAT scores, or you have been out of school for longer than 5 years, the following reading and writing assessment that appears in the next slides may be helpful in determining the best English course for you. In the following slides you will be asked a few questions pertaining to reading and writing. You will use your pen and paper to jot down your answer and the points associated with it. At the end of the presentation you will tally your points and refer to the recommended English course placement.
Step 1: Reading Skills Assessment Read the passage below and then answer the question on the following slide: With varying success, many women around the world today struggle for equal rights. Historically, women have achieved greater equality with men during periods of social adversity. The following factors initiated the greatest number of improvements for women: violent revolution, world war, and the rigors of pioneering in an undeveloped land. In all three cases, the essential element that improved the status of women was a shortage of men, which required women to perform many of society s vital tasks. Source: Accuplacer
Choose the Best Answer Choose the best answer to the question below. Be sure to write down your answer and the number of points associated with the answer. We can conclude from the information in this passage that A. women today are highly successful in winning equal rights (1 pt.) B. only pioneer women have been considered equal to men (2 pts.) C. historically, women have only achieved equality through force (3 pts.) D. historically, the principle of equality alone has not been enough to secure women equal rights (4 pts.) Source: Accuplacer
Step 2: Writing Skills Assessment To determine the best writing course for you, you will be asked a series of questions pertaining to the following skills: Sentence Skills Grammar Skills Punctuation Skills
Step 2a: Sentence Skills Read the sentence below and select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. (Write your answer on a piece of paper before proceeding to the next slide.) Stamp collecting being a hobby that is sometimes used in the schools to teach economics and social studies. A. being a hobby that is (no change) (1 pt.) B. is a hobby because it is (2 pts.) C. which is a hobby (3 pts.) D. is a hobby (4 pts.) Source: Accuplacer
Step 2b: Grammar Skills The following paragraph contains several inconsistent shifts in verb tense. Decide if the underlined selection needs to be revised or if it is correct as is. Although it was first produced in London in 1982, Caryl Churchill s classic play, Top Girls, is enjoying a revival on Broadway in 2008. The first production satirizesthe rampant greed of the Thatcher years, but the message of women s distinctive struggles still holds true. The memorable and innovative first act took place in a restaurant on a Saturday night as Marlene, the main character, celebrates her promotion to managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency. She is joined by five unusual women from history. The first character, Isabella Bird, is an actual nineteenth-century Scottish adventurer. In the play, she claimed to have avoided marriage and family willingly in order to enjoy her world travels. Lady Nijo, the second character, was based on a thirteenth-century Japanese concubine of the emperor. She had lost all of her four children over the course of the play and later becomes a Buddhist nun. The third woman is fictional: Dull Gret, a character in a sixteenth-century painting by Brueghel. She is supposedly a Dutch peasant woman who turned warrior against Spain when her children had been killed. The fourth character, Pope Joan, was based on a legendary figure who somehow managed to deceive the Catholic clergy and rise to the position of pope. She was undone when she gives birth to a child during a ceremonial parade. Last is another fictional character, Patient Griselda, from "The Clerk s Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. This peasant woman married a marquis and demonstrates her unquestioning obedience by giving up her two children at their births. All of these women tell their stories of suffering and sacrifice but also reveal their petty vanities and selfishness.
Grammar Skills Assessment Which option below would be an acceptable revision of the underlined selection? (Write your answer and the accompanying point value on a piece of paper.) A. satirized (4 pts.) B. has satirized (3 pts.) C. is satirizing (2 pts.) D. No revision is necessary (1 pt.) Source: Little Seagull Handbook
Step 2c: Punctuation Skills Assessment The following sentence may use commas incorrectly to set off a parenthetical or transitional expression. Select the answer option that has no comma errors; or, if the original sentence is correct, select No change. (Write your answer and the accompanying point value on a piece of paper.) Consider for example, Porter s advances in film editing, especially in the 1903 film, The Great Train Robbery. A. Consider, for example, Porter s advances in film editing, especially in the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery. (4 pts.) B. No change (3 pts.) C. Consider for example Porter s advances in film editing especially in the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery. (2 pts.) C. Consider for example Porter s advances in film editing especially, in the 1903, film The Great Train Robbery. (1 pt.) Source: Little Seagull Handbook
Self-Evaluation Results Tally the points associated with your Reading, Sentence, Grammar, and Punctuation Skills assessment responses for recommended placement below. A score of 14-16 out of a possible 16 suggests that you may want to consider ENG 101. A score of 11-13out of a possible 16 suggests that you may want to consider ENG 101A. A score of 9-11 out of a possible 16 suggests that you may want to consider taking ENG 099 and RDG 099 together. A score of below 9 out of a possible 16 suggests that you may want to consider ENG 095.
Course Descriptions Below, you will find course descriptions in order to understand what to expect in these courses. ENG 101 requires practice in writing, rhetoric, and reasoning, with emphasis on using the writing process to compose college-level essays. ENG 101A requires practice in writing, rhetoric, and reasoning, with emphasis on using the writing process to compose college-level essays. This course integrates foundational training in essay development, grammar and writing mechanics into the ENG 101 curriculum. ENG 095 focuses on principles of basic reading and writing skills through, vocabulary development, reading strategies, reading comprehension, recognizing reading and writing structures, grammar and punctuation, sentence structure, and concepts of paragraph and essay development. ENG 099 Integrates reading/critical thinking/writing approach to basic skills needed for success in college. Extensive writing practice with emphasis on the writing process, writing strategies and essay development. RDG 099is a multi-pronged approach that includes mastery of college reading skills enhanced with supplemental reading, critical thinking, and reading fluency activities.
