Re: assessment question

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

Yeah, I'd forgotten about the TASP, which I don't ordinarily have much
contact with.  Again, I think the money that gets spent to administer it
and to "remediate" the students who don't pass it would be better spend on
supporting students and teachers.

sara Kimball



On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Liz Buckley wrote:

> 
> James is taking about TASP which isn't a rising junior exam but must be
> taken in the semester that the student earns 9 hrs or before.  Our testing
> dept. has seen fit to excuse anyone from our Junior Level Essay if they have
> passed TASP which is supposed to test readiness for college level work.  We
> have the JLE, an essay which is scored by an ad hoc committee from all dept.
> I am not happy with it.  I'd love to see a portfolio of the work the student
> has done to this point.
> 
> Liz Buckley
> Texas A&M University-Commerce
> 
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