Compass/ESL Assessment
Another Alternative for Placement - Offered by ACT
El Centro students take ESL exams for placement into ESOL course sequences.
At El Centro College, ESOL courses are available as a result of the ESL Assessment. These are for students whose primary language is NOT English and students who were raised with English, but have difficulty with the language.
Over 1,050, 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities across the country use the Compass/ESL Assessment. These colleges serve over 1,600,000 new students with the placement, ESL, diagnostic, and/or e-write measures; assisting and advising these students as they prepare to succeed in college.
The El Centro College Assessment Center administers the ESL component of the Compass. This test is primarily given to Continuing Education students. ESL is one of the 4 different types of instruments in the Compass system.
ESL tests: Listening, Reading and Writing, Grammar Usage.
Measurements:
- Placement tests
- Writing skills
- Reading
- Math (Pre-Algebra through College Algebra)
- Trigonometry for placement into Calculus I
- Diagnostic test - 26 specific skills measured to pinpoint needs of under-prepared students
- Writing skills
- Reading
- Math
- ESL tests (listening, reading, grammar usage)
- ESL-D (Continuing Education)
- ESOL (College Readiness)
- E-Write
- Direct writing assessment
- Student writes essay on computer
- Writing is instantly scored with results immediately integrated into the COMPASS/ESL student report
Contact Continuing Education Division for more information at 214.860.2147.
Assessment Center: 214.860.2178