Program Evaluation: Student Improvement and Teaching Effectiveness

[For all inquiries regarding student improvement and teaching effectiveness, please contact Dr. Lixia Cheng (clixia@purdue.edu), PLaCE Associate Director of Evaluation.]

PLaCE administrators use ACE-In scores as pre-post measures to track students’ longitudinal language development and as a key source of evidence in evaluating the effectiveness of the SCLA 110-111 course sequence. Cheng and Li (2023) present quantitative statistical analyses and data visualizations of proficiency gains in the ACE-In Listen & Repeat section for the Fall 2017-Spring 2018 cohort.

Click here to view the information about the Assessment of College English-International (ACE-In) test.

Reference

Cheng, L., & Li, X. (2023). Pre-Post elicited imitation: Documenting student gains in the Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange. In Yan, X., Dimova, S., & Ginther, A., (Eds.), Local Language Testing: Practice across Contexts (pp. 103–125). New York, NY: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33541-9_6