The Collegiate Learning Assessment is a national program of the Council for Aid to Education. It offers participating institutions an opportunity to assess the critical writing skills of freshmen and seniors, and view evidence of progress in this important skill area. This internet-based assessment is offered to freshmen in the fall and seniors in the spring by the office of Testing, Evaluation & Assessment. Institutions receive complete data files at the end of the testing year, while students are given access to their scores online along with a comparison of their performance to students who also took the assessment. The Collegiate Learning Assessment is a component of the Voluntary System of Accountability for many institutions such as ours.
The Collegiate Learning Assessment will be administered once again in the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013. Demonstrations of the assessment will be available to faculty and staff this fall and spring. Dates for these will be posted on this website as they become available.
Results of the last completed administration of the Collegiate Learniing Assessment from the 2011-2012 academic year are summarized in the tables below. For the complete report, please click here. Value-added and precision estimates can be found on page 3 of this report.
| CSULB Freshman Performance Fall 2011 | |||||
n |
Mean Score |
Mean Score Percentile Rank |
25th Percentile Score |
75th Percentile Score |
|
Total CLA Score |
122 |
1201 |
97 |
991 |
1110 |
Performance Task |
61 |
1197 |
94 |
985 |
1117 |
|
Analytic Writing Task |
61 |
1204 |
96 |
995 |
1106 |
n=number of freshmen who participated; a total of 122 freshmen took the CLA in fall 2011; of these, 61 were randomly assigned the performance task and the remaining 61 were assigned the analytic writing task Mean score= average score of CSULB freshmen on the CLA overall and on the particular task they completed Mean score percentile rank= percent of participating CLA schools with lower performance than CSULB students 25th and 75th percentile scores = average scores at the 25th and 75th percentile ranks for participating CLA schools |
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| CSULB Senior Performance Spring 2012 | |||||
n |
Mean Score |
Mean Score Percentile Rank |
25th Percentile Score |
75th Percentile Score |
|
Total CLA Score |
117 |
1231 |
80 |
1108 |
1220 |
Performance Task |
59 |
1249 |
82 |
1115 |
1229 |
|
Analytic Writing Task |
58 |
1213 |
74 |
1107 |
1214 |
n=number of seniors who participated; a total of 117 freshmen took the CLA in fall 2011; of these, 61 were randomly assigned the performance task and the remaining 61 were assigned the analytic writing task Mean score= average score of CSULB freshmen on the CLA overall and on the particular task they completed Mean score percentile rank= percent of participating CLA schools with lower performance than CSULB students 25th and 75th percentile scores = average scores at the 25th and 75th percentile ranks for participating CLA schools |
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