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 2010 and the spring of 2011. 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 for the last administration of the Collegiate Learniing Assessment, given in the 2008-2009 academic year, are summarized in the tables below. For the complete report, please click here.
| Part A: CSULB Freshmen Fall 2008 | |||||
n |
Mean SAT Score |
Expected CLA Score |
Actual CLA Score |
Performance Level |
|
Total CLA Score |
152 |
1050 |
1087 |
1197 |
Well Above |
Performance Task |
76 |
1054 |
1068 |
1165 |
Well Above |
|
Analytic Writing Task |
76 |
1045 |
1105 |
1229 |
Well Above |
n=number of freshmen who participated; a total of 152 freshmen took the CLA in fall 2008; of these, 76 were randomly assigned the performance task, and the remaining 76 were assigned the analytic writing task Mean SAT score=SAT math + verbal, ACT composite, or scholastic level exam scores on the SAT scale Expected CLA score=mean score on the Collegiate Learning Assessment predicted by the mean score on the SAT Actual CLA score=actual performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment scaled in the same manner as the SAT Performance Level=assessment of how well students did on the CLA relative to what was expected |
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| Part A: CSULB Seniors Spring 2009 | |||||
n |
Mean SAT Score |
Expected CLA Score |
Actual CLA Score |
Performance Level |
|
Total CLA Score |
100 |
1104 |
1216 |
1264 |
Above |
Performance Task |
49 |
1102 |
1184 |
1205 |
At |
|
Analytic Writing Task |
51 |
1106 |
1249 |
1323 |
Well Above |
n=number of seniors who participated; a total of 91 seniors took the CLA; of these, 49 were randomly assigned the performance task, and the remaining 42 were assigned the analytic writing task Mean SAT score=SAT math + verbal, ACT composite, or scholastic level exam scores on the SAT scale Expected CLA score=mean score on the Collegiate Learning Assessment predicted by the mean score on the SAT Actual CLA score=actual performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment scaled in the same manner as the SAT Performance Level=assessment of how well students did on the CLA relative to what was expected |
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