The Collegiate Learning Assessment is a national program of the Council for Aid to Education. It offers participating institutions an opportunity to test the critical writing levels 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 Testing & Evaluation Services. 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 how they performed in relation to students who also took the assessment. The Collegiate Learning Assessment is an important component of the Voluntary System of Accountability for many institutions such as ours.
Demonstrations of the Collegiate Learning Assessment are offered to faculty and staff twice a year. Dates for these will be posted on this website as they become available.
Results for the 2007-2008 academic year are summarized in the tables below; for the complete report, please click here.
| Part A: CSULB Freshmen Fall 2007 | |||||
n |
Mean SAT Score |
Expected CLA Score |
Actual CLA Score |
Performance Level |
|
Total CLA Score |
100 |
1070 |
1077 |
1158 |
Well Above |
Performance Task |
53 |
1055 |
1056 |
1138 |
Well Above |
|
Analytic Writing Task |
47 |
1084 |
1093 |
1177 |
Well Above |
n=number of freshmen who participated; a total of 100 freshmen took the CLA; of these, 53 were randomly assigned the performance task, and the remaining 47 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 2008 | |||||
n |
Mean SAT Score |
Expected CLA Score |
Actual CLA Score |
Performance Level |
|
Total CLA Score |
91 |
1034 |
1141 |
1221 |
Well Above |
Performance Task |
49 |
1032 |
1127 |
1210 |
Well Above |
|
Analytic Writing Task |
42 |
1035 |
1153 |
1232 |
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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