Assessment & Placement
As part of DePaul University's commitment
to personalism as well as to teaching, all new students meet individually
with an academic advisor before they even begin their first classes.
Your first advising meeting will take place during your Premiere DePaul or
Transfer Transition program. Your advisor will discuss your transcripts, your placement
scores, and help you register for your first classes.
DePaul's Assessment and Placement
programs are designed to direct you to the math and writing courses for
which you are best prepared. Your placement is based on our assessment
of your standardized test scores (ACT, SAT, AP, for example), your prior
academic work, and our math and writing assessments. No single
factor alone determines your placement.
The Mathematics Assessment is a series of
exercises in computational skills, basic algebra, and college algebra.
The Writing Assessment is an essay on an assigned topic. Your results
are combined with the rest of your academic profile to generate
placement. To learn more about academic profiles, please click here.
The Online Option
As a newly-admitted, degree-seeking
undergraduate student at DePaul, you should have registered with the
Office
of Academic Enhancement for the Premier DePaul or Transfer Transition program
linked to this online assessment option. By the second week of June, you
will have received a mailing from the Assessment Center with your Login Name and
Password, which will grant you access to both the Online Writing Assessment
Website and the Online Mathematics Assessment Website. You cannot take this online option unless you have registered
for the companion orientation program.
For a schedule of online Assessments, please
click here.
Students interested in the Modern Languages Assessments, please click here.
Online
versus Onsite
The content of
the online math assessments is very similar to the onsite version. One major
difference between the two assessments (other than location) is that
students taking the online option will be required to take all five parts
of the math assessment, while onsite
participants may be exempt from taking some or all of the math or writing
assessments.
The online and onsite writing assessments
differ, as well. Although they write essentially the same assignments,
students who take the online writing assessments have a four-day window to
complete their assessments, and they can compose their essays at their own pace, using
their favorite word processor, and at a place of their own choosing.
Students who take their writing assessments onsite have 50 minutes to write
their essay, using paper and pencil, and they compose assignment during their
orientation program along with other new students in a large
auditorium, at a desk, using pen and paper, and within 50 minutes.
The Onsite
Option (Traditional Paper and Pencil)
Students
who are not participating in the online option will take their placement
assessments (including modern language assessments during their
orientation program onsite (on DePaul University's Lincoln Park Campus).
Honesty
Policy
As a newly-admitted student, you
also are responsible for honoring the University's Code of
Conduct.
The work you submit must be in every sense your own efforts, your
own work. You must not have someone help you answer questions,
for example, because the assessment will not reflect your own efforts.
You must not copy material written by someone else in your placement essay,
for you would not be submitting your own work. In submitting your
Math and Writing Assessments online, you will be testifying that you have
done the work yourself and that you have not received unauthorized help.
