The placement assessment program's sole intent
is to best service DePaul students by enabling them to chose the appropriate
courses given their present skills and interests. The more accurate these
assessments are the better the student's experience will be with their courses
at DePaul. Given this, it does not
benefit anyone in anyway to use unauthorized help in the assessment process, nor
does it benefit anyone not to take the placement assessment
program seriously. Those students who end-up with an artificially high
assessment score may be placed in a course too difficult for them - only serving
to increase the changes of them doing poorly in such a course.
Those who end-up with an artificially low score may be placed in a course
too trivial for them. In either case, the result is that the course in
which the student is placed will be a waste of time and money for both the
student and the university.
Moreover, as a newly-admitted student of DePaul University,
you 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 Mathematics and Writing Assessments online,
you will be testifying that you have done the work yourself and that you have
not received unauthorized help.
