Select the students whose English you want to test, set the time and date for the test, and click to send them an email.
Admin Panel Guide (video)Test takers complete the test in 30 minutes. All they need is a computer, tablet or mobile and a set of earphones.
Operations GuideThe results appear immediately in your Admin Panel, ready for sorting. And you can print out a certificate for each test taker.
Understanding ResultsYou'll see who has done it and who hasn't; when they did it; and how long they spent on it. You'll see a CEFR level for each test taker refined with a Relative Numeric. And for each test taker, the certificate shows their language level with relative strengths for Reading, Listening and Language Elements. It's a fully comprehensive report.
It is important to know a test taker's CEFR level, and where they stand within that level. You probably also want to understand how they performed in the three language areas the test covers: Reading, Listening and Language Elements (grammar and vocabulary). The relative strengths chart will show you this in graphical format.
The Admin Panel will generate a certificate for each test taker. This shows the CEFR level and where the candidate is placed within that level. This can be cross-referenced to other scales such as the CLB, IELTS or TOEFL (see the full list here). It also shows the relative strengths between Reading, Listening and Language Elements.
As each test taker finishes, teachers and administrators can access their report data: the date and time the test was taken, whether or not it was finished, time taken, CEFR level and a Relative Numeric locating the candidate within that level. The data can be exported to Excel (or similar) for further sorting.
For large-scale tests, your Account Manager will additionally compile an Admin report. This will summarise the test specification, including any special requirements, will tell you which devices were used, and will chart the test success statistics and draw a graph of the distribution of results.
The Dynamic Placement Test can save you time, effort and keep your costs down. Whether you are an employer or a university, take a look at how the Dynamic Placement Test has been used in three different contexts — and their individual outcomes.
Language testing is a key part of the recruitment process. Is there an efficient, secure, and accurate approach to online English testing? Katie Stokes discusses a successful case study.
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Amongst the many disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the closure of IELTS test centres and widespread postponement of IELTS tests. For most students, schools and universities this has brought the academic application process to a halt – but not for all.
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Universitas Indonesia, the number one ranking university in Indonesia, had their own English placement test — but language centre managers felt that a new generation needed a new approach.
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HOPES is funded by the EU Madad fund which aims to address the lack of higher education for Syrian refugees. It's a consortium of four European partners: the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the British Council, Campus France and Nuffic from the Netherlands.
Step one: get students through an English programme.This starts with the Dynamic Placement Test. Over the last 18 months, HOPES has run more than 7,000 tests...
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Becki George from Etherton Education explains why they have been using the Dynamic Placement Test for the last two years:
‘Etherton Education has been using Clarity's Dynamic Placement Test for about two years now to get an idea of the students' level of English prior to their arrival. Previously, we would conduct a paper-based placement test on the day the student arrived but this was incredibly stressful for all concerned...’
Imagine you’re testing up to 500 students, either online or offline and you want to invigilate the test. Let’s look at the procedure followed by National Taiwan University, who tested 388 students in one day.
Read about how Taiwan’s premier university ran their test in this document, which also outlines the procedures followed by the other two case studies in this section, HOPES and Etherton Education.
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Universitas Indonesia, the number one ranking university in Indonesia, had their own English placement test — but language centre managers felt that a new generation needed a new approach.
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In September 2019, the Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan ran a trial to determine whether they could use the Dynamic Placement Test to test the English of 1,525 new students, using their own devices. This report describes the trial and its outcomes.
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