Fact-Sheet---Versant-English-Placement-Test---Scor

FactSheet©2011PearsonEducation,Inc.oritsaffiliate(s).Page1of1Versant™EnglishPlacementTestMappingtheVersantEnglishPlacementTesttotheCommonEuropeanFrameworkofReference(CEFR)TheCEFRispublishedbytheCouncilofEurope,andprovidesacommonbasisfordescribinglanguageproficiencyusingasix-levelscalefromA1(lowest),A2,B1,B2,C1,toC2(highest).TheVersantEnglishPlacementTestwaslinkedtotheCEFRusingdatafrompriorempiricalbenchmarkingstudiesonothertestsintheVersantsuite,notablytheVersantEnglishTestandtheVersantPro–Writingtest.DetailedreportsonthesestudiesareavailablefromPearsononrequest.TheVersantPlacementTestiscloselyalignedwiththeseotherVersanttestsinthat:thetasksandratingcriteriaarelargelythesame;thetestitemsarelinkedthroughItemResponseTheory(IRT)statisticalmodeling;andthescoringisequivalent.Thus,previouslyestablishedVersantscorerangesalignedwiththeCEFRlevelshavebeencarriedovertotheVersantEnglishPlacementtest,asshowninTable1.Notethat,becausethePlacementtestwasdesignedtoassesslowerproficiencytest-takersthanmostVersanttests,itdoesnotmapaboveC1.Table1.MappingofCEFRLevelswithVersantEnglishPlacementTestScores.VersantEnglishPlacementTest20–70CEFRlevelsA1-C120-23A123-32A133-45A246-55B156-67B268-70C1