Welcome to Assessment
What Are The Services Offered By The Assessment Center?
The Assessment Center offers placement and diagnostic testing through Compass/ESL. Testing is done in Mathematics, English reading, writing, and grammar, and English as a Second Language, or (ESL) otherwise known as Language Acquisition. The Assessment Center offers a variety of Assessment Services to Students to include:- Discover / Career Asssessment
- “Ability to Benefit” Financial Aid eligibility testing.
- Accomodations For Students With Special Needs
Discover Testing
Discover an on-line career assessment tool. It provides all the important element of a complete career and educational planning program such as:
- Self awareness activities
- A career bank with thousands of careers
- A focus on abilities, interest, experiences and work related values.
- Activities to assist students to select an academic major that will lead to the career of their choice
Ability to Benefit (Financial Aid Eligibility Testing)
In December 1990 the US Department of Education issued a policy to make certain that students who wanted to attend college (a post secondary institution) and needed financial aid must have a high school In December 1990 the US Department of Education issued a policy to make certain that students who wanted to attend college (a post-secondary institution) and needed financial aid must have a high school diploma or GED. In the event that a student did not earn a high school diploma or GED the student needed to prove that he/she has the ability to benefit from college. Subsequently, any student who does not have a High School Diploma or GED and wants to enroll in college and receive Financial Aid must take the “Ability to Benefit test” and pass all three sections of the test at the time of testing.
For more information click here: Financial Aid Department
Accommodations for students with Special Needs
Special accommodations are made for students with special needs. COMPASS/ESL is a comprehensive computer adaptive testing system that helps maximize the information the college needs to ensure your success as a student!
For more Information click here: DSPS Department
