Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC), a large, public community college in California was one of the first colleges in the state to implement mandatory assessment and placement of students into English, math, ESL, and reading classes. Under this approach, students were required to schedule appointments with the Assessment Center and come to campus to complete at least two placement tests: a holistically graded writing sample scored by a minimum of two English faculty and one of four level tests for math. The results of the placement tests were then manually entered by staff and interpreted by the counseling department during their mandatory New Student Orientation. The whole process would normally take several days to complete, especially during peak registration times. It was labo

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