Over half of colleges used the Accuplacer for placement into math and English courses; the Compass, which was taken off of the market last November due to
poor predictive validity, was the most commonly used assessment test for ESL (33 %), and was used by over 20 % of colleges for math and English.
In summary, the reliability and
validity data reported for the measures examined in this review are quite impressive, with two exceptions: (a) the quality of the psychometric data is
poor for the subscales of some measures, and (b) there is little concurrent or
predictive validity for most measures of perceived self - concept and self - esteem.