The testing being done at Rio Salado by Vernon Smith should confirm for the Languages ATF that the Minnesota test will meet our needs . Again, we are concerned about costs. As standardized tests go, the costs of the Minnesota are not unusual. But for small community colleges, getting money for language testing is going to be difficult. In each of the three languages there are four different test components, all computerized except the one to measure speaking and it is casette tape mediated.
Statistics are to be gathered to help in the reevaluation.
Coconino has so far carried the cost of printing the brochures for the outcomes of the Commonly Taught Languages. Again, we are thinking about the possibility of posting them where they can be downloaded and printed. In his ATAC Report, Mike Hensley discussed the language requirements for secondary education language majors. In that report, he stressed the need for LATF members to be sure that the languages courses these students will need are embedded at our institutions. The ASU report gave rise to a discussion about where languages are listed on the AGEC block.