SSUA School of Foreign Languages believes that testing and assessment is an important part of education. Accordingly, the Testing and Assessment Office has established the principle that assessment of learning should be made professionally and in order to achieve this, they have some practices. Some of them are as follows:

• Monitoring the learning process of students and following a modular system in order to address their need to learn a language. With the placement exam, students are located to the appropriate classes by taking their learning pace into consideration during the learning periods.
• The testing and assessment tools are prepared by taking the learning outcomes into consideration. In accordance with this purpose, they coordinate with the curriculum office.
• The preparation process of the testing and assessment tools is carried out by following the workflow which has been assigned before and finalized after the feedback process.
• The testing and assessment tools aim at assessing the acquisition of the four skills and their sub-skills.
• The results of testing and assessment tools are used to give students feedback about their learning process.

SSUA School of Foreign Languages the Testing and Assessment Office gives importance to personnel training in the testing and assessment field as well as preparing and administering exams. For that purpose, office members attend various training courses in their own country or abroad. One example of these courses that the testing office members have hosted and attended is Forum on Assessment Issues (FOAI), which has been organized for Testing and Assessment Offices in the Schools of Foreign Languages of the universities in Turkey and TMC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus).  SSUA Testing and Assessment Office has attended several of these forums and also hosted one of them. As well as continuous in-service training, standardization meetings are held during the marking process to increase the reliability and validity of the exams.

In addition, because of insufficient training courses about item writing and administration of exams in Turkey and in the world, SSUA School of Foreign Languages the Testing and Assessment Office has organized SSUA-TAP (Social Sciences University of Ankara - Testing and Assessment Program), which includes three different modules, for the national and international item writers that are interested in testing and assessment.

SSUA - HOW TO ATTEND ENGLISH PREP SCHOOL / WAYS FOR EXEMPTION FROM THE PREP SCHOOL

The following charts show how to attend English prep school and how to exempt from it. These conditions are applicable for everyone that has just been accepted to the graduate, undergraduate and postgraduate programs of the university.

The ones that have studied in English prep school but failed at the end of their first year due to low achievement or absenteeism have to follow the same steps in the chart.

Chart 2 includes SSUA-EPE content.

Determining the level of students and placing them to the classes

The students that start the prep school program based on the scores they have got from the SSUA English Placement Test (EPT) and SSUA EPE are placed in the appropriate classes. SSUA-EPT is comprised of 80 questions and it assesses students not only in terms of their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary but also in reading and listening skills. SSUA-EPE content is shown in Chart-2.

Level Assessment system 

Quizzes, end of course tests and make-up exams are administered during the prep school program. These exams might be written, oral or online. During the prep school program, the assessment system in each level (8-week education + 1 week for testing and assessment) are detailed in Chart 3.

In order to be successful at a level, students are expected to score a minimum 75% of all parts included in the level assessment system. Quizzes are administered in the 3^rd, 5^th, and 7^th weeks. The End of Course Test is administered in the 9^th week.

Objection to exam results

Students can object to their exam results in the following three days after the announcement of scores by writing a petition letter to the Foreign Languages Directorate. The objection is examined by the testing office and students are given a written report in three working days.