Demonstrate Higher Education Program Effectiveness
The Territorium E-Proficiency Profile (“EPP”) with Official Content by ETS is a general education outcomes assessment of core skills used by higher ed institutions to demonstrate program effectiveness, assessing and demonstrating student learning while optimizing institutional time and resources
E-Proficiency Profile - general education outcomes assessment
Assess and demonstrate student learning while optimizing your time and resources with the Territorium E-Proficiency Profile (EPP) with Official Content by ETS. This general education outcomes assessment measures four core skill areas — reading, writing, mathematics, and critical thinking — in a single efficient, convenient test.
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- New users must complete the EPP New Account Information Form
- Current users may order directly from their EPP Online Account
Meet requirements for accreditation and accountability initiatives and performance funding
Evaluate and inform teaching and learning to pinpoint strengths and areas of improvement
Benchmark performance with comparative data for almost 400 institutions and more than 600,000 students nationwide
Offer custom content through a variety of testing formats
Use data to identify trends to evaluate program improvement efforts and overall learning outcomes
E-Proficiency Profile Content
Skills Measured
The ETS Proficiency Profile is a test of college-level skills in reading, writing, critical thinking and mathematics designed to measure the academic skills developed through general education courses, rather than the subject knowledge specifically taught in those courses.
All of the subject knowledge required to answer each question is contained in the question itself or the supporting materials that accompany the question.
Sample Questions
Learn more about the skills measured, contexts covered and the difficulty of the questions.
College-level reading questions measure students’ ability to:
- interpret the meaning of key terms
- recognize the primary purpose of a passage
- recognize explicitly presented information
- make appropriate inferences
- recognize rhetorical devices
College-level writing questions measure students’ ability to:
- recognize the most grammatically correct revision of a clause, sentence or group of sentences
- organize units of language for coherence and rhetorical effect
- recognize and reword figurative language
- organize elements of writing into larger units of meaning
Critical thinking questions measure students’ ability to:
- distinguish between rhetoric and argumentation in a piece of nonfiction prose
- recognize assumptions
- recognize the best hypothesis to account for information presented
- infer and interpret a relationship between variables
- draw valid conclusions based on information presented
Mathematics questions measure students’ ability to:
- recognize and interpret mathematical terms
- read and interpret tables and graphs
- evaluate formulas
- order and compare large and small numbers
- interpret ratios, proportions and percentages
- read scientific measuring instruments
- recognize and use equivalent mathematical formulas or expressions