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When language program administrators consider changing a placement test, there are many issues to address. Will the scores help us place students into our curriculum? Will the scores reflect real differences in students' abilities? Will the administration of the test be feasible? This article describes one program's deliberations between keeping an in-house test or adopting a commercial test for speaking...