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College and Career Readiness Defined
ACT defines college and career readiness as the acquisition of the knowledge and skills a student needs to enroll and succeed in credit-bearing, first-year courses at a postsecondary institution (such as a two- or four-year college, trade school, or technical school) without the need for remediation.
ACT’s definition of college and career readiness was adopted by the Common Core State Standards Initiative and provides a unifying goal upon which educators and policymakers must now act.
General Assembly School Grades:Proposed Indicators
Performance Composite (Elementary and High)
• Percent of proficient tests in a school− All tests, subjects, and grade levels− Uses the EOG/EOC test data
Algebra II/Integrated III
• Percent of graduates who take and pass Alg. II or Int. Math III− Excludes the 1% population
Graduation Rate• Percent of students that graduate within
4 years (4 year cohort graduation rate)
WorkKeys
• Percent of graduates who are CTE concentrators who achieve a Silver certificate, or better, on the WorkKeys assessment
ACT• Percent of college-ready benchmarks
met
North Carolina’s College and Career Readiness System
8th GradeScore Scale: 1—25 Test Window:
October 1-31, 2012
8th GradeScore Scale: 1—25 Test Window:
October 1-31, 2012
10th GradeScore Scale: 1—32 Test Window:
October 1-31, 2012
10th GradeScore Scale: 1—32 Test Window:
October 1-31, 2012
11th GradeScore Scale: 1—36 Test Date:
March 5, 2013
11th GradeScore Scale: 1—36 Test Date:
March 5, 2013
Longitudinal AssessmentsLongitudinal Assessments
12th Grade Career Readiness Gauge
12th Grade Career Readiness Gauge
Career/CTECareer/CTE
English, math, reading, science, optional Writing Test (ACT only)
Career and Educational Components
Students completing a CTE sequence
+ Writing
The College Readiness System is a comprehensive program intended to help states implement the policy actions necessary to help prepare every student for college and work. The system is a fully aligned, research-based solution.
ACT & Common Core College and career readiness and the Common Core State
Standards are competitive world wide.
These standards are high and challenging standards on their own.
www.act.org/commoncore
PLAN helps 10th graders build a solid foundation for future academic and career success. PLAN is a curriculum-based educational and career planning program that measures achievement in English, math, reading, and science. PLAN is designed to help 10th graders build rigorous high school course plans and identify areas of academic need so they can stay on track for college and work success.
MEASURING STUDENT PROGRESS TOWARD READINESS IMPROVING COURSE RIGOR
SUPPORTING SOLUTIONS
PLANNING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
EXPLORE
8th and 9th grade curriculum-based educational and career planning
program
PLAN
10th grade curriculum-based educational and career planning
program
The ACT
11th and 12th grade curriculum-
based assessment for learning outcomes
ENGAGE
Middle and high school assessment that measures all
factors of academic success
QualityCore
Research-driven solutions for
strengthening curriculum
CoreWork DiagnosticsOnline service to diagnose and improve
content and practice areas
Core Practice AuditFramework for evaluating current practices
PLAN
Grade 10 English, Mathematics, Reading, and
Science Total time for tests: 1 hour and 55
minutes Needs Assessment High School Course/Grade Information UNIACT Interest Inventory Educational Opportunity Service (EOS)
PLAN
ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks
Empirically derived 50% chance of achieving a B or higher or about a 75%
chance of achieving a C or higher in the corresponding credit-bearing college course
Test College Course PLAN ACT8th Grade 9th Grade
English English Composition 13 14 15 18
Math College Algebra 17 18 19 22
Reading Social Sciences 15 16 17 21
Science Biology 20 20 21 24
EXPLORE
Student Score Report - PLAN
ScoresCourse PlansCollege Readiness
BenchmarksCollege/Career
PlansNeeds AssessmentCareer Interest
Inventory Item Analysis
What do Your Scores Mean?
Composite Score 18Range(1-32)
Please Note:StateNorms areNotCurrentlyAvailable in NC; this column will be blank.
What is a Good ACT Score?
Depends on:1. Where you want to go to school2. How much scholarship money you
need3. NCAA Requirements
National Composite Average = 21.1North Carolina Composite Average = 21.9
A few North Carolina examples:
Middle 50% of 2011 freshman classes:
NC State Raleigh 23-28
UNC Chapel Hill 27-31
East Carolina University
20-24
Appalachian State 21-26
UNC Wilmington 22-26Source: ACT College Search and for iPhone® and
iPod® touchhttp://www.act.org/mobileapps/
NC College Readiness Benchmarks on PLAN:
NC College Readiness Benchmarks on ACT:
PLAN
English 15
Reading 17
Mathematics 19
www.careercollegenc.org/pathways-collegetransfer.htm
Early Intervention Roster
School-level reports that identify students who qualify under three possible categories: – Early Identification– Coursework Intervention– Need for Assistance
Prioritizes students that need or have requested attention.
Item Response Summary Report
Describes the item-by-item performance of your examinees.
Determine your students’ academic strengths and weaknesses relative to the skills and knowledge measured by the test items, and address apparent weaknesses at the content area level.
Item-Response Summary Report
This report provides tables describing the item-by-item performance of your PLAN examinees.
Item response results are categorized by: Test (e.g., English) Subscore (e.g., Usage/Mechanics) Content Area (e.g., Punctuation)
Provide comparisons to other students taking the same test form.
www.act.org/plan/pdf/ItemResponseSummaryGuide.pdf
The ACT is designed to assess 11th and 12th graders’ general learning outcomes. The ACT is a curriculum-based educational and career planning tool that assesses mastery of state and college readiness standards. Accepted by all four-year colleges and universities, it is the college entrance test most preferred nationwide.
MEASURING STUDENT PROGRESS TOWARD READINESS IMPROVING COURSE RIGOR
SUPPORTING SOLUTIONS
PLANNING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
EXPLORE
8th and 9th grade curriculum-based educational and career planning
program
PLAN
10th grade curriculum-based educational and career planning
program
The ACT
11th and 12th grade curriculum-
based assessment for learning outcomes
ENGAGE
Middle and high school assessment that measures all
factors of academic success
QualityCore
Research-driven solutions for
strengthening curriculum
CoreWork DiagnosticsOnline service to diagnose and improve
content and practice areas
Core Practice AuditFramework for evaluating current practices
The ACT
Key Facts about the ACT Accepted by all four-year colleges and universities in the United
States. The ACT can be a great equalizer for opportunity. Approved for use in state models for No Child Left Behind and
Annual Yearly Progress accountability. Enables school and district leaders to track student performance
with aggregate and standards-based reporting for past high school classes.
Used by many states as an instructional improvement program statewide to improve the college and career readiness of their students.
Raises college awareness and exposure among all students, rather than just self-selected, college-bound students, when used statewide.
Provides user-friendly information about how ACT’s tests align with state standards with the State Standards Match Reports.
Total time for tests: 2 hours and 55 minutes
English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science
Optional Writing Test (30 minutes) Needs Assessment High School Course/Grade Information UNIACT Interest Inventory Educational Opportunity Service (EOS)
The ACT
Direct link between what students have learned and what they are ready to learn next.
Suggested learning experiences provide links between the Standards in one score range and those in the next (higher) score range.
Ideas for progressing to the next score range demonstrate ways that information learned from standardized test results can be used to inform classroom instruction.
http://www.act.org/standard/
College Readiness Standards
Score Range
Basic Operations &Applications
Probability, Statistics,& Data Analysis
Numbers: Concepts & Properties
13-15 Standards Perform one-operation computation with whole numbers and decimals Solve problems in one or two steps using whole numbers Perform common conversions (e.g., inches to feet or hours to minutes)
Calculate the average of a list of positive whole numbers Perform a single computation using information from a table or chart
• Recognize equivalent fractions and fractions in lowest terms
Ideas for Progress
Investigate and build understanding of the concept of percentage as a comparison of a part to a whole use multiple operations to solve multistep arithmetic problems
solve real-world problems that involve measures of central tendency (e.g., mean, median, mode) interpret data from a variety of displays (e.g., box-and-whisker plot) and use it along with additional information to solve real-world problems conduct simple probability experiments and represent results using different formats
recognize and apply place value, rounding, and elementary number theory concepts
Mathematics
And statements thatprovide suggestions to
progress to a higher levelof achievement
Statements that describewhat studentsare likely to know and be able to do...