National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA)Efrain Mercado
Director of Outreach
April 29, 2010
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Measuring Progress Towards College and Career Readiness – Not Just State Standards
Lisa NguyenWebinar ModeratorNational Center for Educational Achievement
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Efrain MercadoDirector of OutreachNational Center for Educational Achievement
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The National Center for Educational Achievement is a non-profit, ACT organization committed to helping raise the bar on student achievement by providing educators and policymakers with best practice research and data-driven tools to prepare all students for postsecondary success.
College and Career Readiness For All
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Our Mission
Agenda 1. What is College and Career Readiness (CCR)? 2. How do we measure progress towards CCR?
3. NCEA’s Approach to Measuring Progress Towards CCR4. When do we measure progress towards CCR?4. Resources for Measuring Progress5. Q & A
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What is College and Career Readiness?
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A student is College and Career Ready when…
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a) they have passed all state tests at the proficient or passing level
b) they have received a high school diploma
c) they have graduated with honors/straight A’s from high school
d) they have applied and been accepted into a post-secondary institution (vocational school, university, or community college)
College and Career Readiness is a bigger concept.
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How does NCEA define College and Career Readiness?
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When a student has reached an academic achievement level that indicates they are likely to have success in post-secondary learning that leads to skilled careers, then they are college and career ready.
How do we measure progress towards College and Career Readiness?
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The Big Question
How?
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Passing/Proficient?Commended or Advanced?
College Readiness Benchmarks?
One Method:
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Using State Standards
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Math Reading Science
Percentage of Texas Students Proficient/Passing in 2009
But is it enough?
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Math Reading Science
Percent of Texas Students Hitting NCEA’s College and Career Readiness Targets in 2009
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Math Reading Science
Percentage of Arkansas Students Proficient/Passing in 2009
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Math Reading Science
Percentage of Arkansas Students Hitting NCEA’s College and Career Readiness Targets in 2009
What about commended or advanced?
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Now we know…
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Passing/Proficient is not enough.
Commended/Advanced is not anchored to anything and varies from state to state.
College Readiness Benchmarks
NCEA’s Approach to Measuring Progress Towards College and Career Readiness
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Identify College and Career Readiness Targets anchored to ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks
Identifying College and Career Readiness Targets
How does NCEA do this?
1. Linking to ACT College Readiness Benchmarks
2. Backwards-Mapping the Target3. Establish Students’ Yearly
Growth Goals
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Keeping Students on the Path to College and Career Readiness
NCEA’s CCR Ramp is a defined path to get students to college and career readiness.
• Students on the ramp must experience average growth to stay on the ramp.
• Students below the ramp must achieve faster than average growth.
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Another Big Question…
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When do we start measuring progress towards College and Career Readiness?
Even earlier?
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Senior Year?Junior Year?
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Using ACT’s College Readiness System
8th Grade -
10th Grade -
11th/12th Grade -
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8th/9th Grade
10th Grade
11th/12th Grade
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Resources for Measuring Progress• Using formative tests to check student
achievement along the way (e.g. benchmark assessments)
• Summative tests to see if students have reached College and Career Readiness standards (ACT’s College Readiness System)
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“Education is the process of training, growth, and development that enables the individual to
make satisfactory adjustments to ever-changing conditions and environments.”
Dr. Wesley L. BoykinNCEA’s Director of Research
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Q & A
Efrain MercadoDirector of Outreach
National Center for Educational Achievement
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1. Type in questions into the ‘Questions’ box.
2. To ask in, ‘Raise Hand’ and we will unmute you.
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More Resources:
Texas and Arkansas College and Career Readiness Charts for every public school:
http://nc4ea.org/index.cfm/e/initiatives.just_for_the_kids
What are ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks?
http://act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/benchmarks.pdf
The Texas Education Agency (TEA), in collaboration with ACT, is making the College Preparation Assessments (Texas Education Code 39.0261) available to the schools in your district. http://act.org/aap/texas/index.html
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Thank you for attending our webinar!
Contact:
Efrain [email protected]
512.320.1800