Our second issue focused on the opportunity to leverage rigorous, aligned statewide assessments in high school and use them as early
college readiness indicators for placement into credit - bearing courses.
Our first issue focused on the opportunity to leverage rigorous, aligned statewide assessments in high school and use them as early
college readiness indicators for placement into credit - bearing courses.
Not exact matches
For high schools:
college - and career -
readiness indicator (AP, IB,
college credit, industry certification).
Based on their research, they developed the National
College and Career
Readiness Indicators, a multi-metric index that offers a truer picture of whether students are ready
for life after high school than you get from simply looking at standardized test scores.
Texas's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan counts the
College, Career, and Military
Readiness indicator as 40 % of the School Quality and Student Success (SQSS) measure
for high schools.
Creates
college and career
readiness indicators for high school recognizing multiple pathways
for students, including measuring dual enrollment, performance on national assessments that exceeds a
college - ready benchmark, and earning industry recognized credentials, among others.
Prior to joining the NCTR team, she co-developed a
college readiness indicator system that school districts nationwide are using to help a greater number of students finish high school prepared
for college.
College - readiness indicators for «on - track» and «highly qualified» students were analyzed for school districts in Nassau County, NY using logistic regression to determine if there is a relationship with the desired outcome of college enrollment and persistence into a secon
College -
readiness indicators for «on - track» and «highly qualified» students were analyzed
for school districts in Nassau County, NY using logistic regression to determine if there is a relationship with the desired outcome of
college enrollment and persistence into a secon
college enrollment and persistence into a second year.
While not the final word, that's potentially troubling
for California, which is proposing multiple measures of performance, including student suspension rates, a
college and career
readiness indicator and the new science test, when it's ready in a few years.
AIR researchers explore the
indicators that signal students» eventual
readiness for college and career.
Because there is only one year of data
for chronic absenteeism and
college / career
readiness, those
indicators won't be assigned a color and used
for accountability purposes until fall 2018.
For college and career readiness data, go to detailed report for any school or district; the indicator is still being develop
For college and career
readiness data, go to detailed report
for any school or district; the indicator is still being develop
for any school or district; the
indicator is still being developed.
But some of the features of a strong system are: high standards that reflect
college and career
readiness; high - quality assessments that build in real - world tasks that reflect the kinds of things students will need to do
for college and career success; annual
indicators of students» progress; attention to both whether or not students are proficient, because we have to understand that; and whether or not they're making progress.
The Smarter Balanced adaptive test aims to provide educators with more authentic
indicators of their students»
college and career
readiness, but some educators have found the test's technology to be limiting and difficult; EdTech leader Steven Rasmussen even went so far as to say, «Not one of the practice and training test items is improved through the use of technology... The primitive software used only makes it more difficult
for students and reduces the reliability of the resulting scores.»
In this paper, Bae and Darling - Hammond propose three types of performance
indicators for use in California's redesigned accountability system to measure and support career and
college readiness.
In 2005, Governor Rick Perry passed an executive order that provided
for the creation of a system of
college -
readiness indicators, including the reporting of education remediation rates among
college students and the creation of an electronic academic records system to facilitate the transfer of high school transcripts between school districts and between districts and institutions of higher education.
Oregon is proposing that schools will receive no overall letter grade or score but will instead use a multiple - measure dashboard of
indicators that reflect opportunities
for students to learn, academic success, and
college and career
readiness.
A number of recent state legislative efforts highlight the importance of course rigor in preparing students
for college and beyond.1 In addition, the State Board of Education has approved a preliminary
college and career
readiness indicator, which leans heavily on student participation and performance in rigorous courses, such as a — g courses, advanced placement exams, International Baccalaureate courses, and dual enrollment in high school and
college courses.2
For high schools: College, Career and Military Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high scho
For high schools:
College, Career and Military Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high
College, Career and Military
Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete
college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high
college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of
indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course
for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high scho
for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high school.
Denver School of Science and Technology is thus far the only Denver or Aurora high school beating the odds
for low income and minority students on every
college -
readiness indicator
Interestingly, the state does not include 11th grade students in this process and builds a second
indicator for 11th graders called
College and Career
Readiness.
Profiles on each state describe how the state established expectations
for college and career
readiness and also include the state's long - term goals, school performance
indicators, framework
for differentiating school performance, and system of identification and support of struggling schools.
The ranges and averages
for the persistence and
college - and career -
readiness indicators categories include high schools only.
For example, some state plans include measures of
college and career
readiness — such as participation in advanced coursework — in the achievement
indicator or in the graduation rate
indicator.
The report describes
college - related outcomes and other
indicators that help predict
college readiness for Black and Latino male students over time, and discusses key contextual factors that underlie these educational outcomes.
For more information on what
college - and career -
readiness indicators states are currently using to classify school performance, see CAP's «Making the Grade» report.15
Many states already use an
indicator of
college and career
readiness at the high school level, and these measures are good candidates
for indicators under ESSA.
The
indicators include: student growth and achievement in reading and math; graduation rates
for high schools; English language proficiency;
for elementary and middle schools, an additional
indicator on student growth such as science achievement, and at least one
indicator of school quality or success, such as career and
college readiness.
As states select
indicators for their school classification systems, which are just one part a comprehensive accountability system, they should include measures that are valid, reliable, and drive behavior at the local level, such as rates of chronic absenteeism and measures of
college and career
readiness.
This paper offers a synthesis of the literature about
college readiness indicators and proposes a framework
for a tri-level
indicator system as a proactive strategy to support students.
Research from respected institutions has been collected to support the use of multiple measures
for college readiness indicators.
The six state
indicators include: Assessments
for English Language Arts (ELA) and Math, English Learner progress, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, and
college / career
readiness.
Achieve's Making Career
Readiness Count brief proposes an expanded framework
for college - and career - ready
indicators that better incorporates
indicators focused on career preparation.
The six
indicators of
college and career
readiness currently utilized are achieving a benchmark score on the ACT, scoring a 3, 4, or 5 on an Advanced Placement exam / scoring a 4, 5, 6, or 7 on an International Baccalaureate exam, scoring silver level or above on ACT Work Keys, earning a transcripted
college credit while still in high school, earning an Industry Credential, or being accepted
for enlistement into any branch of the military.
The
College, Career and Civic
Readiness Index will be a school quality
indicator for high schools effective with accreditation ratings
for the 2021 - 2022 school year.