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Bridgewater State College Sustaining Growth Conference

Bridgewater State College Sustaining Growth Conference. Incentivizing High School Students to Complete the New Certificate of Mastery: How Can Colleges and Universities Help?. Helping to Define the College Readiness Problem.

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Bridgewater State College Sustaining Growth Conference

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  1. Bridgewater State College Sustaining GrowthConference Incentivizing High School Students to Complete the New Certificate of Mastery: How Can Colleges and Universities Help?

  2. Helping to Define the College Readiness Problem • MA college going rates (NCHEMS) has dropped from 65.4% in 1994 to 63.4% in 2004. Currently rank 9th. • MA High School graduates expected to decline from 61,299 in 2008 to 51,242 in 2017 (WICHE). At the same time, the % of minority graduates is expected to increase.

  3. We are Losing Too Many Along the “Educational Pipeline” 10 For every 10 ninth graders … 8 Only 8 graduate from high school… 6 Only 6 enroll in college … 3-4 Only 3-4 earn a degree. In urban areas the numbers are worse: 10-6-4-2.

  4. By 2010, jobs requiring at least some postsecondary education will make up more than two thirds of new jobs in the United States. Tomorrow’s jobs require more education than ever before Source: Carnevale, Anthony P. and Donna M. Desrochers, Standards for What? The Economic Roots of K–16 Reform, Educational Testing Service, 2003.

  5. Educational Proficiency Plan Competency Determination Certificate of Mastery MassCore

  6. Massachusetts High School Competency Determination (CD)Requirements • Meet local graduation requirements • Attain proficiency score of 240 or higher on grade 10 ELA/Math MCAS tests or fulfill requirements of a Educational Proficiency Plan • Attain a needs improvement score of 220 or higher in an end-of-course science test. To earn diploma, the class of 2010 and beyond must:

  7. What is MassCore? • A recommended program of study for Massachusetts high school students • A program of study to better prepare students for college and careers • A program of study that maintains flexibility for students, schools and districts • Allows schools and districts to set additional graduation requirements

  8. Massachusetts High School Survey In January 2007, the Massachusetts Department of Education conducted a web-based survey of the Commonwealth high schools on student course taking for the Class of 2006.

  9. What is the Certificate of Mastery? • The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted in October 2006 to redesign the Certificate of Mastery to make the credential more accessible and increase state college and career readiness rates by providing an incentive to students to take a challenging program of study in high school.

  10. What is the Certificate of Mastery? • Criteria to earn the credential: • Earn a Competency Determination with scores of Proficient or Advanced. Option: Alternative tests and equivalent scores • Complete a Board of Education recommended college preparatory curriculum (MassCore) • Complete high school with a GPA equal to or greater than the Board set standard • Pass a state Algebra II test developed by Pearson in concert with Achieve and 13 other states). To be offered in SY 2008-09 • Pass state Writing Assessment (to be determined)

  11. Certificate of Mastery • Implementation Schedule: The Certificate was to have been made available to students beginning with the class of 2009. • The implementation has been delayed until incentives can be identified. • What are some possible incentives? • Early admission • Snap admissions • Automatic placement into college-credit bearing courses • Automatic admission into a four-year college/university • Scholarships (Similar to Adams Scholarship)

  12. Students need a real incentive to complete the requirements of the Certificate of Mastery What incentives do you suggest?

  13. Thank you and have a good summer Stafford Peat speat@doe.mass.edu

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