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Improving ACT Scores at Lakeview High School -Darin Schmidt

Improving ACT Scores at Lakeview High School -Darin Schmidt. Apply strand analysis to the available data such as the MME/ACT reports, Golden Packages, and CUAs that would identify specific weaknesses in the school, department, or classroom. - ACT and MME scores strongly correlated

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Improving ACT Scores at Lakeview High School -Darin Schmidt

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  1. Improving ACT Scores at Lakeview High School -Darin Schmidt

  2. Apply strand analysis to the available data such as the MME/ACT reports, Golden Packages, and CUAs that would identify specific weaknesses in the school, department, or classroom.

  3. - ACT and MME scores strongly correlated - ACT helps kids get into college - ACT is an “open book” - plenty of support materials - ACT is stable and national

  4. Freshmen Admission to the University is decided on an individual basis. The average WMU freshman has a 3.3 high school GPA and a 22 ACT score, but these numbers should not be viewed as minimum or cutoff points since students both above and below these averages are considered for admission. Your application is reviewed using a combination of these key factors: grade point average, ACT / SAT score, number and type of college prep courses, and trend of grades.

  5. 2010 Freshman Class Profile • 30,947 Applications • 15,436 Admitted • 6,300 Enrolled • Average High School GPA: 3.8 • Middle 50th Percentile of the Admitted Class: • ACT Composite of 28-32

  6. Does our school prepare students to succeed on the ACT?

  7. Composite ACT score LHS N=352 Avg. = 19.06 Median = 19 Mode = 18 (n=37) SD = 4.9 State Average = 19.7 National Average = 21.1 with SD of 5.1 “College-ready” benchmark = 22

  8. Class of 2012 is very close to a normal bell curve 21.5 = “college-ready” 4 14 19 24 29 34 9

  9. Increasing the average even one point would mean... 21.5 = “college-ready” 22.5 5 15 20 25 30 35 10 ...an extra 7.6% would be college ready That’s 26 students!

  10. Correlation = .525 (high side of moderate) line divides at 22 ACT composite scores and GPA

  11. GPA sorted descending N=365 Avg. = 2.81 Median = 3 Mode = 4.0 (n=68) SD = 1.0

  12. Round up the usual suspects! #1 - attendance

  13. Absences = total blocks absent, 1st semester 2010-11 Correlation = -.38 (moderate) All 369 students sorted by descending GPA

  14. Absences = total blocks absent, 1st semester 2010-11 Correlation = -0.135 (weak) Absences sorted by descending composite ACT

  15. Teachers pressured to mitigate impact of absences

  16. Attendance data from 1st semester 2010-11

  17. Round up the usual suspects! #2-poverty

  18. ACT no FRL N = 235 Average: 20.2 SD = 4.9

  19. ACT yes FRL N = 117 average: 16.7 SD = 4.1

  20. Correlation = -0.34 (moderate) FRL and composite ACT

  21. Correlation = -0.27 (moderate) FRL and GPA x-axis: 1.0 = no FRL; 2.0 = FRL

  22. Attendance no FRL N = 239 Median= 3

  23. Attendance Yes FRL n=129 median = 4

  24. Correlation = 0.10 (weak) Absences and FRL (1.0 = no FRL, 2.0 = FRL)

  25. Round up the usual suspects! #3-choice students

  26. Average = 19.2 N = 265

  27. Average = 18.64 N = 87

  28. SOC and composite ACT correlation: -0.05 SOC and GPA correlation: -0.08

  29. No SOC: no FRL = 199 (72%) • yes FRL = 77 (28%) • Yes SOC: no FRL = 41 (44%) • yes FRL = 52 (56%)

  30. No SOC No FRL n=199 GPA = 3.03 Med. Att.= 3 ACT = 20.11 Yes SOC No FRL n=41 GPA = 2.90 Med. Att.= 3 ACT = 20.7 No SOC Yes FRL n=77 GPA = 2.41 Med. Att. = 4 ACT = 16.70 Yes SOC Yes FRL n=52 GPA = 2.50 Med. Att. = 4 ACT = 16.80

  31. Round up the usual suspects! #4-inadequate test prep

  32. Correlation = 0.44 (moderate) Extra practice tests sorted by descending COM ACT

  33. correlation = 0.40 (moderate) Extra practice tests sorted by descending GPA

  34. Students who get good grades are more likely to seek extra testing opportunities.

  35. Extra Practice Tests Sorted by all students in descending order

  36. Are poor kids unable and/or unmotivatedto seek extra testing opportunities?

  37. No FRL: avg. of 1.44 extra tests Yes FRL: avg. of .55 extra tests

  38. No SOC: n=276, avg. = 1.16 Yes SOC: n=93, avg. = 1.04

  39. Extra Practice Tests: No SOC, No FRL: n=199, avg. = 1.40 No SOC, Yes FRL: n=77, avg. = 0.55 Yes SOC, No FRL: n=41, avg. = 1.66 Yes SOC, Yes FRL: n=52, avg. 0.56

  40. ACT CORRELATIONS FROM STRONGEST TO WEAKEST GPA +0.53 Extra Tests +0.44 FRL -0.34 Attendance -0.14 Students of Choice -0.05

  41. CORRELATIONS WITH GPA Extra test opportunities +0.40 Attendance -0.38 FRL -0.27 SOC -0.08

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