The new College Ready point can help you answer these questions:

1. The new College Ready point can help you answer these questions: • *Are pre-college students helping the college to increase their overall points per student- thereby moving student further/faster?

2. The new 45 Credit Points can help you to know:

3. Cohort tracking can be done from each of the milestones:

4. Key Points on New Funding Methodology and Understanding Points: • Colleges want to know what impacts achievement, to link strategies to points. • Funds are no longer awarded on net point gain from year to year. Colleges had trouble identifying why things changed or how much change was due to enrollment changes. • New funding methodology changes from what happens from year to year to focusing on what happens within the academic year- • New methodology is a combination award of total points, completions, and points per student

5. Key Points on New Funding Methodology and Understanding Points, continued: • Examples: • College Ready Math: • Counts students for becoming college ready and completing college math. Awards 3 and 4 point respectively at the end. • Provides a way to measure the effectiveness of strategies that accelerate students through pre college and into college level. Can be measured on a student by student (cohort) basis using the college ready point values, and more efficiency will increase points per student • Retention Point: • Awards an additional point for prior year students who return and increase their achievement. Benefits both total points and point per student. • Provides a marker for identifying successful year to year retention strategies.

6. Next Steps: • Commission and council visits • Data distribution • Old and New • Coding Workshops: • ITV’s in February • Researchers serve as point of contact for registering and gathering appropriate staff • More information forthcoming January 17th