Got Data? Using your ACT tools to improve performance on all levels, moving students to College and Career Readiness

1. Got Data? Using your ACT tools to improve performance on all levels, moving students to College and Career Readiness

2. Who Benefits? Schools Teachers Counselors Districts States Students

3. College and Career Readiness System The Foundation: • National Curriculum Survey • College Readiness StandardsTM • College Readiness Benchmarks

4. ACT National Curriculum Survey®The Foundation of ACT’s College Readiness System • Conducted every three to five years • Nationwide survey of educational practices and expectations • College instructors • High school teachers • Middle school teachers • Elementary teachers http://www.act.org/research-policy/national-curriculum-survey

5. ACT National Curriculum Survey®The Foundation of ACT’s College Readiness System Identifies the skills and knowledge postsecondary institutions expect of students Guides the development of ACT’s assessments that measure college-ready skills Informs efforts to develop, refine, and update academic standards Inform policymakers and educators

6. The ACT Definition The acquisition of the knowledge and skills a student needs to enroll in and succeed in credit-bearingfirst-year courses at a postsecondary institution (such as a two- or four-year college, trade school, or technical school) without the need for remediation. 6

7. The ACT College Readiness Standards Direct link between what students have learned and what they are ready to learn next. Help interpret what the scores earned on ACT Explore®, ACT Plan®, and the ACT mean Identify the knowledge and skills students are likely to demonstrate at various score levels on each academic test 7

8. ACT College Readiness Standards Suggested learning experiences provide links between the Standards in one score range and those in the next (higher) score range. Ideas for progressing to the next score range demonstrate ways that information learned form standardized test results can be used to inform classroom instruction. http://www.act.org/standard/index.htm l 8

9. Statements that describe what students are likely to know and be able to do. 80% of students who achieve a score in this range demonstrate these skills. And statements that provide suggestions to progress to a higher level of achievement

10. ACT College Readiness Benchmarks UPDATED NEW ACT Explore Empirically derived 50% chance of achieving a B or higher or about a 75% chance of achieving a C or higher in the corresponding credit-bearing college course 10

11. What does a score mean? Nothing!…. until it is interpreted and used. 18 29 15 31 13 36 32 25 16 23 21

12. StateLevel Reports • Annual Condition of College and Career Readiness Report • Annual State Class Profile Report • http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2013/index.htmlWeb

13. 2013 – A year in review for North Dakota 7,102 of your graduates, which is an estimated 98% of your graduating class, took the ACT North Dakota had an average ACT Composite score of 20.5 5,168 of 10th graders took ACT Plan 872 of 8th graders took ACT Explore http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2013/ 13

14. 2013 – A year in review for North Dakota 16 31 14 13 26 14

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16. 2013 – A year in review for North Dakota 16

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19. 2013 – A year in review for North Dakota 19

23. School/District Reports for EXPLORE/PLAN/ACT • ACT Class Profile • Student List Report • Research Data File (CD) • Profile Summary Report (EXPLORE/PLAN) • Presentation Packet • Linkage Reports (EXPLORE—PLAN, PLAN—ACT) • Item Response Summary Report • Early Intervention Roster Report • Student Score Report

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26. ACT PLAN Profile Summary Report

27. ACT PLAN Presentation Packet

28. North Dakota EXPLORE/PLAN Linkage Report

29. North Dakota EXPLORE/PLAN Linkage Report

30. Item Response Summary Report

31. Application ExerciseItem Response Summary Report *Asterisked numbers are CORRECT answers. Pick one content area. Circle the asterisked numbers (correct answers) for each question.

32. Application Exercise Look for the following patterns: • Dramatic differences from the reference group • High percentages clustered around a wrong answer • High percentages of omitted questions Do any of these situations occur more frequently for some domains than others?

33. Replace image with what is in the workbook and fix the color coding key to match Dramatic Difference from Reference Group High Percentage Omitted Clustered on wrong answer

34. ACT EXPLORE Early Intervention Roster

35. ACT EXPLORE Early Intervention Roster

36. When using your PLAN Score Report, ask yourself some questions: • Am I on target for college? • What skills do I need to improve to be ready for college? • Am I taking a rigorous core curriculum • What careers interest me most?

41. ACT Aspire™—The Evolution of College and Career Readiness • Identifies a student’s predicted path toward readiness • Highlights gaps between what students have learned and what they need to learn • Leverages familiar technology • Offers robust online reporting that enables timely modifications to student learning and intervention strategies 9 42

42. ACT Aspire The ACT • Vertically articulated, standards-based system of assessments to monitor progress in the context of college and career readiness • Summative assessments on a vertical scale that spans grades 3–10 and links to the ACT College Readiness score scale (1–36) • Subject areas: English, math, reading, science, and writing • Employs modular administration by subject and/or grade • Linear, computer-based, multiple question types with paper-and-pencil option • Links to ACT College Readiness Benchmarks and aligns with Common Core State Standards • Provides evidence-based results 43

44. Online Reporting—Support • ELA Scores for those who test in English, reading, and writing • Reading Text Complexity Scores (Reading only) • Longitudinal growth • Student predicted paths toward college and career readiness • Composite Score (Early High School) • Predicted ACT Subject and Composite Score (Early High School)

45. Online Reporting Delivery • Rich data and insights • Accessible via computer or tablet • Downloadable PDFs of prebuilt reports • Student and Educator Reports • Reports for Schools, Districts, and States • Aggregate data files available for download to SIS

46. For more information and to sign up to receive updates go to: www.discoveractaspire.org 47

47. Remember: Without data, it’s just an opinion. April.Hansen@act.org