1. State Consortium for BOARD EXAMINATION SYSTEMS SHEEO MEETING August 2010

2. The States Arizona Connecticut Kentucky Maine Massachusetts Mississippi ALL GOVERNING STATES New Hampshire New Mexico New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont

3. SCOBES A not-for-profit organization dedicated to the use of board examination systems —the world’s best instructional systems— in America’s high schools

4. Board Exam Systems A sound core program of courses defining what it means to be an educated person High quality exams derived from the curriculum using multiple assessment methods Thoughtfully constructed course designs captured in a syllabus Quality teacher training matched to the course syllabi

5. Why Board Exams? Best global research shows that board exam systems key to success of world’s best performing systems for ALL students Why? Because they provide the support students must have to succeed Crucially important for low-performing schools and students

6. The Move-On-When-Ready Plan Upper Div’n (AP, IB, A Levels) Work 12 16 18 Lower Division Exam System Core Curriculum, Syllabi, Exams, Teacher Training, All Set to Int’l Standards 2 yr Open Admissions Instns 4 Year Selective Institutions 22 4 yr Graduate Education

7. Board Exams: Some Examples College Board APs Cambridge International Exams ACT QualityCore Edexcel International Baccalaureate

8. Lower Division Ready Now ACT QualityCore Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) Exams Edexcel IGCSE Exams

9. Lower Division: A Closer Look Not elite programs But designed to prepare students for elite programs Can get students college-ready by 16 Many bright students are dropping out because they are bored But give less-prepared students until 18 Help targeted to students weak points in grades 11 and 12 can make all the difference

10. Upper Division Ready Now ACT QualityCore Cambridge AICE Exams College Board Advanced Placement Edexcel A-level version International Baccalaureate

11. College-Ready:What we Mean We will embrace the Common Core State Standards But they are not performance standards We are doing the research needed to find out what level of literacy is needed to succeed in 2-year and 4-year open admission colleges Elements of the research design Will use the results to set the pass points on the lower-division exams

12. College-Ready:Who Will Do It Our TAC: Pellegrino, Everson, Bond, Daro, Duran, Hermon, Haertel, Linn, Snow, Wiliam Our Higher Education Advisory Committee: Broad, Chair, (see next slide) The SCOBES Board of Trustees

13. Higher Education Advisory Committee Molly Broad, ACE, Chair Paul Lingefelter, SHEEO’s George Boggs, AACC Mary Marcy, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Rufus Glasper, Maricopa Community College, AZ Michael Meoti, Commissioner of Higher Ed, CT Robert King, KY Council on Postsecondary Ed Selma Botman, President, Univ. of Southern Maine Aundrea Kelley, Deputy Comm’r, P-16 Policy

14. Higher Education Advisory Committee Andy Mullins, Exec Ass’t to Chancellor, Ole’ Miss Kathryn Dodge, Exec Dir, NH Posts’y Ed Comm’n Deborah Grossman-Garber, Assoc Comm’r, RI Board of Gov’s for Higher ED Viola Florez, NM Cabinet Sec’y for Higher Ed Timothy Donovan, Chancellor, VT State Colleges Alexandra Logue, University Provost, CUNY Karen Stout, President, Montgomery County Community College

15. Our Career and Technical Education Plan Building a strong career and technical education curriculum using the world’s best courses and exams Collaborating with the Council of Chief State School Officers, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Southern Education

16. Our STEM Plan Collaboration with Michael Crow and Arizona State University Select one or more rigorous STEM programs from the world’s best suppliers of courses and examinations Make sure they are endorsed by leading higher education institutions in the states Offer them to high schools and high school students in the member states

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