College Readiness and the Early Assessment Program Mitchell Aulakh

Defining “College Ready” Many are associating college and career readiness together – RCOE mission statement College Ready – When students have the academic and interpersonal knowledge, skills, and behaviors to enter and complete a college course of study successfully without remediation CSU College Ready – Ready to take college-level work upon enrollment

CSU College Ready Math – SAT 550 or more on the mathematics portion of the SAT Reasoning Test – 550 or more on a mathematics subject test (level 1 or level 2) – ACT 23 or more on the mathematics test – College Board AP 3 or more on Advanced Placement Calculus or Statistics ELA – SAT 500 or more on the Critical Reading section – ACT 22 or more on the English Test – AP 3 or more on either the Language & Composition or Literature & Composition exam Early Assessment Program

CSU, CDE, and SBE collaborated to create an early indicator of readiness – Grade 11 – Taken during CSTs Writing portion during March – Items embedded in the CST – 15 additional items – Math is test specific Algebra II or Summative math

Early Assessment Program Cont. “Ready” status – Exempt from placement test – Can enroll in credit-bearing classes immediately “Conditional” status – Must take an additional appropriate upper level course, and then considered exempt from placement tests – Newly added for English in 2012

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English EAP Summary All students can participate – Could have 100% participation (or higher in unmatched writing cases) Low ready rates New conditional status just added for 2012

EAP Math Summary Higher end students – On track for a-g requirements Participation rates could be higher – Based on eligible students – Possible 100% Ready/Conditional rates also based on eligible students

CHANGING THE DENOMINATOR

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