NOVEMBER 17, 2008 TELECONFERENCE PRESENTED BY DR. BETH CIPOLETTI OFFICE OF ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY DIVISION OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION EXPLORE.

NOVEMBER 17, 2008TELECONFERENCE

PRESENTED BYDR. BETH CIPOLETTI

OFFICE OF ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITYDIVISION OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

EXPLORE and PLAN

Webinar Agenda

Test informationStudent score reportsACT college readiness standardsIdeas for progressSample questions

EXPLORE AND PLAN

Test Information

EXPLORE Overview

English (40 item, 30-minute) test measures conventions of standard written English and of rhetorical skills

Mathematics (30-item, 30 minute) test emphasizes solving practical quantitative problems

Reading (30-item, 30 minute) test measures reading comprehension as a product of referring and reasoning skills

Science (28-item, 30 minute) test measures scientific reasoning skills

PLAN Overview

English (50-item, 30 minute) test measures conventions of standard written English and of rhetorical skills

Mathematics (40-item, 40 minute) test emphasizes solving practical quantitative problems

Reading (25-item. 20 minute) test measures reading comprehension as a product of referring and reasoning skills

Science (30-item, 25 minute) test measures scientific reasoning skills

Other Components

Interest Inventory – helps students explore personally relevant career options

Needs Assessment – collects information about students’ perceived needs

Educational plans and Background Information – gathers information about students’ school coursework plans, educational career plans after high school and other relevant information

EXPLORE AND PLAN

Student Score Reports

9/2008

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Your High School Course PlansCompared to Core

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Your Estimated PLAN Composite Score Range

12/2006

Areas in Which You Would Like Additional help

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Your Plans for After High School

College Readiness

College Readiness Benchmarks

Subject TestEXPLORE Test

ScorePLAN Test

ScoreACT Test

Score

English 13 15 18

Mathematics 17 19 22

Reading 15 17 21

Science 20 21 24

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Your Career Possibilities

IDEAS FOR PROGRESS

College Readiness Standards

College Readiness Standards

Descriptions of the skills and knowledge students are likely to exhibit based on their scores in each academic test: English, Mathematics, Reading and Science

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Your Skills

PLAN

PLANYour Skills – Side Two

Content Areas To improve your skills you can:

Basic Operations

Probability

Determine the discount price of items on sale (for example, an item that normally const $10.00 is on sale for 13% off, so the same price of the item is $8.70)

Calculate the score value you need on your next math test to raise your overall grade by a certain percent

Predict the outcome of simple events (for example, the sum of two 6-sided fair number cubes when rolled)

Ideas for Progress

Suggest learning experiences that a student from which a student might benefit to increase his/her achievement and achieve a higher score on the ACT

Provide bridges between adjacent score ranges

Resources

EXPLORE Interpretive Visuals9/200827

www.explorestudent.org

WVDE

Teach 21 (http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/) Assessment updates College Readiness ACT/SAT Guides for writing and mathematics

EXPLORE File Cabinet (http://wvde.state.wv.us/oaa/filecabinet.html# explore) Frequently asked questions Administration manuals Sample reports

PLAN File Cabinet(http://wvde.state.wv.us/oaa/filecabinet.html#plan) Frequently asked questions Administration manuals Sample reports

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACTDR. BETH CIPOLETTI

[email protected]

Questions?