Transcript SWHS EPAS Dec faculty mtg
EPAS at South Warren High School
Dr. Debbie Powers [email protected]
EXPLORE
®
PLAN
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and the ACT
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Educational Planning and Assessment System: EPAS
• The EPAS system provides a longitudinal , systematic approach to educational and career planning, assessment, instructional support, and evaluation. • The system focuses on the integrated , higher-order thinking skills students develop in grades K-12 that are important for success both during and after high school.
Educational Planning and Assessment System: EPAS Four components form the foundation of EPAS:
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Student Planning
—Process through which students can identify career and educational goals early and then pursue those goals.
Instructional Support
—Support materials and services to help classroom teachers prepare their students for the coming transitions. This component reinforces the direct link between the content and skills measured in the EPAS programs and those that are taught in high school classrooms.
Assessment
—Student achievement is assessed at three key transition points in EPAS so that academic progress can be monitored to ensure that each student is prepared to reach his/her post-high school goals.
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Evaluation
—An academic information monitoring service that provides teachers and administrators with a comprehensive analysis of academic growth between EPAS levels.
College Readiness Standards
• ACT defines College Readiness Standards as sets of statements intended to help students, parents, and educators understand the meaning of test scores.
• The standards relate test scores to the types of skills needed for success in high school and beyond. • The ACT is the only college readiness test for which scores can be tied directly to standards.
additional information at www.act.org
College Readiness Benchmark Scores
A benchmark score is the minimum score needed on an ACT subject area test to indicate a
50%
of obtaining a
B
chance or higher or about a
75%
chance of obtaining a
C
or higher in the corresponding credit bearing college course.
EPAS Predictors of Success Test EXPLORE Benchmark PLAN Benchmark ACT Benchmark College Course
English Math Reading Science 13 17 15 20 15 19 17 21 18 22 21 24 English Composition College Algebra College Humanities College Biology
EPAS: a sequential assessment system EXPLORE ® PLAN ® ACT
EXPLORE
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, PLAN
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, and the ACT
Typically, students take EXPLORE in the 8th or 9th grade, PLAN as 10th graders, and the ACT as juniors or seniors.
All three test you in English, math, reading, and science. However, the material tested in each program gets more difficult.
This is why the top scores are different.
Program
EXPLORE PLAN ACT
Grade Level
8 and 9 10 11 and 12
Composite Score Range
1 to 25 1 to 32 1 to 36
EXPLORE, PLAN, & ACT
English Mathematics Reading Science EXPLORE 40 in 30 min.
30 in 30 min.
30 in 30 min.
28 in 30 min.
PLAN 50 in 30 min.
40 in 40 min.
25 in 20 min.
30 in 25 min.
ACT 75 in 45 min.
60 in 60 min.
40 in 35 min.
40 in 35 min.
EXPLORE
® your turn… Take the provided practice test…do as much as you have time on all four sample tests… Work individually You may write on the sample tests Be sure to look at questions on all four tests You have 10 minutes
Time is up!
EXPLORE Table Talk-
use the paper on your table to summarize your discussion points
Let’s debrief
What did you learn?
What advice would you give a student?
As a teacher, what can you incorporate in order to prepare students for the EXPLORE?
Explore sample answers…
Once students have their scores, then what?
Once students have taken EXPLORE, they know much more about their skills, career interests, and readiness for college. They should ask themselves these questions: Does my high school course plan include challenging college prep courses?
What skills do I need to work on to be sure I am on target for college?
How can I learn more about careers that interest me?
EXPLORE Interpretive Visuals 9/2009 14
PLAN
• Students have the opportunity to take the PLAN as 10 th graders.
• There are four tests… • Similar information can be gleaned from the PLAN score report as the EXPLORE score report.
PLAN ®
The
English Test
measures your understanding of standard written English.
• (Usage/Mechanics) punctuation , grammar and usage , and sentence structure • (Rhetorical Skills) your understanding of the use of strategy , organization , and style in writing • Consists of four prose passages each accompanied by multiple choice questions.
The
Math Test
measures your mathematical reasoning . • Ability to reason in math rather than on how well you have memorized formulas or can do involved computations • Tests pre-algebra, algebra, and plane geometry
PLAN ®
The
Reading Test
measures your reading comprehension.
• Focuses on referring to details in a passage, drawing conclusions, and making comparisons and generalizations • Consists of three prose passages each accompanied by multiple choice questions: social sciences, humanities and prose fiction • To answer the questions, you don't need to know information outside the passages, vocabulary taken out of context, or rules of formal logic.
The
Science Test
presents five measures your scientific reasoning skills, based topics in biology, chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, and meteorology. The test sets of scientific information, using three formats: • Data representation format (two sets) Graphs, tables, diagrams, etc. • Research summaries format (two sets) Descriptions of several related experiments • Conflicting viewpoints format (one set) Two or more interpretations that are inconsistent with one another
Educational Planning and Assessment System: EPAS
ACT
• • • • English 75 questions 45 minutes – Measures standard written English and rhetorical skills. Mathematics 60 questions 60 minutes – Measures mathematical skills students have typically acquired in courses taken up to the beginning of grade 12. Reading 40 questions 35 minutes – Measures reading comprehension. Science 40 questions 35 minutes – Measures the interpretation, analysis, evaluation, reasoning, and problem-solving skills required in the natural sciences
ACT
Your turn to try it!
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Take the sample ACT tests Be sure to look at questions on all four tests Work individually You have 15 minutes
Time is up!
ACT use the paper at your table to summarize your discussion
• • •
Let’s debrief
What did you learn?
What advice would you give a student?
As a teacher, what can you incorporate in order to prepare students for the PLAN & ACT?
ACT sample answers…
EPAS: a sequential assessment system EXPLORE ® Pre-season PLAN ® playoffs ACT championship
When ACT scores come out it’s almost too late to intervene.
ACT.org says…
• If we do not address the identified needs of 8 th grade students, they will never attain the PLAN and ACT targets.
Educational Planning and Assessment System: EPAS EPAS
focuses on a number of key transition points that young people face: – – –
8th/9th grade
—Preparing for high school studies
10th grade
—Planning and preparing for college and the workplace
11th/12th grade
—Being ready for life after high school
ACT.org
or actstudent.org
Your new best friend!
Intervention Rosters?
They are a starting point for conversations about your students.
For Students
• Identify career and educational options • Establish goals • Determine courses needed to fulfill plans • Evaluate educational/career progress
• Homeroom teachers will pass back PLAN scores from Fall 2010 to their homeroom students.
• You will have a power point to use that outlines some important things to go over with your students about how to evaluate their educational/career progress.
For Teachers & Counselors
• Effectively guide students • Deliver effective instruction • Evaluate student progress • Evaluate instruction A focus group of teachers will begin meeting Dec 2 in order to analyze student answers to specific PLAN questions as it relates to our curriculum
We will meet in our school teams – Look for trends in your collective data – Look for curricular gaps – Look for unnecessary overlap of content – Look for content that may be misplaced
Counselors will be meeting with students to discuss College Readiness standards as well as meeting with some 10 th graders that are identified in our Early Intervention PLAN Rosters…for example – Students who made a 15 or lower but are interested in pursuing post-secondary education – Students who made a 16 or higher but are NOT interested in pursuing post-secondary education
For Administrators
• Document success in meeting academic standards • Provide career and educational planning, instructional support, assessment, and longitudinal evaluation • Verify student progress from grades 8 through 12 SWHS will give the EXPLORE to our current 9 th graders beginning this year…then we will have students scores as follows… 9 th EXPLORE, 10 th PLAN, and 11 th ACT
How do we prepare our students?
– This is a marathon assessment…not a sprint – Aside from content, do we help them understand the format?
– Are classroom assignments blueprinted like EPAS items?
– Do we as teachers understand the importance of this?