Transcript INCREASING COLLEGE READINESS THROUGH HIGH …

Kittatinny Regional High School
Sussex County Community College
April 2012
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Sussex County Community College, located in northern New
Jersey, has offered Dual/Concurrent Enrollment for Math
courses at Kittatinny Regional High School since Spring
2008. Students are required to pass the Accuplacer
College Level Math Placement test for upper level math
courses Pre-Calculus and Calculus.
Kittatinny Regional High School has approximately 750
students in grades 9-12
◦ Moving toward adding AP courses and more concurrent
enrollment courses to offer students options.
◦ Concurrent enrollment is given for year long high school
courses in the college spring semester and begins with a
meeting with parents in October to explain the program.
Date
Course
Credit
# of
students
2008
Contemporary
Math
3
9
Calculus I
4
3
Contemporary
Math
3
12
Pre-Calculus I
3
22
27%
Calculus I
4
9
57%
Contemporary
Math
3
2
Pre-Calculus I
3
3
26%
Calculus I
4
2
60%
2009
2010
Pass rate on
Accuplacer
CLM
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Research shows that if high school teachers
understood the test they would be better able
to prepare the students.
Best way is for teachers to take the test and
then discuss the process, content, and
results.
Needed to create a workshop.
Applied for and received a $5,000 grant November
2010 from State Farm Insurance to cover:
* Stipends for high school teachers to
attend the workshop
* Stipends for Kittatinny Supervisor of
Instruction and SCCC Math faculty to
develop and implement the workshop
* Cost of tests and other material for the
workshop
* Stipends for development and
implementation of a workshop for
students to prepare them for the test
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December 2010
◦ High School Supervisor of Instruction along with
SCCC faculty developed and implemented the
workshop for high school teachers.
◦ 10 high school teachers came to SCCC and took the
Accuplacer College Level Math Placement test and
then discussed the test taking process, the content
of the test, and how to best help students pass the
test.
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Determined that the best people to develop and
implement a workshop for students are the high school
teachers.
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The workshop focused on helping students pass the CLM
test to received credit for Pre-Calculus I.
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The Process:
◦ Initially generated list of students who were interested
◦ Developed and implemented a series of meetings/workshops with
students
◦ Created power point with links to practice questions
◦ Students took the test once after attending meetings/workshops
◦ HS teachers identified who didn’t pass and worked individually
with them before retesting
Spring 2011
 76% of the students passed CLM and received
credits for Pre-Calculus I (13 students)
Spring 2012
 72% of the students passed CLM and received
credits for Pre-Calculus I (10 students)
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SCCC faculty have evaluated the high school
Pre-Calculus course and determined that the
students should be receiving credit for both
Pre-Calculus I & II.
High School teachers will need to work with
students in Intermediate Algebra now to
prepare them for the placement test.
THANK YOU
Alberta Jaeger,
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs
Sussex County Community College
[email protected]
Gene McNicholas,
Supervisor of Science, Math, Music & Creative Arts
Kittatinny Regional High School
[email protected]