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Changes to the ACT
Mobile, AL
February 2, 2015
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ACT Enhancements
• ACT – CBT (computer-based testing)
• New Readiness Indicators
• Enhanced Optional Writing Test
• Optional Constructed-Response Questions
• Enhanced Reporting
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New Readiness Indicators
• STEM Score
– Represent overall performance on math and science tests
• Progress Toward career readiness Indicator
– Helps students understand their progress toward career
readiness
– Provides indicator of future performance on ACT National Career
Readiness Certificate (NCRC)
• English Language Arts Score
– Scores combine achievement on the English, reading, and
writing portions of the ACT for students taking all three sections.
• Text Complexity Indicator
– Tells students if they are making sufficient progress toward
understanding the complex text they will encounter in college
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Enhanced Optional Writing Test
(Fall 2015)
• Research driven - Changes driven by research and evidence
from a decade of working w/writing assessments in high school,
college, post-graduate, and the workplace
• National Curriculum Survey Research, 2011 NAEP
Writing Framework research, participation in
creation of CCSS, and ACT’s College Readiness
Standards
• Writing Competencies Framework
– Developed to guide ACT’s continuum of writing assessments
from elementary school to career
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Enhanced Optional Writing Test
• New Scores
– Subject test score plus scores for four important
domains: ideas and analysis, development and
support, organization, language use
– 3 digit score (similar to ACT Aspire)
– Writing score does not affect Composite Score
• Timing
– Currently 30 mins. May increase slightly –
dependent upon results from research studies
• Sample Prompt – (available now)
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Optional
Constructed-Response Questions
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Optional – to provide maximum flexibility for students & costs
Subject tests: math, reading, and science
Timing – 30 mins.
Administration – must be in same window with selectedresponse tests, but not necessarily on same day
• Score – combined results from selected-response and
constructed-response tests
• Score Scale – same as 3 digit ACT Aspire score; 1-36
remains for subject and Composite scores
• Sample items & content specifications –
available late Summer 2014
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ACT CBT Administration
• First ever computer based undergraduate college
admissions test
• Launched Spring 2014 – 4,000 students/ 80 schools from
across U.S.
• 2015 – Select have been invited to participate
• Spring 2016
– Expanded release as an option for State and
district testing
• CBT or other assessments
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for National, International,
and Residual testing will be considered
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ACT CBT Administration
• Items - Same number of items as paper & pencil (215) and covers
same content
• Timing – Maybe slightly different by mode for particular subject tests
(Timing study –Fall 2013; Mode comparison study – Spring 2014)
Administration – Within a defined window vs one day P & P
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• Not adaptive
• Computers - CBT administered on school controlled desktop/laptop
only
• College/NCAA acceptance – ACT research designed to ensure
the 1-36 ACT scores reported for students reflect the same level of
achievement w/o regard to mode
• Practice Test
– Online tutorial to help student learn to navigate the
system
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Enhanced Reporting
• Score Scale
- 1-36 will not change
• Additional scores and indicators - to give students,
parents, educators more detailed information for planning for future
success
• Reporting categories (added in 2016)
– Expanded number of categories compared to current subtests
– Based on ACT College Readiness Standards
– Aligned to state assessment requirements
• Preparing colleges receiving ACT scores –
– Any report file layout modification details will be communicated
to higher education institutions
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For more information about What’s Next with the ACT
• Visit- www.act.org/actnext
• Contact Liaison:
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AL: Gennine Holley, [email protected]
AR: Rick Bryant, [email protected]
FL: Cari Lousch, [email protected]
GA: Jackie Pearson, [email protected]
KY: Lynn Hunley, [email protected]
LA: John Clark, [email protected]
MS: Wes Gentry, [email protected]
NC: Jacque Twiggs, [email protected]
OK: Judy Trice, [email protected]
PR: Carl Forbes, [email protected]
SC: Mike DiNicola, [email protected]
TN: Donna Mason, [email protected]
TX: Sue Wheeler, [email protected]
VA: Chris Hansen, [email protected]
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Remember ...February 1-4, 2015
Mobile, AL
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