Transcript Course Guide 2.0 - University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

Let’s Get to the Core
Presenter Info:
Ron Jetty, Director, PK 16 Initiatives
University of Wisconsin System
Where were we before the
Common Core?
1995-1997 -- Model Academic Standards
Assessment: Wisconsin Knowledge and Concept
Examinations (WKCE) in Grades 4, 8, and 10
2001 – No Child Left Behind
Assessment: WKCE in Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10
Where were we before the
Common Core?
2007 – DPI joined the American Diploma Project &
Achieve to update our academic standards in Math
and English
2009 – Achieve praised the rigor of Wisconsin’s
updated Math and English standards as being wellaligned with national benchmarks
2009 – State Superintendent-elect Evers announced
intent to adopt Common Core State Standards
A Balanced Assessment System
Common
Core State
Standards
specify
K-12
expectations
for college
and career
readiness
Summative
assessments
Benchmarked to
college and career
readiness
Teachers and
schools have
information and
tools they need
to improve
teaching and
learning
Teacher resources for
formative
assessment
practices
to improve instruction
Interim assessments
Flexible, open, used
for actionable
feedback
All students
leave
high school
college
and career
ready
Common Core Instructional Shifts for
ELA/Literacy
 Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction and informational texts
 Reading and writing grounded in evidence
from text
 Regular practice with complex text and its
academic vocabulary
Common Core Instructional Shifts for
Mathematics
 Focus strongly where the Standards focus
 Coherence: Think across grades, and link to
major topics within grades
 Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual
understanding, procedural skill and fluency,
and application
Common Core video
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Partnership of Assessment for Readiness
of College and Careers
ACT Aspire
ACT Suite Implementation
in Wisconsin
Explore: Fall and Spring Administrations
(9th grade)
 EXPLORE® contains four curriculum-based assessments:
English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science. The
assessment is based on the major areas of high school
and postsecondary instructional programs and measures
the skills and knowledge needed for college success.
 Additionally, EXPLORE includes a career exploration
component that stimulates students' thinking about
future plans and relates personal characteristics to career
options.
Summary
 Composite Score (Scale 1-25)
 Percentile Ranks
 Estimated ACT Score
 Expressed needs and plans post-high
 College Readiness indicators and plans
 Summary of test areas (skills) and careers
Plan: Spring administration
(10th grade)
 ACT Plan serves as the midpoint measure of
academic progress in ACT's College and Career
Readiness System.
 Scoring Reports much like EXPLORE
The ACT: Spring administration
(11th grade)
 English 75 questions 45 minutes
 Math 60 questions 60 minutes
 Reading 40 questions 35 minutes
 Science 40 questions 35 minutes
 +Writing 1 prompt 30 minutes
WorkKeys: Spring administration
11th grade
 This series of tests measures foundational and
soft skills and offers specialized assessments to
target institutional needs.
 Areas tested: Applied Mathematics, Locating
Information, and Reading for Information
 Math and Reading Levels 3-7, Locating
information Levels 3-6
Benchmarks
 The benchmarks are scores on the ACT subjectarea tests that represent the level of achievement
required for students to have a 50% chance of
obtaining a B or higher or about a 75% chance of
obtaining a C or higher in corresponding creditbearing first-year college courses. These college
courses include English composition, college
algebra, introductory social science courses, and
biology.
Benchmark Scores
Political pushback on the Common Core
COLLEGE READINESS PARTNERSHIP
Identify how the Common Core State Standards should be implemented
in each participating state in order to actually improve college and
career readiness for all students;
Define how leaders and faculty across K-12 and higher education need
to work together to improve both teaching and learning in ways
essential to achieving the goal of college and career readiness; and
Delineate the specific steps that higher education and states must take
together in order to make effective implementation a reality; in other
words, to make college and career readiness expectations more
transparent, to align curricula, to assess student performance more
effectively, and to improve teacher preparation and professional
development.
UW System interest
 Our goal is to ensure that prospective and current
UW students have access to high-quality
opportunities that prepare them for success in
school, in work, and in life.
The adoption of common core standards
gives us the opportunity to:
1) better define college readiness
2) redefine remedial education so that students
enter UW institutions taking credit-bearing courses
from day one
The adoption of common core standards
gives us the opportunity to:
3) better align the last two years of high school
with the first two years of college
4) provide more dual enrollment/credit options
for high-achieving high school students
5) produce graduates of teacher preparation
programs with knowledge and competencies needed
to effectively incorporate the Common Core State
Standards into their teaching
Resources
 http://www.corestandards.org/
 http://www.achievethecore.org/
 http://www.smarterbalanced.org/
 http://www.parcconline.org/
 http://www.discoveractaspire.org/pages/home
 http://www.sheeo.org/projects/college-andcareer-readiness-partnership-ccrp