How Prepared Are Students in Indiana for Life After High School?

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• Most college-bound students face two major
  hurdles and most of them only know about one of
  them.
• The first is the better- known hurdle of access
  or getting into college. The second (largely
  unknown) - is the issue of college readiness, or
  preparing for college.
• - Charles B. Reed, Chancellor of the California
  State University

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Even students who do what we ask of them get
tripped up

• Placement into credit level courses in most
  states is determined by a different set of
  standards and assessments than admissions
• Community College open admissions
  misunderstoodby students and their teachers.
• Placement is high stakes for students big
  impact on momentum

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What can postsecondary do to unravel this mystery?

• Define the expectations required to enter
  credit-bearing college coursework
• ADP Benchmarks defined faculty and employer
  expectations
• Virginia faculty defined threshold skills needed
  for general education
• Kentucky faculty defined expectations for actual
  placement

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Postsecondary must work with K-12 to . . .

• Align high school exit standards with
  expectations for entry-level coursework
• Alignment teams close gaps and ensure high school
  standards are college-ready
• New Mexico forward mapping high school
  college-ready standards onto College Algebra

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and . . .Using the Standards

• Align assessments and courses for exiting high
  school with placement in credit-bearing
  coursework
• ADP states joining in creation of Algebra II test
• Indiana created the CORE 40 required for high
  school graduation and college admission
• California State Universitys Early Assessment
  Program supplements state assessment and signals
  readiness

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Agreeing on College Ready Curriculum
Expectations

• Indiana created the CORE 40 that is required for
  high school graduation and college admission

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Indiana requires CORE 40 for high school
graduation and admission
to all public 4 year institutions
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Better Use of Senior Year

• California State University and high school
  teachers created senior year transition
  courses.
• CUNY developed College Now curricula

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Agreeing on measuring College Readiness

• ADP states joining in creation of Algebra II test
• California State Universitys Early Assessment
  Program supplements state assessment and signals
  readiness

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The California University System supplements
state assessment items
By using the 11th grade standards test to
determine whether a student can take a college
course for credit, students get a heads-up as to
whether theyre learning what the university
expects. USA Today
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Once students enter college, postsecondary should
. . .

• Give feedback to high schools on the success of
  their students in college
• Kentucky tells every high school how many of
  their students went to college, how well prepared
  they were, their major and whether or not they
  were academically successful

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and . . .increase college success

• Document progress of all students and use results
  for improving retention and graduation
• Systems participating in the Access to Success
  Initiative are setting stretch goals to close by
  at least half by 2015, the gaps in both
  college-going and college completion that
  separate low-income and minority students from
  others.
• Not more programs improving teaching and
  learning e.g. entry course redesign.

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on the Web at http//www.achieve.org