Affirming the Goal: Is College and Career Readiness an Internationally Competitive Standard? Executive Summary

Institution	ACT, Inc.
Titel	Affirming the Goal: Is College and Career Readiness an Internationally Competitive Standard? Executive Summary
Quelle	(2011), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	State Standards; Career Development; School Readiness; College Preparation; International Education; Comparative Education; Comparative Testing; Competition; Academic Standards; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Educational Objectives; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Standardized Tests; Benchmarking; United States; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsentwicklung; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Internationale Erziehung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Wettkampf; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; USA
Abstract	ACT examined the international competitiveness of college and career ready standards in the policy research report, Affirming the Goal: Is College and Career Readiness an Internationally Competitive Standard? In this study, ACT performed a linking analysis to identify the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) scores in reading and mathematics that are equivalent to the college and career readiness benchmark scores on PLAN[R], ACT's tenth-grade college and career readiness assessment. These benchmark scores represent being on target for readiness. The linking analysis was based on 2,248 US tenth-grade students from 77 high schools across the US who tested under standardized conditions with both PLAN and a special administration of PISA. By linking the tenth-grade college and career readiness benchmarks to the PISA scale, ACT determined if the college and career readiness performance standards for US students in these two subjects was competitive with the performance of students in other countries. The linking analysis affirms that the performance standards of college and career readiness--and therefore the new Common Core State Standards--are competitive with the highest performing nations in the world. (Contains 2 figures.) [For the full report, "Affirming the Goal: Is College and Career Readiness an Internationally Competitive Standard?," see ED520009. For the advance brief, "Affirming the Goal: Is College and Career Readiness an Internationally Competitive Standard? Advance Brief for State Policymakers," see ED520013.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10