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Download full textNWEA, 2020
To help provide context to MAP® Growth™ normative percentiles, this document includes multiple College and Career Readiness (CCR) benchmarks, including those from ACT®, SAT®, and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced). The comparative data in the tables presented in this report can be used as data points for instructional…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Peer reviewedHartman, Jenifer J.; Janssens, Radford; Hensberry, Karina K. R. – Education Leadership Review, 2020
Data-driven decision making is a critical leadership skill. This study describes how leadership at a four-year university used extant data to improve student outcomes. The University identified the high rate of first-time-in-college (FTIC) student withdrawal/failure in initial algebra courses as having a detrimental effect on other student success…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Placement, College Mathematics, Leadership
Nichols, Timothy; Ailts, Jacob; Chang, Kuo-Liang – Honors in Practice, 2016
This study gathered, analyzed, and compared perspectives of students who were honors-eligible but never began the program, students who began in honors and discontinued their enrollment, and those who were persisting in honors. Broadly speaking (and not surprisingly), the responses of students persisting in honors reflected the most positive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, School Holding Power, Honors Curriculum
ACT, Inc., 2014
ACT has been measuring college readiness trends for several years. "The Condition of College & Career Readiness" is ACT's annual report on the progress of the graduating class relative to college readiness. This year, 54.3% of the graduating class took the ACT® college readiness assessment. This report is designed to help inform the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards
Bowers, Alex Jon – Online Submission, 2007
This study addresses the question: "To what extent are teacher assigned subject specific grades useful for data driven decision making in schools?" Recently, schools have been urged to bring teachers and school leaders together around student-level data in an effort to increase dialogue, collaboration and professional communities to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Grades (Scholastic), Course Content, Grading
DesJardins, Stephen L.; And Others – 1997
This study used a logistic probability model to investigate the effects of variables relating student characteristics and institutional factors on the decision to apply to a large land-grant research university. The study used the entire data set from American College Testing (ACT) program test-takers in the fall of 1995 and institutional data on…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Entrance Examinations
