1. ILLUMINATING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
State Report Cards for Districts and Schools

2. Objectives Today’s webinar is designed to address several questions:
Why should your state incorporate college and career readiness (CCR) indicators into its district and school report cards?
What are CCR indicators and how can your state calculate them?
How can your state report CCR indicators to build understanding and inspire action among parents and the public?
We will be joined by Jon Gubera, Chief Accountability Officer, Indiana Department of Education.
We will also share a new sample College and Career Readiness Report Card that Achieve has developed.

3. WHY YOUR STATE SHOULD INCORPORATE CCR INDICATORS INTO DISTRICT AND SCHOOL REPORT CARDS

4. The College- and Career-Ready Agenda
Align high school standards with the demands of college and careers.
Require students to take a college- and career-ready curriculum to earn a high school diploma.
Build college-and career-ready measures into statewide high school assessment systems.
Develop reporting and accountability systems that promote college and career readiness.

5. Report cards are powerful levers to focus attention on CCR outcomes
Visibility of states’ school and district report cards, particularly for parents
Value that students and parents place on CCR (e.g. entrance into entry-level, credit-bearing courses in post-secondary institutions without need for remediation)
Focus attention on improving CCR outcomes

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7. Achieve’s sample CCR report card
Achieve has designed a sample report card to jumpstart a conversation in ADP Network states about incorporating CCR indicators into district and school report cards.
Focuses on actionable data
Includes academic as well as broader indicators
Provides comparisons to other schools
Illuminates subgroup-level performance
Suggests questions that parents and the public can ask about student performance strategies
You will be able to find it here:

8. WHAT ARE CCR INDICATORS AND HOW CAN YOUR STATE CALCULATE THEM?

9. CCR indicators fall along a continuum of readiness
Progressing Toward CCR
Meeting CCR
Exceeding CCR
ACHIEVEMENT
Students with “On-track to CCR” performance on assessments in middle and early in high school
Students in a graduating cohort with “CCR” level of performance on state anchor or college readiness assessments
Graduates with college-level performance on AP or IB exams
COURSE COMPLETION AND SUCCESS
High school students, by grade, with timely credit accumulation along a CCR course of study
Students in a graduating cohort who complete a CCR course of study
Graduates who have completed AP, IB, or dual enrollment courses
ATTAINMENT
9th grade students with “on-track” to graduation status based on grades and attendance in core courses in first grading period
Students in a graduating cohort who receive a college and career ready diploma
Students in a graduating cohort who receive industry certification
Graduates who enroll into postsecondary education with no need for remediation
Graduates who successfully complete at least one year of postsecondary education
Source: Adapted from Measures that Matter: Making College and Career Readiness the Mission of High Schools, Achieve and the Education Trust, 2008

10. EXAMPLE: Hawai’i College and Career Readiness Indicators Reports
Source: Hawai’i P-20 in partnership with the Hawai’i Department of Education and University of Hawaii,

11. EXAMPLE: Virginia’s report cards include CTE and AP/dual enrollment indicators
Source: Virginia School, School Division, and State Report Cards,

12. Some guidance for calculating CCR indicators
The way states calculate CCR indicators matters for results
Numerators should be criterion-referenced where possible (e.g. “percent of students meeting the CCR benchmark” rather than average score) to better capture changes in readiness
Denominators should include all students, preferably all students in a graduating cohort (e.g. the graduating cohort rather than just students taking an assessment) to improve the stability of the indicator and its ability to portray the full picture of readiness for students in the school
This may mean that your state will need to work with data providers to refine the way they report data to you.

13. Definitions for CCR indicators
Source: Achieve’s sample CCR report card

14. HOW CAN YOUR STATE REPORT CCR INDICATORS TO BUILD UNDERSTANDING AND INSPIRE ACTION AMONG PARENTS AND THE PUBLIC?

15. State report cards use a number of strong techniques
Reporting techniques can build understanding and raise the sense of urgency
State report cards use a number of strong techniques
Reporting the number of students as well as percentages
Building in comparisons - vertical comparisons such as school to district to state, horizontal comparisons such as school rankings or showing where the school’s performance lies upon a spectrum, or trends over time
Highlighting disparities among student groups
Some data and functionality may need to live online (along a spectrum of static to interactive reports) while others can translate to a paper report that might be given to parents

16. EXAMPLE: Texas uses student numbers to explain graduation rates
Source: Texas 2010 Campus Graduation Summary,

17. Achieve’s sample CCR report card includes numbers of students participating in certain pathways
Source: Achieve’s sample CCR report card

18. EXAMPLE: Indiana compares school to state and district performance
Source: Indiana COMPASS reports,

19. EXAMPLE: Illinois shows where student performance falls along a spectrum
Source: Illinois Interactive Report Card,

20. EXAMPLE: The Chicago Tribune uses a different method to show the distribution
Source: Illinois Interactive Report Card,

21. EXAMPLE: Michigan displays ACT CCR benchmark data over time
Source: Michigan School Data,

22. EXAMPLE: greatschools.org shows three-year trend data for each subject

23. EXAMPLE: Indiana compares CCR outcomes across student groups
Source: Indiana COMPASS reports,

24. Presenting the data in context
Adding “judgments” can enhance understanding of performance patterns
Traffic-lighting – color-coding in categories such as red, yellow, green
Presenting performance data against goals and benchmarks
Ratings or classifications – these may include those used in the state accountability system, or be defined separately for measures used only in the report card

25. Achieve’s sample CCR report card includes judgments on annual improvement and against annual performance goals
Source: Achieve’s sample CCR report card,

26. Engaging users in the process
Use focus groups and surveys to get feedback on report card prototypes, from the content to delivery.
Draw on these interactions to…
Identify priority questions
Narrow the list of priority indicators
Refine data display techniques
Develop narratives to explain performance or better define indicators
Clarify what can be interactive versus what should be in a static document

27. ILLUMINATING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
State Report Cards for Districts and Schools