1. EARLY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
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EARLY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Working Together to Prepare Students for College
Tom Reisz, San José State University
CSU Counselor Conference, Santa Clara
Friday, October 3, 2008

2. EAP
The goal of the Early Assessment Program is to help California high school graduates
enter the CSU
fully prepared for college-level work.
Slides 2 through 8 establish…
the purpose of the EAP, which is to help first-time freshmen enter the CSU fully prepared in mathematics and English
the meaning of “fully prepared in mathematics and English”
the scope of the CSU’s freshman preparation issue, and
the participants in the EAP partnership.

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English Proficiency
SAT Critical Reading: 550 or above
SAT Writing Skills: or above
ACT English test: 24 or above
AP English: 3 or above
A “C” or better in a community college English course that satisfies the general education requirement in English composition (English 1A).
A status of READY on the CSU’s Early Assessment in English
A passing score on the CSU’s English Placement Test (EPT)
Note 1: These are very challenging proficiency standards. An SAT-CR score of 550 is in the 65%ile score. An ACT English score of 24 is in the 74%ile. An SAT-WS score of 680 is in the (gasp!) 94%ile. The CSU has some of the highest readiness standards in the nation.
Note 2: The AP English test can be either Language & Composition or Literature & Composition.
Note 3: Fun fact: Only about 1 in 4 test takers passes the EPT. (Those who would pass it easily are already exempt.)

4. Mathematics Proficiency
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Mathematics Proficiency
SAT Reasoning Test : 550 or above
SAT Subject Test (IC or IIC): 550 or above
ACT Mathematics test: 23 or above
AP Calculus or Statistics: 3 or above
A “C” or better in a community college mathematics course that satisfies the quantitative reasoning requirement (GE requirement B-4).
A status of READY (or CONDITIONALLY READY) on the CSU’s Early Assessment in Mathematics
A passing score on the CSU’s Entry Level Mathematics examination (ELM)
Note 1: An SAT math score of 550 is in the 60%ile. An ACT math score of 23 is in the 68%ile.
Note 2: Fun fact: Only about 1 in 3 test takers passes the ELM. (Those who would pass it easily are already exempt.)

5. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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CSU Incoming Freshmen
The CSU proficiency rates in mathematics and English have remained fairly stable for at least a decade – low to mid 50s in English and low to mid 60s in mathematics – with the exception of the mathematics rate between 2001 and That sudden jump is probably explained by a redesign of the ELM that removed several advanced topics (logarithms, trigonometry, permutations and combinations) from the test. Please note that this is systemwide data. Local data can be found at

6. Historically, throughout the state…
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Historically, throughout the state…
About 35% of first-time freshmen enter the CSU without demonstrating proficiency in mathematics.
About 45% of first-time freshmen enter the CSU without demonstrating proficiency in English.
About 55% of first-time freshmen enter the CSU needing remediation in at least one subject.
Approximate Percent of Regularly Admitted Freshmen in Remedial Mathematics and English
English Only
20%
Math Only
10%
Both
25%
These numbers are rounded to create a big picture. And here is an explanation relationship between the numbers on the left and the diagram on the right:
The math remediation number of ~35% is the "math only" group (~10%) plus the "both" group (~25%);
the English remediation number of ~45% is the "English only" group (~20%) plus the "both" group (~25%); and
the total remediation number of ~55% is the union of the math and English remediation groups, i.e., the "math only" group (~10%) plus the "English only" group (~20%) plus the "both" group (~25%).

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COLLABORATION
California State Board of Education
California Department of Education
California State University
The situation captured in the previous slide has led to the collaboration outlined in this slide.
The CSU Early Assessment Program
EAP

8. The Early Assessment Program
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The Early Assessment Program
The Early Signal
11th Grade Testing
The Senior Year Experience
12th Grade Intervention
Professional Development for High School Teachers
These are the three components of the EAP. We will look at them one at a time, emphasizing the first two components, which are of more interest to high school counselors.

9. 11th Grade Testing: What is it?
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11th Grade Testing: What is it?
Students participate by responding to the voluntary items that appear in their 11th grade CST Language Arts and Mathematics test booklets.
Mathematics (Algebra II and Summative High School Mathematics tests only)
15 additional untimed multiple choice questions
English
45 minute analytical essay administered in March
Selected items from CST and additional EAP items (including the essay in English) are used to determine student readiness for college English and/or mathematics
Points to emphasize:
The EAP is voluntary, although students are strongly urged to participate. (Note that some schools and districts require their students to take the EAP. That’s fine, but we don’t make EAP participation a requirement for either admission or placement.)
The multiple choice questions are untimed, just like the rest of the CST. Many schools mistakenly believe that the augmentation questions will take 15 additional minutes. This is not the case, especially in math.
EAP statuses come from the CST + EAP augmentations, not from the EAP augmentations alone. This means that students have to take the whole test seriously, not just the extra 15 questions in math and the extra 15 questions and the essay in English.

10. 11th Grade Testing: Why Participate?
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11th Grade Testing: Why Participate?
Identify the need for additional preparation for college-level courses while in high school.
Adjust senior-year coursework to prepare for college-level courses.
Earn an exemption from CSU placement tests. (Students may soon be able to use the EAP to fulfill California Community College placement requirements as well.)
Avoid investing time and money in college remediation courses that do not count toward a baccalaureate degree.
This is a very important point: Now that our mission is to urge as many students as possible to participate in the EAP, the main purpose of the program (at least the testing portion) is to provide college and workforce readiness feedback to all high school students so that they can use their senior year more productively. The opportunity to earn exemptions from the ELM and EPT is an additional bonus for CSU-bound students, but it is not the focus of 11th grade testing.

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Level of Participation
Since spring 2004 (the first year of statewide administration), EAP participation has been steadily increasing in both mathematics and English; however, since fewer than half of California’s ~450K 11th grade students take a math class at the level of algebra 2 or above, mathematics participation is (and will remain) significantly lower than English participation.

12. 11th Grade Testing: Promoting the Test
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11th Grade Testing: Promoting the Test
Peer-delivered EAP advising
Timely motivational video
Spring participation reminder ( )
Online results notification ( )
Please note the third bullet point. Starting this year, the Junior Portal will be used to remind students in late February to participate in the EAP.

13. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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11th Grade Testing: Results
Ready
Exempt from the CSU placement examination in mathematics or English
Conditionally Ready (math only)
Exempt from the CSU math placement upon satisfactory completion of a senior year math experience
Not Yet Demonstrating Readiness
Must demonstrate readiness through the SAT, ACT, AP tests, community college course work, or CSU placement tests or enter remedial (developmental) classes

14. EAP Administration & Reporting Timeline
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EAP Administration & Reporting Timeline
March: Students sit for the EAP English essay. The essay may be administered on multiple days at any school site.
April: Students take the CST + EAP.
Summer: ETS scores the exams.
August: ETS delivers EAP results to district offices.
EAP district roster, with students grouped by school
2 copies of STAR student reports
STAR student CD-ROM
Transcript labels do NOT include EAP results
Then: Districts mail STAR student reports to students’ homes. One copy stays in students’ files at school. Released results are matched to applications in CSUMentor and available for online look-up.

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11th Grade Testing: Status Reports
EAP results appear on the lower left corner of the second page of the STAR Student Reports that are mailed home in August.
Students are referred to a website for additional advising.
The EAP has very little real estate on the STAR Student Report. Even a student who knows that EAP results are on the report might have trouble finding them. Counselors should know where to look so that they can provide appropriate advising.

16. EAP STAR Report Website
Explanation of all EAP statuses
Student video explaining the importance of EAP
Links to advising tools and exam prep resources on the Math and English Success Websites
This is the website that students are referred to on their STAR Student Reports for an explanation of their EAP statuses.

17. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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11th Grade Testing: Status Release
By filling in the release bubble, students…
will be able to look up their results online when they are released.
will have their results matched to their applications in CSUMentor if they apply to the California State University.
Some students do not fill in the status release bubble because they are worried that a poor performance on the EAP will damage their chances of getting in to the CSU. Fear not. Only statuses of “Ready” and “Conditionally Ready” are matched to applications in CSUMentor. This means that our admissions offices do not know the difference between students who received statuses of “Not Yet Ready” and those who simply did not participate in the EAP. In short, the EAP cannot be used in the admissions process.
EAP results DO NOT affect the admissions process.

18. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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Online EAP Status Check
Again, only students who filled in the release bubble can get check their EAP status online.
Students can look up their EAP mathematics and English status online at this website.
Students then receive personalized advice for fulfilling the CSU math and English placement requirements in the most efficient way.

19. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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Replacement EAP Reports
Students who did not fill in the release bubble and lost their STAR Student Reports may obtain replacement EAP reports by ing a request to
The request should include the student’s…
Full name
Date of birth
High school
School year in which he or she attended the 11th grade.
EAP results are valid only for the year following high school graduation.
We do not want the ETS inundated with duplicate report requests. Students should pursue missing EAP results in the following order:
Students who filled in the status release bubble should get their results online at
Students who did not fill in the status release bubble should get a copy of their STAR student report from their counselor. Remember, a copy of every student report is sent to the schools to be kept in students’ files.
As a last resort, students may follow the procedure above.
This replacement report will contain only EAP results; it will not contain STAR information.

20. To get EAP data for your school, district, county, etc.
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To get EAP data for your school, district, county, etc.
Viewreport.asp
The EAP reporting sites have been designed to look like the CDE’s California Standards Tests reporting site. Furthermore, the data can be disaggregated in the same way (i.e., according to EL fluency, economic status, ethnicity, gender, parental education, etc.).

21. The Senior Year Experience for Students in English
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The Senior Year Experience for Students in English
CSU English Success Website
“Exam Prep”
Two full-length EPTs
One set of Practice Questions
Now we are moving from 11th grade testing to the senior year experience. The EAP is effective only to the extent that we connect students with the resources they need in their senior year. The first set of resources we are going to look at are the English and Math Success websites. Not only do these sites contain valuable information for counselors, but they also feature resource tabs for students, teachers, and parents. The information in the “Parents” tab can be translated to Spanish at the click of a button.
“Counselors”
English proficiency requirement
EAP status look-up
Motivational videos

22. The Senior Year Experience for Students in Mathematics
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The Senior Year Experience for Students in Mathematics
CSU Math Success Website
ALEKS ELM preparation
Online ELM tutorials
Online practice tests
ELM Problem Book
Focus on Mathematics booklet
Of course, there is also a “Counselors” tab with a wealth of information about the ELM requirement, status look-up, and motivational videos, and tabs for teachers, students, and parents.

23. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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Authoritative Advice from “My Roadmap”
The “My Roadmap” feature of both sites allows students to create personalized pathways to CSU-proficiency as early as the 9th grade.
The roadmap is a wonderful counseling tool that can be used as early as 9th grade. Students create an account, complete a brief interview, and receive a self-adjusting list of action items that (we hope) will lead them to mathematics and English proficiency. As students check off completed items or indicate that the items cannot be completed, the list revises itself to reflect the new best pathway to proficiency.

24. The Senior Year Math Experience For Conditionally Ready Students
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The Senior Year Math Experience For Conditionally Ready Students
Students may fulfill their “conditional readiness” requirements by…
completing a math course that has Algebra II as a prerequisite or AP Physics with a grade of “C” or better. Note: A “C-” does not fulfill the requirement.
completing an online senior year math experience such as ALEKS in the spring semester.
Counselors often ask, “Does the senior year math experience have to be a full year course?’’ The answer is no, it doesn’t, but the student has to complete the full course as designed. This means that one semester of Pre-Calculus, a two semester course, would not fulfill the senior year requirement, but a one-semester Trigonometry or Applications of Algebra 2 course that was designed to be a one semester course would fulfill the senior year requirement.

25. EAP Presentation to Preservice Classes
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ALEKS: Intelligent Math Tutoring
ALEKS is an online tutorial that helps students prepare for the Entry Level Math (ELM) Exam
It costs $35 through the CSU Math Success website.
Fee waivers are available.
Students work at their own pace
Students can track their progress by viewing a pie chart that provides a snapshot of their current knowledge state.
A guided ALEKS course is available for “Conditionally Ready” students who are not taking math in their senior year. Passing this course fulfills the CSU math placement requirement.

26. Math Level and CSU Proficiency
The data in this graph come from a three-year study of 1,343 first-time freshmen at CSU Chico. The general message is this: Students who take a math class beyond Algebra 2 are significantly more successful in avoiding remediation than those who stop at Algebra 2. This relationship holds regardless of whether the highest level of math is taken in the junior or senior year. Furthermore, low grades in the class beyond Algebra 2 does not significantly increase the risk of remediation. Simply grappling with math at the level of pre-calculus or beyond deepens students’ math skills to a sufficient degree to allow them to pass the ELM at a very high rate.
Take-home line: In addition to encouraging students to take four years of math, encourage them to take math beyond Algebra 2.
First-time freshmen at CSU Chico, Fall 2004 through Fall 2006

27. Junior and Senior Coursework for Students in English
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Junior and Senior Coursework for Students in English
Expository Reading and Writing Course Schools that have sent English teachers to EAP professional development workshops may also be able to offer the ERWC, or individual modules from the course, to juniors and seniors. “B”-course approval was granted in June 2006.
Note: Many school districts across the state, including the gargantuan Los Angeles Unified School District, are already using the ERWC as a one- or two-semester senior year English course. Far more districts have ERWC-trained teachers who are using modules in their classrooms. Counselors should be urged to find out who the ERWC-trained teachers are at their sites so that they can give appropriate senior year advising to students who need extra help in ELA.

28. Professional Development for Teachers
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Professional Development for Teachers
Expository Reading and Writing Course
Emphasizes in-depth study of expository, analytical, and argumentative writing .
Deepens students’ critical reading, writing, and thinking skills.
Approved as a “b” course for juniors and seniors in the “a-g” college preparation sequence.
Reading Institutes for Academic Preparation
Helps teachers across the curriculum at every grade level become effective literacy instructors in their content areas.
Mathematics Program
Helps teachers recognize and create cognitively complex, multi-step problems that require students to develop creative approaches to problem solving

29. EAP Site Leader Handbook
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EAP Site Leader Handbook
This handbook will help you…
review the main components of the EAP.
locate program resources.
develop a school site action plan.

30. What Next?
Advise your juniors to take the EAP English and mathematics augmentations in the spring…and to fill in the status release bubble!
Have your juniors sign up at the Junior Portal for EAP reminders.
Connect your seniors to the appropriate resources, especially senior year mathematics classes for Conditionally Ready students. (In the second semester, refer students to ALEKS.) Find out which English teachers are offering ERWC-based lessons.
Encourage all students to visit the CSU Math and English Success websites and create roadmaps to readiness. Get to know the sites yourself!
Inform your school’s teachers about EAP professional development opportunities.
Get to know your local EAP coordinator. Invite him or her to your campus to talk to your students and staff.
Visit the CSU EAP Website at to learn more about the program and get your school’s data. Get the EAP site leader handbook at...

31. For further information, contact your local EAP coordinator.
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For further information, contact your local EAP coordinator.
Tom Reisz San José State University 408/
Christa Amouroux
San Francisco State University
415/
Aimee Sanchez
CSU Monterey Bay
831/
Claudia Quezada
CSU East Bay
510/