1. Assessment Brief: PSAT/NMSQT® and PSAT™ 10

2. Presentation Outcomes
Understand differences between previous SAT and redesigned SAT
Understand how scores are reported
Understand how to prepare for the SAT
Understand trends in admission process
Introduce self to parents.
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- 8 changes to SAT (Slide 9)
- SAT Score reporting ( Slide 18)
- Michigan colleges and university acceptance statistics ( Slide 26)
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3. Redesigned SAT plus Essay – April 2016
WorkKeys jobs skills assessments in reading, math and locating information - April 2016
Michigan developed assessments in math, science and social studies – April and May 20216
In recent years Michigan required students to complete the ACT as part of the Michigan Merit Exam ( MME). Effective 2016, all students attending a Michigan public school will be required to take the Michigan Merit Exam which now includes the redesined SAT, WorkKeys Tests and M-STEP assessments. The SAT is a test used by post secondary schools nationwide as a tool to determine whether students applying have the mathematics, reading and writing skills necessary to be successful once enrolled. The SAT has been recently redesigned to meet the academic skills recommended by post secondary schools.
The redesigned SAT and Workeys tests will be taken by all 11th grade students on April 12-13, 2016
The Michigan developed items will be assessed online during the following test window ---
For now let’s look at the redesigned SAT.

4. What Do Students Need to Know for Post-High School Success?
The College Board has identified a critical set of knowledge, skills, and understandings that predict student success in college and workforce training programs:
Comprehend challenging literary and informational texts
Revise and edit extended texts
Show command of math, especially algebra and data analysis
Use evidence in reading and writing
Analyze data
Use and understand words in context
Career and College Readiness is determined by student having a 75% chance of receiving an A or B in their college courses.
Share this slide and summarize the notes below.
1. Read, analyze, and use reasoning to comprehend challenging literary and informational texts, including texts on science and history/social studies topics, to demonstrate and expand their knowledge and understanding.
2. Revise and edit extended texts across a range of academic and career-related subjects for expression of ideas and to show facility with a core set of grammar, usage, and punctuation conventions.
3. Show command of a focused but powerful set of knowledge, skills, and understandings in math and apply that ability to solve problems situated in science, social studies, and career-related contexts.
4. Make careful and considered use of evidence as students read and write.
5. Demonstrate skill in analyzing data, including data represented graphically in tables, graphs, charts, in reading, writing, and math contexts.
6. Reveal an understanding of words in context and how word choice helps shape meaning and tone.

5. What Does the Redesigned PSAT and SAT Look Like?
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section
Reading Test
Writing and Language Test
Math Section
Math Test
SAT Essay (Required not optional in Michigan as part of the Michigan Merit Exam)
The redesigned SAT has 2 Sections: The Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section, and the Math Section. The Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section comprises two tests: the Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test. The Essay is NOT optional for students taking the MME

6. Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Overview
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section comprises the Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test.
Text complexity: 9th grade through first year post-high school
PSAT 8/9 reading levels are tested at grades 6 – 10
PSAT 10 reading levels are tests at grades 9 – 10
SAT reading level tests at grades
Emphasis on source analysis and use of evidence
Inclusion of data and informational graphics
Focus on words in context and on word choice for rhetorical effect
Students work with texts in literature, science and social studies
These are the key features of the Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test. (Together, the Reading Test and Writing and Language Test form the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section of the SAT)
Text complexity : 9th grade through first year post-high school
Emphasis on source analysis and use of evidence;
Inclusion of data and informational graphics
Focus on words in context and on word choice for rhetorical effect;
Students work with texts in literature, science and social studies.

7. On the Reading Test students must:
Comprehend a broad range of high-quality, appropriately challenging literary and informational texts
Read passages and answer associated multiple-choice questions. Some question sets will refer to paired passages, others will refer to only one passage.
Refer to the specific language in the passages and use careful reasoning to draw supportable inferences.
The overall aim of the Reading Test is to determine whether students can demonstrate college and career readiness proficiency in comprehending a broad range of high-quality, appropriately challenging literary and informational texts in the content areas of U.S. and world literature, history/social studies, and science.
The test will comprise a series of passages and associated multiple-choice questions. Some question sets will refer to paired passages, others will refer to only one passage.
Students must refer to the specific language in the passages and use careful reasoning to draw supportable inferences.

8. Writing and Language Test Overview
Assesses college and career readiness proficiency in revising and editing a range of texts.
Does not require students to provide written responses -- multiple-choice questions only. (the essay will be when student provides written response)
Attends to a core set of standard English language conventions and to effective written expression.
Some passages and/or questions will be accompanied by representations of data — tables, charts, graphs, etc.
All passages will be written specifically for the test.
The most common question format will require students to choose the best of three alternatives to an indicated part of the passage (often an underlined portion) or to determine that the version presented in the passage is the best option.
The Writing and Language Test assesses college and career readiness proficiency in revising and editing a range of texts. It
assesses development, organization, and effective language use, and it assesses conformity to the conventions of standard written English grammar, usage, and punctuation.
*The Writing and Language Test does not require students to provide written responses -- multiple-choice questions only.
*Attends to a core set of important English language conventions and to effective written expression
*Some passages and/or questions will be accompanied by representations of data — tables, charts, graphs, etc.
*Assesses ability to make revising and editing decisions to passages in light of information and ideas conveyed graphically. Mathematical computation not required.
*All passages will be written specifically for the test (no founding documents on the Writing and Language Test)
Errors (rhetorical or mechanical problems) will be introduced that students must recognize and correct.

9. How many schools do you recognize?
We use this slide to engage students and have them start thinking about college. Many students only know of colleges because of their sports. We start there and help them understand that choosing a college should be based on programs that align with their career interests.

10. How many schools do you recognize?
EMU
WMU
NMU
ALMA
LSSU
HOPE OU
SVSU
FSU
UMAA KC
CMU
Kettering
Delta
GVSU
MSU
These match the prior slide
WSU
Adrian
Olivet
MTU
Detroit Mercy
Hillsdale

11. This list show the minimum courses a Michigan public school student must complete in order to graduate. This will help ensure more students are prepared for college and career. However many students go beyond these minimum requirement. They take more challenging coursework while in high school. College and universities prefer students who excel at rigorous, challenging coursework.

12. This list show the 2015 acceptance statistics for several colleges and universities. Students and parents may use this data to benchmark the SAT and GPA score they need to be accepted at their targeted university.

13. The SAT® Suite of Assessments
All three tests are aligned. Students who take the PSAT will receive reports on their academic strengths and weaknesses as well as their predicted SAT score range.
Connect to College
Check-in and Focus
Readiness Baseline

14. Which Students Should Take These Assessments, and When?
How presentation will benefit audience: Adult learners are more interested in a subject if they know how or why it is important to them.
Presenter’s level of expertise in the subject: Briefly state your credentials in this area, or explain why participants should listen to you.

15. Benefits of the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10
Prepare students for college and career.
Link to online, personalized pathway for practice through Khan Academy
Identify students who have potential to succeed in AP courses
Provide entry into scholarship programs.
Collect and use valuable data
Identify skills for improvement
Build a college-going culture
Support college and career planning
The PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 offer many advantages to students and educators. Here are some specific ways the assessments support teaching and learning:
Prepare students for college and career. The PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 provide a mid-term measure of readiness. Assessments in the SAT Suite of Assessments focus on the things that matter most for college and career success, and provide multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their skills and make improvements.
Link to online, personalized pathway for practice through Khan Academy. The College Board has partnered with Khan Academy to provide free, personalized online practice. As the Khan Academy practice program continues to expand, students will have the opportunity to upload their test results to Khan Academy to receive targeted learning plans that students can use to learn more about and practice the skills they need to improve their college and career readiness.
Identify students who have potential to succeed in AP courses. AP Potential™, the easy-to-use online tool, identifies PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 students likely to succeed in Advanced Placement courses, helping educators expand access to rigorous courses.
Provide entry into scholarship programs. The PSAT/NMSQT is the qualifying test for entry to the National Merit® Scholarship Program, conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). Students who take the PSAT/NMSQT (typically in the fall of their junior year) and meet all other program entry requirements will be eligible to enter NMSC’s competitions.
Collect and use valuable data. Extensive data and reporting resources help educators identify skill gaps and improve instruction from their students’ PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 results. The electronic Student Data File (available as an optional report for PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10) allows educators to manage student assessment data to inform instruction and educational decisions, such as student placement in courses and intervention groups.
Identify skills for improvement. The Score reports give students comprehensive, personalized feedback on their test performance, allowing them to see which questions they answered incorrectly and which academic skills they should work to improve.
Build a college-going culture. Offering the SAT Suite of Assessments to all students helps create a college-going culture. The online college- and career-planning tools provided with the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 spark college-going aspirations and introduce students to opportunities available after high school.
Support college and career planning. The College Board offers personalized college and career planning tools that allow students to search online for colleges, explore majors and careers, and more.

16. Example organizations offering scholarships through PSAT/NMSQT:
American Indian Graduate Center
Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
Both the PSAT/NMSQT and the PSAT 10 offer opportunities in other scholarship and recognition programs, such as the National Hispanic Recognition Program. Beginning with the class of 2015, the following organizations will use data from the PSAT/NMSQT to enhance their recruitment efforts and reach a more representative group of eligible students from high schools across the country:

17. PSAT/NMSQT & PSAT 10 Reading Test Content Specifications

18. PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 Writing and Language Test Content Specifications

19. PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 Math Test Specifications

20. Grade-Appropriate Reading

21. Grade-Appropriate Writing and Language

22. Grade-Appropriate Math

23. Redesigned Assessment Scores Side-By-Side

24. only makes the problem worse. New roads generate higher levels of
PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 - Reading Test Sample Questions
It’s ironic that so many people still believe the main remedy for
traffic congestion is to build more roads and highways, which of course
only makes the problem worse. New roads generate higher levels of
“induced traffic,” that is, new roads just invite drivers to drive more and
lure people who take mass transit back to their cars. Eventually, we end
up with more clogged roads rather than a long-term improvement in
traffic flow.
The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs,
innovation, and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and city-
regions. Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of their
infrastructure, while others struggle, their promise stymied by inadequate
human or other resources.
Line 40 45
Content: Information and Ideas/Interpreting words and phrases in context
OBJECTIVE: Students must
determine the meaning of a word in the context in which it appears.
Difficulty: Easy

25. As used in line 43, “intense” most nearly means
A) emotional.
B) concentrated.
C) brilliant.
D) determined.

26. Answer
Choice B is the best answer because the context makes clear that
the clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity will be more
concentrated in, or more densely packed into, “a smaller number
of bigger cities and city-regions” (lines 44-45).

27. PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 - Writing and Language Test Sample Questions
[1] Kingman was keenly interested in landscape painting from an early age. [2] In Hong Kong, where Kingman completed his schooling, teachers at that time customarily assigned students a formal “school name.” [3] His interest was so keen, in fact, that he was named after it. [4] The young boy who had been Dong Moy Shu became Dong Kingman. [5] The name Kingman was selected for its two parts: “king” and “man,” Cantonese for “scenery” and “composition.” [6] As Kingman developed as a painter, his works were often compared to 1 paintings by Chinese landscape artists dating back to CE 960, a time when a strong tradition of landscape painting emerged in Chinese art. [7] Kingman, however 2 vacated from that tradition in a number of ways, most notably in that he chose to focus not on natural landscapes, such as mountains and rivers, but on cities. 3 His fine brushwork conveys detailed street-level activity: a peanut vendor pushing his cart on the sidewalk, a pigeon pecking for crumbs around a fire hydrant, an old man tending to a baby outside a doorway.
Content classification:
Humanities
OBJECTIVE: Students must make revising and editing decisions in the context of a passage on a topic in the humanities.

28. B) Chinese landscape artists C) painters of Chinese landscapes
. 1 A) NO CHANGE
B) Chinese landscape artists
C) painters of Chinese landscapes
D) artists
Content: Conventions of Usage/Logical comparison
Objective: Students must ensure that like terms are being compared.
Difficulty: Medium

29. Choice A is the best answer because it creates a comparison between like terms: “works” by Kingman and “paintings by Chinese landscape artists.”
Content: Effective language Use/Precision
Objective: Students must determine the most contextually appropriate word.
Difficulty: Hard

31. PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 - Math Test Sample Questions
How many of the 9 people have an actual height that differs by more than 3 centimeters from the height predicted by the line of best fit?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 9

32. Answer
Choice B is correct. The people who have first metacarpal bones of length 4.0, 4.3, 4.8, and 4.9 centimeters have heights that differ by more than 3 centimeters from the height predicted by the line of best fit.

33. Aaron is staying at a hotel that charges $99
Aaron is staying at a hotel that charges $99.95 per night plus tax for a room. A tax of 8% is applied to the room rate, and an additional one-time untaxed fee of $5.00 is charged by the hotel. Which of the following represents Aaron’s total charge, in dollars, for staying x nights? A) ( x) + 5 B) 1.08(99.95x) + 5 C) 1.08(99.95x + 5) D) 1.08( )x

34. Answer
Choice B is correct. The total charge that Aaron will pay is the room
rate, the 8% tax on the room rate, and a fixed fee. If Aaron stayed
x nights, then the total charge is (99.95x X 99.95x) + 5,
which can be rewritten as 1.08(99.95x) + 5.

35. Anise needs to complete a printing job using both of the printers in her office. One of the printers is twice as fast as the other, and together the printers can complete the job in 5 hours. The equation below represents the
situation described.
Content: Passport to Advanced Math
No Calculator

37. Answer
Choice B is correct. From the description given, is the portion of the job that the two printers, working together, can complete in one hour, and each term in the sum on the left side is the part of this of the job that one of the printers contributes. Since one of the printers is twice as fast as the other, describes the portion of the job that the faster printer is able to complete in one hour and describes the portion of the job that the slower printer is able to complete in one hour.

38. How To Prepare for the PSAT and Redesigned SAT
Take the most challenging courses available at your school
Read often. Build your reading stamina with multiple types of texts
Understand the test format and take practice tests. There are several free online tests.
Know your academic strengths and weaknesses. Ask your instructor how to improve in areas of weakness
Khan Academy can help with personalized tutorials
The most important thing students can do to prepare for the SAT is to take the most challenging courses available to them, do their best work, and benefit from daily instruction that prepares them for college and career. With this in mind, students will want some help to prepare for the SAT. They should also consider:
Take the most challenging courses available at your school
Read often. Build your reading stamina with multiple types of texts
Understand the test format and take practice tests. There are several free online tests.
Know your academic strengths and weaknesses. Ask your instructor how to improve in areas of weakness
Khan Academy can help with personalized tutorials

39. Practice with Khan Academy
Features include:
Thousands of practice problems
Personalized tutorials on test content
Official SAT practice questions and full-length tests
Comprehensive reporting for students
Access anytime, anywhere — for free
For the first time ever, all students will have access to the best test practice available, regardless of educational background or ability to pay for preparation.
Together College Board and Khan Academy are developing comprehensive practice materials that will be personalized, interactive, and engaging.
It will be powered by thousands of practice problems, co-developed by the College Board and Khan Academy.

40. Practice with Khan Academy
Practice programs will be individually targeted to address each student’s greatest areas of need (based on diagnostic assessment on khanacademy.org.).
Khan Academy provides online guides and suggestions to help teachers use Khan Academy supports in classroom instruction.
When your students create their online accounts with Khan Academy, they will have the opportunity to take diagnostic tests in math and ELA. This allows the Khan Academy program to evaluate a student’s results and create a practice program that is individually targeted to address each student’s greatest areas of need.
******* The College Board and Khan Academy are currently working to find ways for teachers, administrators, and parents to track their students' usage, progress, and recommendations. Khan Academy currently provides online guides and suggestions to help teachers use Khan supports in classroom instruction.
After explaining the slide, go to Khan Academy site at for quick demonstration and show students how to get started.
Remind participants that Khan Academy training for teachers is in development. Check collegereadiness.collegeboard.org to learn more about this training.
Ask if anyone is using Khan with their students? Ask them to comment.

41. Scores and Score Ranges Across the SAT Suite of Assessments
The SAT Suite of Assessments, one component of the College Board Readiness and Success System, comprises the PSAT 8/9 (TM), PSAT 10™, PSAT/NMSQT®, and SAT®, and focuses on the few, durable skills that evidence shows matter most for college and career success. The tests included in the SAT Suite of Assessments are connected by the same underlying content continuum of knowledge and skills, providing schools with the ability to align vertical teams and create cross-subject tasks.
All of the tests in the SAT Suite of Assessments will include the same score categories: Total score, Section scores, Test scores, Cross-Test scores, and Subscores. (Notable exceptions: SAT only will have Essay scores, and the PSAT 8/9 will not have a subscore in Passport to Advanced Math.) In this system, by design, the assessments are created to cover a slightly different range of content complexity that increases from PSAT8/9 to PSAT/NMSQT to SAT. This increase in content complexity also corresponds to an increase in the difficulty level of each test. As one could easily imagine PSAT/NMSQT is more difficult/challenging than PSAT8/9, and SAT is more difficult than PSAT/NMSQT. To support these differences in test difficulty, and to also support a common metric against which students can be measured over time, the Test Scores and Cross-Test Scores will be vertically equated across SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, and PSAT 8/9. Vertical Equating refers to a statistical procedure whereby tests designed to differ in difficulty are placed on a common metric. This allows the tests to function as a system where student performance over time can consistently be measured against a common metric, showing growth over time for a student (or at an aggregate).
The min-max scores vary from assessment to assessment to show the difference in complexity of knowledge on the different tests. Theoretically, if a student were to take the PSAT 8/9, PSAT 10, SAT on the same day, they would score the same on each assessment, but if you scored “perfectly” on all three, you would only get a 720 vs an 800 for Math in PSAT 8/9 vs SAT – because the difficulty of questions is that much harder on SAT.
To see how this plays out across the exams, the graphic on the slide summarizes the effect on Section Scores (the score for Math and Evidence-Based Reading and Writing that is most commonly referenced in SAT).
As you see on the slide, scores on the SAT will be represented across a point range. For the PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10, scores will range from And the PSAT 8/9 scores will range from A 600 on the PSAT 8/9 is equivalent to a 600 on the SAT.
Note: Subscores are not vertically scaled, therefore you would not be able to show growth for a student or aggregate from assessment to assessment at the subscore level.
Until the College Board has collected and analyzed data from administrations of the PSAT/NMSQT (2015) and the redesigned SAT (2016), PSAT/NMSQT scores cannot be used to predict SAT scores taken one year later. This research will be completed following actual administrations of both tests. Following the first administrations of the tests, the College Board will also determine college readiness benchmarks and develop concordance tables.
SUBSCORES ARE NOT VERTICALLY EQUATED

42. Trends in the Admissions Process
Many colleges/universities prioritize h.s grades and coursework rigor over test scores.
The majority of Michigan colleges /universities accept both ACT and SAT for admission.
Take the ACT if you think your score will give you an advantage toward acceptance.
Go to Career Cruising to learn about the requirement for your colleges of interest
Many colleges/universities prioritize h.s grades and coursework rigor over test scores.
The majority of Michigan colleges /universities accept both ACT and SAT for admission.
Take the ACT if you think your score will give you an advantage toward acceptance.
Go to Career Cruising to learn about the requirement for your colleges of interest

43. Institutional Importance of Admissions Factors
GPA College Prep Courses %
GPA in All Subjects %
Admissions Test Scores %
Counselor Letter of Recommendation 62%
Teacher Letter of Recommendation 60%
Essay/Writing Sample %
Class Rank %
Student’s Demonstrated Interest 50%
Extracurricular %
Source: NACAC ‘State of College Admission’ 2008 Report
Institutions surveyed in a NACAC 2008 report identified the Admissions Test Scores (ACT or SAT) as a major factor in determining admissions decisions, preceded slightly by student GPA in College Prep Courses in high school and GPA in all subjects. These three factors far out place any of the other factors on the list.

44. www.careercruising.com Michigan State University 2015
Select Education from menu
Type Michigan State in search box
Select Enrollment from side menu
Scroll to SAT score for freshman
To learn about enrollment trends for colleges/university nationwide, go to the Career Cruising website. After entering your students username and password to access your EDP, select education on the menu bar. Then type your school in the search box. Once your schools profile appears, choose “enrollment” on the left-side menu bar. This will provide you SAT trends for last years freshmen class.

45. Next steps for students
1. Take challenging coursework in high school
2. Sign up for Khan Academy
3. Take PSAT in grades
4. Understand your strengths and weaknesses. Seek help on areas of weakness
5. Read multiple type texts often
1. Take challenging coursework in high school
2. Sign up for Khan Academy
3. Take PSAT in grades
4. Understand your strengths and weaknesses. Seek help on areas of weakness
5. Read, read and read.

46. For more information:
Jeffrey Dole Career Preparation Specialist Capital Area Career Center/IISD 611 Hagadorn Mason, MI  (517)