COMPASS KENTUCKY

MINNI Testing Centers inHigh Schools for COMPASS

TAMMY DUDDYASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS,

TESTING SERVICESUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

&CINDY SPROEHNLE

ASSESSMENT CENTER DIRECTOR GATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE,

KCTCS

KENTUCKY

• Background• Implementation• Advantages• College Use• Results

BACKGROUND

• Kentucky Department of Education& the Legislature wanted more students to meet the ACT Benchmarks and to be College Ready (which means NOT needing developmental courses or remediation)

• All KY High School Juniors take ACT paid for by the State• Students who miss the benchmarks in either Reading,

English and/or Math and are identified as NOT college ready are provided some type of intervention while attending high school. There are 10 types of intervention strategies which include: Transition Courses, Tutoring, Instructional software, etc.

Background continued

• After the completion of the interventions students take COMPASS in their senior year

• ONE TIME ONLY, no retesting• COMPASS is less expensive & less time consuming

because it can be taken per subject area as opposed to the ACT.

• COMPASS and ACT have concordant scores

College Readiness Indicators

Readiness Score Area ACT Score SAT Score COMPASS KYOTE

English (Writing) English 18 or higher

Writing 430 or higher

Writing 74 or higher 3,4 6 or higher5

Reading Reading 20 or higher

Critical Reading 470 or higher

Reading 85 or higher6 20 or higher

Mathematics (General Education, Liberal Arts Courses)

Mathematics 19 or higher

Mathematics 460 or higher

Algebra Domain 36 or higher7

College Readiness Mathematics 22 or higher

Mathematics (College Algebra)

Mathematics 22 or higher

Mathematics 510 or higher

Algebra Domain 50 or higher8

College Algebra 14 or higher9

Mathematics (Calculus)

Mathematics 27 or higher

Mathematics 610 or higher NA10 Calculus TBA

Explore and Plan scores to identify “at risk” students

Subject Area Explore Plan ACT COMPASS

English / Writing Skills

13 15 18 74

Math 17 19 22 65

Reading 15 17 21 88

IMPLEMENTATION

• Kentucky Department of Education purchased the COMPASS license and over 110,000 testing units to be administered through KY high schools

• Jennifer Stafford, Office of Assessment & Accountability, KDE coordinated training & implementation of the Compass Initiative in KY high schools

• The KDE created 229 high schools as test centers • Webinars were conducted by Frank Potter and KDE for

training of District Assessment Coordinators & high school staff on the COMPASS software

ADVANTAGES

• High School accountability standards could increase• Students who take Compass, and are successful, can

attend two and four year institutions in KY without remediation

• Colleges (2-4 yr.) have access to the COMPASS scores and use them for placement purposes

• Students do not have to retest if their score meet benchmarks

• Scores are uploaded to colleges mainframe system (such as Peoplesoft)

COLLEGE USE

• University of Louisville was able to use the COMPASS data from the high schools this year to decrease the amount of testing administered during Orientation.

• U of L was able to have a log in to the KDE Compass test bank to pull scores from the Kentucky high schools of those students.

Results

In 2011, notice the increase in the counties to 41%-60% College Readyas opposed to

2010 where most were in the 21%-40% College Ready range

2010 2011