Where Do I Start? PSAT/NMSQT® 101 Score Week for Counselors December 4–8, 2017

Jennifer Dunn, Director Today’s Presenter The College Board Counselor Community Engagement Jennifer has been with the College Board for nine years, working with school counseling professionals at the district and national levels. Before that, she spent 12 years as a school counselor in Baltimore City Public Schools, and also taught social studies. From 2010 to 2011, Jennifer served as president of the Maryland School Counselor Association.

Michelle B. Catucci School Counseling Department Chairperson Cheshire High School CSCA Executive Director Michelle B. Catucci is the School Counseling Department Chair at Cheshire High School in Connecticut. She has been a school counselor for 11 years, working at both the middle and high school levels. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Connecticut School Counselor Association (CSCA). She is also a Past President of CSCA and has been on the CSCA Governing Board for 11 years. She has her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Villanova University, her Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology from Chatham University, and her Sixth Year degree in Educational Leadership from Southern Connecticut State University.

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Where Do I Start? PSAT/NMSQT® 101 • If you have connection issues, please

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FAQ’s System Test

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Your LearningExperience Top of your screen • Slides

• Continuing Education CreditGuidelines

Left of Your Screen • Ask a Question

• Event Resources

• Join the Counselor Community

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How to Earn Continuing Education Units (CEU) Continuing Education Units are nowavailable for live and on-demand counselor webinars

Step #1: To get CEU credit you must complete registration and attend theentire event you registered for.

Step #2: You’re required to show mastery of the online session’s learningoutcomes by taking a post-webinar quiz. The quiz will be sent directly after the webinar with the post-webinar evaluation.

Step #3: You must answer 3 out of the 5 questions (60%) correctly to receiveyour CEU certificate. You’ll get your certificate immediately after satisfying thequiz requirement.

Learn More About CEU Guidelines: https://professionals.collegeboard.com/prof-dev/workshops/ceu-credits

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Score Week for Counselors Get the most out of the K–12 score reporting portal

• Discover resources and download this presentation at psat.org/scoreweek

Live and on-demand webinar offerings with access to resources, tools, and videos so you can get the most of the K–12 reporting portal

For Administrators: • How Principals Can Create School Change with PSAT/NMSQT Results

For Teachers: • How Teachers Can Use the PSAT/NMSQT to Support Student Success

For Counselors: • Where Do I Start? PSAT/NMSQT 101 • Enhance Your PSAT/NMSQT Score Conversations • Continue PSAT/NMSQT Score Momentum

Bonus Webinar:

• Using New Official SAT Practice Coaching Tools 6

A Starter Kit Check out the new PSAT–related assessments Counselor Starter Kit with helpful guides, presentations,handouts, and web resources.

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Make the Most of PSAT/NMSQT Scores Use the K–12 Educator Portal to focus, evaluate and promote your school counseling program!

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During today’s presentation, you will: What You’ll Learn • How the PSAT/NMSQT® works with other assessments to measure

progress over time.

• What an Access Manager does, who the Access Manager is at your school, and user roles and capabilities.

• The basics on navigating the K‒12 Educator Portal to access the Roster Report.

• Labels • Score reports

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Overview of the SAT® Suite of Assessments K‒12 Educator Reporting

SAT Suite of Assessments

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Beyond Tests, More Opportunities

UnderstandingScores on the PSAT/NMSQT

Monitor Progress Section Scores are placed on a vertical scale.

Over Time SAT (200–800)

PSAT 10 & PSAT/NMSQT (160–760)

PSAT 8/9 (120–720)

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The same concept holds true for the Test, Cross-Test Scores, and Total Score.

SAT (10–40)

PSAT 10 & PSAT/NMSQT (8–38)

SAT (400–1600)

PSAT 10 & PSAT/NMSQT (320–1520)

PSAT 8/9 (240–1440) PSAT 8/9 (6–36)

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Accessing theK‒12 Score Reporting Portal The Basics

 

 

 

       

 

 

Benefits of the K‒12 Score Reporting Portal

• Single login for access to score reports for all assessments in the SAT Suite

• Interactive features for educators (e.g., sorting, filtering)

• Counselor registration and Score Roster access

• Ability to batch print: • Student score reports • Score labels • SAT admission tickets

• Enhanced data and drill-down capabilities

• Enables “search” and creation of custom groups

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Accessing theK–12 Score Reporting Portal:The Basics • Before you can use the score

reporting portal, you need to be given access.

• The Access Manager is the person responsible for giving access toanyone at your school who needs it.

• You will be assigned one or more reporting roles, based on the information you need to help yourstudents.

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Accessing theK–12 Score Reporting Portal:The Basics If you need help or haven’t received you access code, contact us at k12reports@info.collegeboard.org or 888-477-7728.

• The Access Manager can use the Invite feature to grant access toindividuals who need to view student scores but who don’t have a CollegeBoard account or don’t work directly for the school.

• IMPORTANT: If you’re a principal or administrator who has already assigned the Access Manager role:

• That person will be the Access Manager until you choose to havesomeone else take on that role.

• You do not have to reassign this role every year, but it’s important that you extend the expiration date and extend as appropriate.

• All other roles are valid for no more than one year; the Access Manager chooses the expiration date(s) when they assign roles.

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Process for Educator Access

1. Create a College Board Professional Account

2. Request Access from the Access Manager

3. Log in to the SAT Suite of Assessments Reporting Tool

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ReportingTool Roles Get the right access for your needs.

SAT Suite Reporting Tool

K‒12 Data Files

Download Center

K‒12 Summary

K‒12 Detail

Reports Center

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Access at a Glance What each role can do

Access Manager

File Downloads Summary Reports Detailed Reports

Manage your school’s access

Download data files

View student-level scores

View aggregate score data

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Who should or should not be the Access Manager? Michelle B. Catucci School Counseling DepartmentChairperson, Cheshire High SchoolCSCA Executive Director

• Determining who should have the role of Access Manager will vary by school/district.

• Some questions to consider when determining who should be an Access Manager:

• How many people do you want to be able to grant other peopleaccess to the K‒12 Portal?

• Do you want only a few people to have control over granting accessto members of your faculty?

• Do you want all of your department heads to be able to give accessto individual teachers in their department?

• Also determine how different tasks will be divided up: • Who will be granting access to members of the faculty? • How will those requests be made? • Who will be checking expiration dates for staff and making updates to

the list of people with access to reports?

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Educator Login Page

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Reports in the K‒12 Score Reporting Portal

Student Intervention

Curriculum and Instruction Review

School Improvement and Accountability

Scores by Institution

Roster Reports

Student Reports

Scores by Institution

Essay Scores by Institution

Instructional Planning

Question Analysis

Scores by Demographics

Essay Scores by Demographics

Benchmarks by Demographics

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Landing Page forEasy Access Available only to the Detail User

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Reports CenterNavigation

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Roster Detail Report

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Score Reportsand Label Printing

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Customize Fields to Get Student Data Most Relevant to Your Needs NOTE: All data are illustrative

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What reports will mycolleagues need access to? Michelle B. Catucci School Counseling DepartmentChairperson, Cheshire High SchoolCSCA Executive Director

Work with your administrators to determine what makes sense for your school.

Access needed may vary by role. Here are some recommendations:

• Counselors: Access to Detailed Reports to see all data for students on their caseload to help in postsecondary planning and current needs inschool

• Administrators: Access to Detailed Reports to see all data for allstudents in their school to make data-informed school wide decisions and plan for intervention opportunities from the building level

• Teachers • Not all teachers need access to reports

• Maintain student confidentiality • Detailed Reports for Department Leaders and Teachers providing

individual student interventions based on PSAT/SAT data • Summary Reports for Teachers only using PSAT/SAT data to inform

instruction at the classroom or department level who do not needindividual student scores

• Other Personnel: Other school staff may need access to reports: • IT Staff —Access to the Download Center • Administrative Assistants —Access to Detailed Report to print score

reports and labels • Central Office Staff—Access to Summary and/or Detailed Report for

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Q&A

K�12 Educators Portal Educators from across the countryhave accessed the K�12 Educators Portal.

Here’s what a few of them had to say.

“All College and Career Counselors, Lead English Teachers (ELA), Math Coaches, and Assistant Principals are trained in the K-12 Score Report Portal prior to the PSAT/NMSQT scores are released. The training is focused on accessing the portal, using score data to inform and drive instruction. We also use the data to identify potential National Merit students and AP potential students.” Amanda Lopez, Coordinator of College and Career Counseling Services AVID District Director of High Schools,, School District of Osceola County Florida �“Use the PSAT/NMQT score reporting portal to identify achievement gaps by teaming up with the Math teachers to develop an action plan that implements instructional strategies for the classroom, parent information meetings, and student classroom and advising sessions.” Dawn Mann, School Counselor Harrison High School in Kennesaw, Georgia

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College Boardfor Counselors collegeboard.org/counselors

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ImportantInformation You can live chat with us anytime this week via the Boost Counselor Community:

boost.poweredbyaction.org/communities/college-board-counselors

You will receive scores on December 4.

Students will receive their scores online beginning December 11–13.

Check out other Score Week resources at psat.org/scoreweek:

• Videos

• Downloadable one-pagers

• PowerPoint presentations

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Thank You. psat.org/scoreweek

At the close of the webinar, please:

• complete the webinar evaluation. We want to ensure wecontinue to provide excellent professional development.

• complete the 5 question CEU Quiz to earn hours (optional).

Enjoy your school year!

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