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College & Career Readiness College & Career Readiness in Illinoisin Illinois
Brian Durham
Senior Director for Academic Affairs & CTE
Illinois Community College Board
Julia Waskosky
Dean of Student Development
Kankakee Community College
The NumbersThe Numbers46% of recent Illinois public high school
graduates transitioning as full-time community college freshmen in 2006-08 enrolled in at least one remedial course (Office of the Lieutenant Governor, 2012).
36% of recent Illinois public high school graduates transitioning as full-time community college freshmen in 2006-08 enrolled in at least one remedial math course (2012).
21% of recent Illinois public high school graduates transitioning as full-time community college freshmen in 2006-08 enrolled in at least one remedial English course (2012).
The NumbersThe Numbers
ACT College Readiness Benchmarks
ACT (2011) as cited in Office of the Lieutenant Governor (2012)
The ReasonsThe ReasonsMost jobs require some skills
associated with higher education (Carnevale, et al., 2011).
An individual with a Bachelor’s degree earns 2.1 million dollars over the course of his or her life, twice as much as an individual with only a high school diploma (U.S. Department of Education, 2006, p. 7).
The Policy EnvironmentThe Policy EnvironmentIllinois’ Completion Agenda– 60 x
2025P-20 CouncilCollege and Career Readiness
Efforts
Illinois Completion AgendaIllinois Completion Agenda 60 x 2025Focus on the Finish calls for:
◦The creation of a statewide college and career readiness framework.
◦“Community colleges should collaborate with K-12 education in a systematic way to set expectations and measure the impact of this secondary and postsecondary collaboration.”
Improved data collection Universal assessment Dissemination of best practices Promoting collaboration
P-20 Working GroupP-20 Working GroupMission: “to increase students'
opportunities for success in college and careers by developing indicators and recommending policies to support and align transitions across the P-20 spectrum and with other stakeholders.”
Goals: ◦“Define” College and Career Readiness
Informed by the Conley Model Informed by the ACTE Model
◦Benchmark College and Career Readiness
◦Recommend Policy to the Education Agencies and the P-20 Council
The Conley ModelThe Conley Model
The ACTE ModelThe ACTE Model
The Complexity of College The Complexity of College and Career Readinessand Career Readiness
Conley: The Complexity of College & Career Readiness
The College and Career The College and Career Readiness Pilot Project Act: Readiness Pilot Project Act: The ElementsThe Elements Develop a system to diagnose
college readiness Reduce the need for remediation Align high school and college
curriculum Enrich the senior year Establish an evaluation process
to measure effectiveness of the intervention strategies
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollegeBuilding relationships with
secondary school systems.
Initial response to the college and career readiness needs of high school graduates.
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollege
COURSE PLACEMENT
SCORES
NUMBER TESTED
INTO
PERCENTAGE
WRITING SKILLS: ADULT EDUCATION (below 5th gr level)
0-9 23 5.0%
WRIT 0983 PREP FOR COLLEGE WRITING I (5th to 7th gr level)
10-21 43 9.3% WRIT 0993 PREP FOR COLLEGE WRITING II (8th – 10th gr level)
22-55 108 23.3%
ENGL 1413 FUNDAMENTALS OF WRITING (10th – 12th gr level)
56-76 151 32.6%
ENGL 1613 ENGLISH I (COLLEGE READY)
77-99
138 29.8%
PRE-ALGEBRA: ADULT EDUCATION (below 5th gr level)
0-17 7 3.2%
MATH 0983 PREP FOR COLLEGE MATH I (5th to 7th gr level)
18-31 33 15.1%
MATH 0993 PREP FOR COLLEGE MATH II
MATH 1213 APPLIED ARITHMETIC (8th – 10th gr level)
32-44109 50.0%
MATH 1414 BASIC ALGEBRA
MATH 1113 TECH MATH I (Equivalent to high school Alg 1)
45-9969 31.7%
ALGEBRA: ADULT EDUCATION
0-24
MATH 1424, MATH 1453, MATH 1123 ( equivalent to high school Alg 11)
38-59
MATH 1814, MATH 1803, MATH 1774, MATH 1613, MATH 2113, BSNS 2514 (college ready)
60-99
COLLEGE ALGEBRA:
MATH 1814, 1803, 1774, 1904, 1613, 2113, BSNS 2514 0-45 MATH 1713, MATH 1823, MATH 1853, MATH 2515 46-99
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollegeInitial strategies included:
◦COMPASS testing juniors◦Curriculum alignment meetings
English and math
◦Summer Bridge programming
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollegeSupport from the state and ICCB
FundingAdditional partnersFocusData collection
The College and Career The College and Career Readiness Pilot Project Act Readiness Pilot Project Act 20092009Contacted 3,500 students and
Enrolled 400 in interventions71 Meetings with High Schools and
Interacted with 566 College and High School Staff. These meetings led to better alignment of high school to college curriculum.
Approximately 200 CCR Students Transitioned to Credit Bearing Courses or Higher Levels of Developmental Coursework.
The College and Career The College and Career Readiness Pilot Project Act Readiness Pilot Project Act 20102010 Seven Sites contacted 12,575 students
and enrolled 884 students in interventions.
251 separate meetings with high schools and interacted with hundreds of college and high school staff.
CCR sites partnered with 75 high schools. Approximately 384 CCR students
transitioned to credit bearing courses or higher levels of developmental coursework.
CCR Data 2011CCR Data 2011
CCR Data 2011CCR Data 2011
CCR Data 2011CCR Data 2011
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollegeSignificant results
◦Parental awareness KnowHow2Go campaign
◦COMPASS scores◦ 2010 - 190 testers - 76 college ready earned waivers -17
redeemed them
◦ 2011 - 607 testers - 246 earned waivers - 23 redeemed them
◦ 2012 - 723 testers - 221 earned waivers - 84 redeemed them
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollegeSignificant results continued
◦Curriculum alignment Math faculty liaison English faculty liaison
Kankakee Community Kankakee Community CollegeCollege
Continuing the momentum:Continued services/cost sharingMiddle school participationCredit recovery consortium
NEXT STEPS: STEM College NEXT STEPS: STEM College and Career Readinessand Career ReadinessPart of the Race to the TopSeven Community Colleges are in
the process of being selectedHighly Prescriptive Model PlannedMath Focused Tied to the Race to the Top Districts
◦Must be able to serve a RTTT DistrictFall, Spring Interventions; Summer
Bridge
What are we responding What are we responding to?to?
The Core Elements of The Core Elements of SuccessSuccess
How must we be diligent?How must we be diligent?
References:
Office of the Lieutenant Governor (2012). Focus on the Finish: http://www2.illinois.gov/ltgov/Documents/CC%20Report%20for%20web.pdf
Illinois Community College Board: www.iccb.org
Educational Policy Improvement Center: https://www.epiconline.org/
Association for Career & Technical Education: https://www.acteonline.org/readiness.aspx
ACT (2011). “Illinois; The Condition of College and Career Readiness, 2011.” http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2011/states/pdf/Illinois.pdf