Session IIICollege Readiness: Cognitive

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College Readiness: Cognitive• What we already know:

– All students need cognitive skills (reading, writing, mathematics) to succeed in college.

• Where we are struggling:– How do we build better students? – What changes to the current educational system can be

implemented to increase the percentage of students who graduate high school academically prepared for college?

• Based on the criteria of having a 65% probability of earning a B- in first-year courses, a college readiness benchmark of 1550 was obtained for the SAT. An SAT score of 1550 translates to only 45.7 percent of the 2009 College Bound Seniors cohort being college ready (Wiley, Wyatt, & Camara, 2010).

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Dr. A. Wade BoykinGoing Broader and Deeper in Understanding How to Close the

Achievement Gap(s)

• Professor; Director of the graduate program in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. Executive Director of the Capstone Institute for School Reform at Howard.

• Research interests include research methodology; the interface of culture, context, motivation, and cognition; Black child development; and academic achievement in the American social context.

• Currently completing book: Promoting High Achievement for All Children: Evidence-Based Programs, Practices and Procedures.

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Dr. Phillip J. BowmanUnderstanding and Improving the Efficacy of Pipeline

Interventions: A Comprehensive Social Psychological Approach

• Founding Director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) at the University of Michigan; Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education.

• Research interests include cultural diversity issues in research methodology, higher education, and pressing public policy challenges, including health disparities, urban poverty, family distress, joblessness, and affirmative action.

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Dr. James E. RosenbaumBuilding better students by building better college procedures: How community colleges could better convey incentives for school effort

• Professor of sociology, education and social policy at Northwestern University

• One of his areas of research concerns the high school to work transition and linkages among students, schools, and employers.

• His books include:– Crossing the Class and Color Lines (2000)– Beyond College for All (2001)– After Admission: From College Access to College Success (2006)

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Dr. Neal SchmittCombining Cognitive and Non-cognitive Measures: Expanding

the Domain of College Performance and its Prediction

• University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Michigan State University

• APA President of Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement & Statistics) and a Fellow of Divisions 5 and 14 for APA and the Association for Psychological Science

• Research interests include personnel and selection and academic admissions

– His recent research on academic admissions has focused on developing procedures to assess college students’ ability and motivation in noncognitive domains that might predict their success in college.

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College Readiness: Cognitive

• Speakers are scheduled to talk for 30-40 minutes

• After each speaker, we will have 10-20 minutes for questions

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