ERIC Number: ED565475
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014-May
Pages: 13
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Menu of College Readiness Indicators and Supports. College Readiness Indicator Systems (CRIS) Resource Series
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
School communities across the country are working hard to comply with state and federal policies requiring that all students be prepared for success in college. Technological advances and new reporting requirements make data on students and schools more accessible than ever--but more and better data alone are not enough to meet the challenges posed by the troubling opportunity and achievement gaps that keep many students from reaching their goals after high school. Schools need a strong, systemic approach to fostering college readiness that includes a range of appropriate indicators, supports tied to those indicators, reliable data infrastructure, and the system-wide capacity to make good use of data to inform action. This "Menu of College Readiness Indicators and Supports" is the product of an extensive review of the research examining factors that predict students' readiness for college, conducted by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. The Menu consists of valid, reliable, and actionable indicators of the three dimensions of college readiness that college readiness indicator systems advance--academic preparedness, academic tenacity, and college knowledge--organized at the individual (student), setting (school), and system (district and partners) levels. [See the related report: "Essential Elements in Implementation" at ED565476.]
Descriptors: College Readiness, Educational Indicators, Predictor Variables, College Bound Students, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Knowledge Level, Skills, Institutional Characteristics, Board of Education Role, Student Characteristics, Educational Resources, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Practices, School Policy, Educational Environment, Alignment (Education), College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Educational Administration, Beliefs, Values
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. Stanford University, 505 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305. Tel: 650-723-3099; Fax: 650-736-7160; e-mail: gardnercenter@lists.stanford.edu; Web site: http://gardnercenter.stanford.edu
Publication Type: Guides - General; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Secondary Education; High Schools; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: Stanford University, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (JGC); Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University; University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: ACT Assessment; SAT (College Admission Test)
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