As your school seeks to improve the overall quality of its instructional program, look to ACT for information resources to guide your efforts.
- Understanding student abilities, needs, and goals
- Developing courses that match the academic abilities of entering students
- Using diagnostic measures of academic ability for effective remediation
Understanding student abilities, needs, and goals
The more faculty members know about the entering students at your school, the more effective their teaching can be. In particular, faculty members will benefit from understanding
- What students know and what they are able to do
- What academic needs students have
- How the abilities and needs of students have changed over the past several years
- How the educational and career interests of students fit with the strengths and resources of your school
ACT offers several sources of group data about entering students that you can share with faculty members. These sources include:
- Freshman Class Profile Service
- Prediction Service Report
- Aggregate reports available through ASSET® and COMPASS®
Developing courses that match the academic abilities of entering students
ACT's College Readiness Standards and the accompanying Information Services will help you put a human face on students' test scores. Using this instrument, you can assess the extent to which first-year courses at your institution match the academic abilities of your entering students.
The Course Placement Service helps ensure that entering students are placed in courses in which they are likely to succeed.
The Underprepared Student Follow-Up Report in ASSET and COMPASS documents the effectiveness of your developmental courses by following up on students' subsequent levels of success in standard courses.
Using diagnostic measures of academic ability for effective remediation
COMPASS uses revolutionary computer-adaptive testing technology to identify students' specific academic strengths and weaknesses.
The individualized information this instrument provides leads to an in-depth, diagnostic understanding of each student's academic skills, allowing you to address identified needs in the most effective way.