States are collecting and reporting on a wide range of college and career readiness measures. A new brief and interactive map from the Center on College and Career Readiness and Success Center provides information on states’ college and career readiness definitions, reported metrics, and programs such as career and technical education and dual enrollment. Links to additional information and resources for each state related to college and career readiness also are included.
It is interesting to see the wide variety of measures that various states employ to track student success, some during high school and some even in years after high school. For example, Wisconsin stands out for how it keeps track of student extracurricular activities in the areas of academics, music, and athletics.
The CCRS Center makes recommendations on what states can be doing to measure students’ college and career readiness and identifies state metrics that may correlate to or predict college and career readiness in the following four areas:
- academic content
- pathway knowledge
- lifelong learning skills
- postsecondary outcomes
Top recommendations are listed below:
- Data should be easily accessible
- Data should be easily understandable
- States should increase public reporting of existing data
- States should expand the breadth of data reporting
- States should increase the depth of reporting on existing measures
- States should pursue the identification and collection of better measures
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ccrscenter.org/sites/default/files/AskCCRS_Metrics.pdf
and
http://www.ccrscenter.org/ccrs-landscape/state-profile
