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Assess andstrengthen

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ENGAGE

Assess and strengthen academic behaviorto improve graduation rates

Improve the prediction ofacademic success and persistence

A students future success isnt guaranteed by knowledge and skill alone. ACT

research confirms that measuring a combination of academic achievement and

behavioral characteristics from middle school to college is the best predictor of

academic success and persistence.

ENGAGETM, ACTs academic behavior assessment, measures characteristics

such as motivation, self-regulation, and social engagement.

ENGAGE and ENGAGE Teacher Edition help you improve graduation rates

when you:

Evaluate your students self-reported psychosocial

attributes and determine how to use this

information to improve their academic

achievement.

Discover their levels of academic risk. Identify

students who are at risk for dropping out or

experiencing academic difficulties.

Identify interventions to help them persist in their

studies and achieve academic success.

Strengthen academic behavior that

leads to academic successfor

students from middle school to

college age.

Monitor and track academic

behavior development.

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The ENGAGE assessmentsENGAGE Grades 69 I ENGAGE Grades 1012ENGAGE College I ENGAGE Teacher Edition

ENGAGE is a simple and cost-effective tool for educators at all levels,

grades 6 to college, to improve graduation rates and directly reach students

whose personal challenges go unreported in standardized academic tests.

It is a low-stakes assessment that is easy for schools to administer. Students only

need about 30 minutes to answer a series of simple questions about themselves.

ENGAGE student-level reports help educators

design interventions for individual students, while

aggregate reports identify what changes may be

appropriate at a school or system level.

Early intervention may focus on study skills, social

activity, academic self-confidence, or any

combination of the ten scales ENGAGE measures.

ENGAGE Teacher Edition enables teachers and counselors to provide their

perspective for each student assessed by ENGAGE Grades 69 or ENGAGE

Grades 1012.

Research is the foundation forENGAGE

ACT has tested thousands of students using ENGAGE Grades 69 and trackedthese students progress as they moved through middle school and into college.

Results show that when ENGAGE is administered during middle school, it is a

valid predictor of high school grades, high school graduation, and college

enrollment.

ENGAGE is designed to help

postsecondary institutions identify

and intervene with students who are

at risk of poor academic

performance or dropping out.

ACT tested more than 14,000

students at 48 postsecondary

institutions using ENGAGE College

and tracked these students through

their college careers.

The ENGAGE series of academic

behavior assessments helps educators

enhance student success from middle

school to college.

CASESTUDY The University of North Texas

used ENGAGE to improveretention. They had a 3%

increase in retention, whichrepresented about 105students at $5,662.80 inannual tuition. This resultedin retaining $594,594 a yearin tuition.


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ENGAGE Grades 69ENGAGE Grades 69 provides you with an early warning indicator of academic

risk when students get to high school and helps predict academic performance

and timely graduation. It creates a profile of a students strengths and needs and

captures students perceptions of themselves, their families commitment toeducation, school safety climate, school-related factors, optimism, and important

behavioral indicators.

Even after taking into account previous grades and academic readiness

assessment scores, ENGAGE provides you with additional information that helps

more accurately identify students who are at risk of poor grades and academic

failure. When combined with the academic readiness information from

EXPLORE, ACTs assessment for 8th and 9th graders, youll have a more

complete view of a students potential.

ENGAGE Grades 69 is a self-report inventory that has ten scales, with106 items written at a 4th-grade reading level, and takes just 30 minutes

to complete.

Scales for Grades 69

Domain Scale Name

Motivation Academic Discipline

Commitment to School

Optimism

Social Engagement Family Attitude toward Education

Family Involvement

Relationships with School Personnel

School Safety Climate

Self-Regulation Managing Feelings

Orderly Conduct

Thinking Before Acting


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ENGAGE Grades 1012This self-report inventory identifies your students behavioral strengths and

needs. It helps predict future college academic performance and retention.

You can use scores to identify interventions to help your students succeed in

their transition to postsecondary studies.

Students answers provide insight about their academic self-confidence, social

connection, goal striving, and seven other behavioral scales. It captures

students perceptions of their own motivation, commitment to education, and

other key predictors of academic success and persistence.

ENGAGE Grades 1012 is a 30-minute assessment that has ten scales, with 108

items written at a 6th-grade reading level.

Scales for Grades 1012Domain Scale Name


Commitment to College

Communication Skills

General Determination

Goal Striving

Study Skills

Social Engagement Social Activity

Social Connection

Self-Regulation Academic Self-Confidence

Steadiness


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ENGAGE CollegeENGAGE measures students' behaviors and psychosocial attributes, which are

critical but often overlooked components of their success as they enter college. It

identifies students who are most at risk of running into academic difficulty or even

dropping out during their first year.

ENGAGE College (formerly the Student Readiness Inventory or SRI) is an

extremely powerful and cost-effective way for colleges to improve their first-year

retention rates and directly reach students whose personal challenges go

unreported in standardized academic tests.

ENGAGE can predictwith a remarkable degree of accuracyhow likely each

of your incoming first-year students is to return for a second year, and whether he

or she will earn at least a 2.0 GPA.

ENGAGE is easy for colleges to administer and requires minimal advance

planning. It will effortlessly fit into any orientation program. In just 30 minutes,

without the pressure of a high-stakes assessment, students answer 108 simple

questions about themselves.

ENGAGE measures students psychosocial and study skill attributes using these

ten scales:

Scales for College

Domain Scale Name


Commitment to College

Communication Skills

General Determination

Goal Striving

Study Skills

Social Engagement Social Activity

Social Connection

Self-Regulation Academic Self-Confidence

Steadiness


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ENGAGETeacher EditionENGAGE Teacher Edition allows teachers and counselors to provide their

perspective regarding their students level of motivation, social engagement,

and self-regulation.

When used in combination, ENGAGE and ENGAGE Teacher Edition

cost-effectively provide a complete view of the academic behaviors that impact

students. Results from ENGAGE enable educators to intervene, help more

students succeed, and improve graduation rates.

ENGAGE Teacher Edition is available for two levels of students: Grades 6-9 and

Grades 10-12.

Each grade level of ENGAGE Teacher Edition includes the same domains

measured by the student version of ENGAGE. Teachers complete ten simple

rating scales regarding each student they assess.

Scales for Teacher Edition

Domain Scale Name

Motivation Initiative

Planning and Organizing

Sustained Effort

Performance

Social Engagement Communication

Working with Others

Self-Regulation Managing Feelings

Orderly Conduct

ENGAGEAdministration

ENGAGE requires minimal commitment of your time and financial resources. Youpay only for completed surveys (test materials are free), and students can answer

the questions in just 30 minutes.

You administer ENGAGE online. Your ENGAGE reports are also available online

and can be easily configured by assessment date range and student

demographic information. You can seamlessly manage all of your ENGAGE

reports and data in our easy-to-use online system.


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ENGAGE Reports

The Student Report features a students summary profile of ENGAGE scale

scores and information on how to understand the scores.

TheAdvisor Report includes the Student Report information, plus the ENGAGE

indicespredictive scores you can use to identify students who may be at risk

of academic difficulties or dropping out.

The Roster Report is an Excel-ready file that contains students names, IDs,

demographics, ENGAGE percentile scores, the ENGAGE indices, and flags

for scoring issues.The Roster Report gives you a quick overview of student

results that is easy to scan, sort, and searchand its ready to import into your

student information system.

TheAggregate Report includes all surveys administered by a school or district

during the semester and features aggregate summaries at the school anddistrict levels. These reports can be used to identify where school- or district-

wide resources or interventions may be needed.

Individual ENGAGE reports include a students summary profile of scores

(expressed as both scale scores and percentile scores) and information on how

to understand them. The report provides interpretive feedback for each ENGAGE

scale. The scores are sorted into categories that help to emphasize the

developmental aspect of the feedback:

Capitalize on Your Strengths, which includes high scores.

Continue to Develop Your Skills, which includes moderate scores.

Make Plans for Improvement, which includes low scores.

Recommended Plan of Action, which offers suggestions

for improvement.

This section

explains how

a student

can makeimprovements

on low scores.

This sectionexplains a

students high

scores.


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About ENGAGE and

ACTs College and Career Readiness Solutions

ENGAGE, which measures behaviors and psychosocial attributes, is one of ACTs solutions to

help you better prepare your students for college and career.

When ENGAGE is combined with scores and results from ACTs curriculum-based college and

career readiness solutions, educators and parents have a complete view of a students

abilities, as well as guidance for interventions that enable each student to reach his or her full

potential.

ACTs College and Career Readiness Solutions

The ACT College and Career Readiness series of assessments starts in the 8th grade with

EXPLORE, followed by PLAN in the 10th grade, and the ACT for high school juniors or

seniors. ENGAGE completes the picture of a students academic potential with a profile of his

or her behavioral attributes.

EXPLORE, PLAN, and the ACT are curriculum-based, linked, longitudinal, and aligned with the

Common Core Standards and form a foundation that prepares a student for higher education

and a career.

Curriculum-Based Assessments

EXPLORE measures the academic strengths and weaknesses of 8th or

9th graders early in their educational development, when educators have

the greatest opportunity to establish a four-year program to help students

achieve their career and educational goals. www.act.org/explore

Designed for 10th graders, PLAN serves as the midpoint measure of

academic progress. PLAN provides students with an early indication of

how their educational progress relates to their posthigh school educational

and career plans and helps students make adjustments. www.act.org/plan

For high school juniors or seniors, the ACT is more than just a college

entrance exam. It is a curriculum-based educational and career planningtool that assesses a students mastery of state and college readiness

standards. www.act.org

Measuring Behavioral and Psychosocial Attributes

When the three ACT curriculum-based assessments are combined with

ENGAGE, educators and parents have a holistic view of a students

abilities, as well as guidance for interventions that enable a student to

reach his or her full potential. www.act.org/engage

EXPLORE

8th and 9th

Grade

PLAN

10th

Grade

The ACT11th or 12th

Grade

ENGAGE

Grades 6

through College


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High School Curriculum Improvement-Adding Rigor

QualityCore

is the high school instructional improvement component ofACTs College and Career Readiness solutions. QualityCore contains a

series of linked and longitudinal assessments and instructional improvement

programs that improve rigor and prepare students for success in college

and beyond. www.act.org/qualitycore

School or District-wide Improvement Program

Core Practice Audit is an objective evaluation of your district-level

practices correlated to teaching and learning. The hands-on audit

compares the practices of your district to those of higher performing

districts and provides a map to align your practices to those of high

performing districts. www.act.org/k12

CoreWork Diagnostics is an online, research-based program that

empowers district and school leaders to self-assess and benchmark their

teaching and learning practices against those of higher performing school

systems in order to raise student achievement to the level of college and

career readiness. www.act.org/k12

Research Supported Solutions

ACT is the only organization with more than five decades of research data underpinning

college and career readinessshowing exactly what happens to high school graduates once

they get to college or to work and how they can maximize success, based on their preparation

from kindergarten through high school.

This research supported the development of the ACT College and Career Readiness solutions

that are designed to help educators and students:

Measure what they know

Identify what they need to learn

Plan for college and career

ACT research shows that students who take all three ACT College and Career Readiness

assessmentsEXPLORE, PLAN, and the ACTare more likely to be ready for college than

those who do not participate. The curriculum-based assessments measure students

knowledge, detect what they still need to learn, and help students and educators develop a

plan to prepare students for college and career.

The research further explains that students who participate in both EXPLORE and PLAN

programs increase their odds of meeting the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks by

anywhere from 24 to 44 percent. Find out more about the Benchmarks at

www.act.org/research/policymakers.

QualityCore

CorePracticeAudit

CoreWorkDiagnostics

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achievement and psychosocial characteristics is the

best predictor of academic success and persistence.

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