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George Schlott ACT Client Relations Account Executive [email protected] ● 319/321-9698
Introduction
ACT currently serves 10M individuals through our assessment product continuum. While the relationship with the individual has been purely transactional to date, movement has begun to build from research and data towards personalized insights over time.
Personalized insights help to deliver:
• Increased self-awareness • Expanded view of opportunities • Improved decision-making • Education and career planning
roadmap
Introduction
Wandering Path
• Wandering without a goal or plan • Could benefit from developing a
personally relevant, meaningful goal and plan
Roadblock
• Has a goal, may not attain it, but isn’t considering other options
• Could be made aware of a broader range of personally relevant, meaningful options
Common Challenges
Career & Educational Planning - Critical Aspects
• Self-Knowledge – interests, abilities, and values
• Connecting your personal characteristics to educational and occupational options that better fit you
• Skills for finding and using relevant career and educational resources
• Taking appropriate actions to achieve goals
Individual Benefits • Persist in college • Remain in their major • Complete their college
degree in a timely manner
• Reduce likelihood to accumulate unneeded debt
Persistence in Major by ACT Score Range and Interest-Major Fit
All learners need to focus on good fit to ensure college and
career success.
College Success
94 percent of first-generation students aspire to earn a post-secondary degree…
First-generation students are less likely to select a planned
major that’s a good fit with their interests. Source 2013 report from ACT and COE: “The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2013: First-generation Students.”
Yet common challenges that face these students include:
• Lack of family educational capital
• Alienation from PSE environment
First-Generation Students
Free – Lowering barriers to access Social – Connecting the network of planning Mobile – Meeting people where they are Insight-Driven – personalized and based on research
ACT Profile is a social college and career planning tool built on more than 30 years of research, focusing on personalized experiences.
Delivering a meaningful experience
ACT Profile helps you start with who you
are, allowing you to see the critical aspects
of college and career planning that go
beyond a test score.
For Students
For Students
ACT Profile allows you to use the following to make smarter decisions about your future:
• Inventories
• Major & Career Maps
• Major, Career, & School Search
Why are personalized insights and starting with the individual important?
Improved decision making
Increased self-awareness
Expanded view of opportunities
Planned education & career map
ACT Profile Counselor Accounts allow counselors to better understand students’ progress in the college and career planning process. After connecting to students, counselors can see students’ insights and use them to begin conversations about the planning process.
For Counselors and Educators
• Identify interest areas • Spot potential challenges or
gaps in plans • Remind students to
complete critical tasks • Share relevant resources
and information
Counselor tools to
Current State
• Learner community – open beta • Focused on 13+ aged learners • Listening to learners and their unique needs • Developing insights based on interactions
• Educator/mentor community – open beta • Tools for counselors and mentors • Guides for implementation • Gathering initial feedback
• Individuals in all 50 states and international
Demo
www.actprofile.org www.actprofile.org/counselors/
1. Use Profile to provide guidance with students
2. Connect with your students to get aggregated dashboards and provide further guidance
3. Create groups for increased segmentation and focus
Getting Started
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Appendix
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Appendix – Major Map
• The ACT Major Map displays the locations of 153 college majors and programs of study
• The map is empirical and based on the measured interests of college students in the majors shown on the map
• All majors can be organized according to the interests of students for types of basic activities: data, ideas, people, and things activities
• These four basic activities serve as compass points and are shown on the outer edge of the map
• Of the 153 majors, 42 are based on data from 2-year institutions
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Appendix – Career Map
• Map based the Holland Occupational Themes (RIASEC)
• Theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types
• Developed by the psychologist John L. Holland
• Each letter or code stands for a particular "type": Realistic (Doers), Investigative (Thinkers), Artistic (Creators), Social (Helpers), Enterprising (Persuaders), and Conventional (Organizers)
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Appendix – Interest Inventory
• Contains 12 items for each of six scales—72 items total
• Uses a three-choice response format (dislike, indifferent, like)
• Untimed and usually takes about 10-14 minutes to complete
• Items emphasize work-relevant activities that are likely to be familiar to individuals, either through participation or observation
• Reliability and validity are backed by 130 million inventories delivered
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Appendix – Abilities Inventory
• 18-item instrument that measures informed self-estimates of abilities
• Each ability is accompanied by a definition and list of relevant experiences to consider
• Students rate themselves compared to same-age peers on a five-point scale ranging from High (top 10%) to Low (lowest 10%)
• The inventory contains a broad range of abilities, including those commonly assessed by tests (e.g., Mathematics) and not typically assessed by tests (e.g., Artistic)
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Appendix – Values Inventory
• 22-item instrument that measures work-relevant values
• Each value is accompanied by a definition
• Students choose one of four response options: Don’t Want, Not Important, Somewhat Important, and Very Important
• The inventory contains a broad set of work-relevant values related to work settings (e.g., Working Outside), work tasks (e.g., Helping Others), work preparation (e.g., Short Training Time), and work opportunities (e.g., Prestige)
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• ACT Client Relations Account Executive • [email protected] • 319/321-9698
George Schlott
Illinois ACT Client Relations Contacts:
• ACT Client Relations Account Executive • [email protected] • 319/321-9751
April Hansen Counties: McLean, Woodford
