Using Your PLAN and EXPLORE

Results

College and Career Readiness Benchmarks

Predicting ACT Score

Selecting H.S. Courses (informed choice)

Using them for what?

1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36

ACT

PLAN

EXPLORE

Common Scale Score

1-25

1-32

1-36

Students would be expected to receive roughly the same score on Explore and Plan if they took both tests on the same day.

Each PLAN score is interpretable as the ACT test score that a student would be expected to achieve if that student had taken the ACT the same day as the PLAN test.

Your High School Course Plans Compared to Core

Core = MINIMUM number of courses recommended for college preparedness.

Your Scores

Assumes the student will continue to progress through their coursework.

EXPLORE has a similar predictor for the PLAN.

ACT Score Estimator

College ReadinessA prediction for success (B or better) in an entry level college course

Career InformationBased on a career interest inventory the students took before the test began.

One test is only so accurate at assessing knowledge gained.

- Daily Factors (diet, fatigue, motivation, outside stressors)

- Does not asses knowledge in other subject areas where students may excel (i.e. Social Studies, technological aptitude, interpersonal skills, etc…)

Keeping a perspective…

  English Math Reading Science

PLAN 50 40 25 30

EXPLORE 40 30 30 28

See inside of your results report

Hard work in school – “work smarter”

Take the appropriate coursework

Be at your best on test day

Ways to improve your score…

The Arrowhead Course Guide – (online) is starting to give EXPLORE and PLAN scores as “predictors of success” in certain courses

◦ English

◦ Social Studies

◦ Science

Course Selection

Schools are using data more and more

Everyone takes these tests

Assesses specific skills

Why???

English 10 Honors◦ EXPLORE: Reading - 23◦ Lexile: 1350

British Literature◦ PLAN: Reading – 23

AP English Literature◦ PLAN: Reading - 23◦ Lexile: 1350

English

AP European History◦ EXPLORE: Reading - 23◦ Lexile: 1350

AP US History◦ EXPLORE: Reading - 23◦ Lexile: 1350

Social Studies

Biology Honors:◦ EXPLORE: Science, Math, Reading -21

AP Biology: ◦ PLAN: Math and Science Average -23

Chemistry Honors:◦ PLAN: Science, Math, Reading -22◦ EXPLORE: Science, Math, Reading -21

AP Chemistry:◦ PLAN: Math and Science Average -23

AP Physics B1:◦ PLAN: Math and Science Average -23◦ EXPLORE: Science, Math, Reading -22

AP Physics:◦ PLAN: Math and Science Average -23

Science

Refer to the 2014-2015 Course Guide. (Can be found on the Arrowhead website under “district pubs and info”)

Contact your son/daughter’s counselor

A - G: Mr. Stuber (stuber@arrowheadschools.org)

H - O: Mrs. Whyte (whyte@arrowheadschools.org)

P – Z: Mr. Ward (ward@arrowheadschools.org)

Questions???