Texas College Readiness Standards

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Texas College Readiness Standards

• High School Completion and Success Council
• January 25, 2008

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Very Brief Summary of Process

• Vertical Teams established in four foundation
  areas of the public school curriculum
  English/language arts, mathematics, science,
  social sciences
• Teams met four times in person
• Reviewed other sets of standards, both high
  school and college level
• Had homework assignments in between meetings
• Co-chairs had numerous conference calls

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Brief Summary of Process

• THECB held a public comment period from October
  25 December 10
• Received over 1,000 comments from primarily from
  community colleges and higher education faculty
• Approximately 30 of the comments came from
  public education personnel

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Agree/Disagree by Item by Subject Area
Average Percent Agree by Subject Area
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Organization of College Readiness Standards

• Standards are organized into four subject areas
  and a set of cross-disciplinary standards
• Each area presents knowledge and skill
  expectations hierarchically in order to reveal
  the structure of the area
• This is consistent with research on key skills
  for postsecondary success

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Example of the Standards

• II. Reading (Key Concept)
• A. Locate explicit textual information, and draw
  complex inferences, analyze, and evaluate the
  information within and across texts of varying
  lengths (Organizing Theme )
• 1. Compare and analyze how generic features are
  used across texts, (Performance Expectation )
• Analyze the use of persona in texts with diverse
  voices. (Performance Indicator )

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Performance Indicators

• PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ARE
• NOT MANDATED
• NOT A CHECKLIST
• EXAMPLES OF HOW STUDENTS CAN DEMONSTRATE
  COMPETENCY OF PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION.

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Performance Indicators

• THE MORE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS A STUDENT CAN
  ACCOMPLISH THE MORE PREPARED THEY WILL BE FOR
  POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER
  OPPORTUNITIES.

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Current Status

• Texas CRS were adopted by the THECB on January
  24, 2008
• Standards then go to the Commissioner of
  Education for review and approval
• SBOE infuses standards into four foundation areas
  of the curriculum over the next four years

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Next Steps

• Texas CRS will be used to determine the Texas
  Success Indicator (TSI) in 2012
• CRS will be used for End of Course examinations
  as they are developed (there is a separate
  component on each EOC that assesses college
  readiness)

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Suggestions Please!

• How might we engage public/higher education
  faculty and business community to assure
  implementation of standards?
• What groups do Council members believe would be
  critical to engage in discussion on standards?
• What do Council members believe next steps should
  include to assure implementation of standards at
  classroom level?