keytrain implementation: preparing students for accuplacer exams
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KeyTrain Implementation:
Preparing Students for Accuplacer Exams
Professional Day, Manchester Community College, October 16, 2009
Presentation Overview
Background
Implementation process
Activity levels
Lessons learned
Helping Students Prepare for Accuplacer Exams and College
Admissions, Retention, and Counseling implemented the use of KeyTrain as a pre-Accuplacer tutorial last semester.
To launch KeyTrain, we introduced it at New Student Workshops and asked students for their interest in using KeyTrain.
More than 950 students requested access to KeyTrain.
The Objectives of KeyTrain
To heighten student awareness of the impact of the Accuplacer exams.
To assess student readiness in math, English.
To increase familiarity and comfort with testing.
To provide students with test-prep in math and English before taking Accuplacer.
(We all know students realize the significance of their scores – after the fact – when they learn of placements into MAT 075/095 or ENG 094/100.)
In New Student Workshops:
ACCUPLACER PLACEMENT TEST
Top Five things you need to know:1. It’s Free.2. It’s mainly multiple choice, taken
on a computer.3. It’s not timed.4. You can’t fail.5. You can prepare for it.
In New Student Workshops:
KEY TRAIN: Maximize your TRCC Placement Test Score
Free, self-paced, online assessment and tutorials for Math & Reading.
Spend as little or as much time as you want doing tutorials.
You get out of it what you put into it.
No risk, nothing to lose.
KeyTrain is a free license
KeyTrain is provided to the college through an allied health community college grant administered through central administration.
We have a total of three free years and unlimited student access.
Activity in the First Semester
956 students received accounts. 422 Math Pretests taken. 297 Reading Pretests taken. 158 section quizzes attempted in math;
82 were passed. 159 section quizzes attempted in
reading; 50 were passed.
KeyTrain Activity: First Semester
Math Pretest
# attempts 422
Average score 4.2
Math Activity Overview
Total: 306 StudentsHours Logged: 885/2.9av.
Reading Pretest
# attempts 297
Average score 4.2
Reading Activity Overview
Total: 270 StudentsHours Logged: 402/1.5av.
Applied Math ActivityLesson #
Attempted# Passed
Pretest 422
Level 1 4 4
Level 2 2 2
Level 3 26 15
Level 4 55 31
Level 5 40 16
Level 6 15 7
Level 7 16 7
Total 580/158 82/52%
Reading for Information Activity
Lesson # Attempted
# Passed
Pretest 297
Level 1 2 2
Level 2 7 7
Level 3 11 9
Level 4 20 10
Level 5 69 13
Level 6 31 5
Level 7 19 4
Total 456/159 50/31%
Math Pretest Score CorrelationsNumber of students sampled
KeyTrain score
Average Accuplacer score
Course placement
2 2 34 075 – 2
9 3 29 075 – 9
21 4 44 075 – 11095 – 10
10 5 49 075 – 3095 – 7
11 6 59 075 – 3095 – 4137 – 4
6 7 76 075 – 1095 – 1137 – 3186 – 1
Reading Pretest Score CorrelationsNumber of students sampled
KeyTrain score
Average Accuplacer score
Course placement
5 2 R – 57 S – 71
094 – 4100 – 1
4 3 R – 62 S – 62
094 – 4
10 4 R – 66 S – 82
094 – 5100 – 4101 – 1
12 5 R – 81 S – 91
094 – 1100 – 7101 – 4
7 6 R – 91 S–101
100 – 3101 – 4
11 7 R – 95 S – 97
094 – 1100 – 1101 – 9
What We Learned
Sampled ±20% of completed scores.
There is a correlation between KeyTrain scores and Accuplacer scores.
That correlation is not precise; but allows some predictive basis.
Students are motivated to prepare.
If we build it, they will come!