The College Board Standards for College Success

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The College Board Standards for College
Success
CCSSO SEC State Collaborative Alignment Study
CCSSO-SEC Meeting and Content Analysis
Workshop San Diego, CA February 11-14, 2008
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College Board Standards for College Success
Creating a pathway for rigorous teaching and
learning
Rigorous Standards leading to College
Readiness
ASSESSMENT
INSTRUCTION
CURRICULUM
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College Board Standards for College Success
Creating a pathway for rigorous teaching and
learning

• The College Board Standards were created with the
  goal of increasing the number and diversity of
  students who are prepared to succeed in college
  and 21st century careers.
• The College Board Standards define the vertical
  progression of knowledge and skills that students
  need, beginning in grade 6, to develop in English
  language arts and mathematics to be prepared for
  the SAT, AP, and college success.
• The College Board Standards organizational
  structure provides both focus and coherence while
  outlining specific performance expectations to
  enable teachers and districts to prioritize their
  instruction.

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College Board Standards for College Success
Creating a pathway for rigorous teaching and
learning

• The College Board Standards for College Success
• Provide a model set of standards to build
  rigorous middle school and high school courses
  that lead to college and workplace readiness.
• Provide teachers, districts, and states with
  tools for increasing the rigor and alignment of
  courses across grades 6-12 to college and
  workplace readiness.
• Assist teachers in designing lessons and
  classroom assessments by clearly articulating the
  content standards students must meet beginning in
  grade six to be ready for AP and college level
  work.

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College Board Standards for College Success
Creating a pathway for rigorous teaching and
learning

• Anchored in empirical research conducted by
  College Board and David Conley to define
  expectations of first-year college faculty and
  high school teachers.
• Mathematics standards are course specific.
• ELA standards define a developmental progression
  of knowledge and skills in reading, writing
  research, speaking, listening, and media literacy
  that should be addressed across the curriculum.
• Science standards are currently in development
  and will be released in 2009.

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College Board Standards for College Success
Design and Methodology

• How were the Standards designed, developed, and
  validated?
• Four year research and development effort
  engaging expert Standards Advisory Committees,
  which included college faculty, middle and high
  school teachers, curriculum and standards
  experts, and representatives from national
  professional organizations.
• The College Board conducted extensive reviews of
  empirical studies and existing exemplary state,
  national, and international standards frameworks.
• The committees identified the English language
  arts and mathematics and statistics knowledge and
  skills that college faculty expect of entering
  freshmen and that students need to be successful
  on the SAT, AP, and in first-year college
  courses.
• To develop the standards, the committees then
  mapped back from these college-level expectations
  to define a pathway of rigorous content knowledge
  and skills beginning in grade 6 leading to
  college readiness.

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College Board Standards for College Success
Design and Methodology
All of the following frameworks informed the
design of the standards and establish their
validity
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College Board Standards for College Success
A Resource for States

• The College Board Standards for College Success
  help states align their standards to definitions
  of college readiness.
• The College Board Standards help states
• Define the necessary exit-level knowledge and
  skills for college readiness.
• Determine if exit-level skills are articulated at
  the appropriate level of rigor.
• Articulate an appropriate vertical progression of
  skills that leads to college readiness exit-level
  benchmarks.
• Identify critical gaps or excessive repetitions
  in their content and skills progression.
• Structure and organize content in a clear and
  coherent fashion across a middle and high school
  curriculum.

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College Board Standards for College Success
A Resource to Districts

• Districts utilize the College Board Standards for
  College Success as they
• Develop a pathway to SAT, AP, and college success
  through curriculum alignment vertically aligning
  middle school and high school courses to state
  and College Board Standards.
• Better define student learning objectives and
  formative assessments for each course to ensure
  rigor and provide greater instructional guidance
  to teachers, students, principals, and parents.
• Develop learning schedules, or pacing guides,
  that
• Help facilitate structured, focused,
  standards-based learning in the classroom.
• Deepen teachers content knowledge.
• Help teachers both teach and assess student
  learning based on rigorous standards.

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College Board Standards for College Success
CCSSO SEC Collaborative Alignment Study

• The College Board is partnering with the Council
  of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the
  SEC Collaborative to code the College Board
  Standards into the SEC index so that
  participating state teams can use the data as an
  additional resource to your projects.
• This week, we will begin coding the Mathematics
  and ELA standards.
• College Board-CCSSO Leadership Summit We
  envision inviting state project leaders to a
  meeting of the minds at the College Board in
  New York to brainstorm and discuss ways the
  College Board alignment data can be infused into
  your ongoing projects.

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College Board Standards for College Success
Organizational Structure
The Standard and Objective levels provide an
overarching framework for each content
area. Using two organizing levels maintains
coherence and focus while providing sufficient
detail.
Standard Concise statement of content focus
Objective More detailed elaboration of content
and instructional focus
The performance expectation level defines
expected performance in measurable detail.
Performance Expectation Detailed performance
expectations that support targeted instruction
and assessment
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College Board Standards for College Success
Sample English Language Arts
The CBSCS are available to view and download at
http//www.collegeboard.com/about/association/acad
emic/standard.html
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Sample State Level Standards Alignment
Alignment of State Standards to College Board
Standards Reading
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Sample District Level Curriculum Alignment
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The College Board

• The College Boards mission is to connect
  students to college success and opportunity with
  a commitment to excellence and equity in
  education.
• The College Board is a not-for-profit membership
  association founded in 1900 and is composed of
  more than 5,300 schools, colleges, universities,
  and other educational organizations.
• Contact Information
• Natasha Groetsch
• Senior Director, College Board Standards
• The College Board
• Tel [phone]
• ngroetsch_at_collegeboard.org
• The CBSCS are available to view and download at
• http//professionals.collegeboard.com/k
  -12/system/standards