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KeyTrain Implementation: Preparing Students for Accuplacer Exams

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.

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KeyTrain Implementation: Preparing Students for Accuplacer Exams

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  1. KeyTrain Implementation: Preparing Students for Accuplacer Exams Professional Day, Manchester Community College, October 16, 2009

  2. Presentation Overview • Background • Implementation process • Activity levels • Lessons learned

  3. 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.

  4. 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.)

  5. In New Student Workshops:ACCUPLACER PLACEMENT TEST Top Five things you need to know: • It’s Free. • It’s mainly multiple choice, taken on a computer. • It’s not timed. • You can’t fail. • You can prepare for it.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. KeyTrain Activity: First Semester Math Activity Overview Total: 306 Students Hours Logged: 885/2.9av. Reading Activity Overview Total: 270 Students Hours Logged: 402/1.5av.

  10. Applied Math Activity

  11. Reading for Information Activity

  12. Math Pretest Score Correlations

  13. Reading Pretest Score Correlations

  14. 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!

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