From cbrown at osrhe.edu Mon Nov 10 14:32:06 2003 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:25:21 2004 Subject: [Okepas] A quick note . . . Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C49291247002@ms.osrhe.edu> By this time you should have completed your EXPLORE and PLAN testing and mailed your testing materials back to ACT. If this is not true for your site, you should contact me immediately so that we can work out a plan for getting your materials approved for scoring by ACT. Many of you have already received your assessment results and are moving into the phase of sharing those results with students, parents and teachers. Please remember assessment is of no value if the results are not used to help students plan for their future and help educators improve teaching and learning. As most of you know, we are available to assist you in working with your assessment results to maximize the efforts of administrators, counselors and teachers. On another note, school counselors might find this ACT webpage helpful, http://www.act.org/path/secondary/planner/oct.html Please let us know how we can be of assistance to you, Cindy Cynthia N. Brown, Ed.D. Senior Coordinator for Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 Voice - 405-225-9156 Fax - 405-225-9230 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20031110/92a5f0c2/attachment.htm From cbrown at osrhe.edu Tue Nov 18 16:20:41 2003 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:25:21 2004 Subject: [Okepas] AP research study Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C49291247094@ms.osrhe.edu> EPAS friends; With the exciting increase in Advanced Placement courses and student participation in Oklahoma, the State Regents want to conduct an important research study and we hope you can assist us. Obviously, many students are taking AP classes and exams and are earning college credit through their exam score. We know that many students take AP classes but do not take the AP exam. We also know that many students take the AP exam but do not score high enough for college credit. And, of course, we know that many high school students take concurrent enrollment classes while in high school. Because of this variety of high school experiences, we are interested in learning several things about Oklahoma students' high school academic experiences and their later collegiate success. In other words, we want to compare the collegiate success of students who: 1. Take an AP class 2. Take an AP exam 3. Do concurrent enrollment We will get the data for #2 from College Board and #3 along with the collegiate success information from our higher education data system. But we need your help on #1. To compare students to our data files, we need social security numbers and names or date of birth on each student and of course, title of AP course taken. Graduation year would be helpful but not necessary. If you have information relative to students in past years that have taken an AP class AND if you are willing to share that data with us for this study, please send a note back to me. In your note, please tell me how many years back you would be able to go with your class lists or transcript data, how many students might be included in your data AND what format it is available in. Of course we will treat student data in a confidential manner consistent with all state, federal and ethical requirements. We will send a formal request to whoever should be formally asked when I know if you have data available. Please tell me in your note to whom the formal request should be addressed. We believe this is an important piece in the puzzle of student preparation for college or other post-high school choices. We will, of course, share our study results with you. Thanks, Cindy Cynthia N. Brown, Ed.D. Senior Coordinator for Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 Voice - 405-225-9156 Fax - 405-225-9230 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20031118/29ab1dd3/attachment.htm