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Assess and strengthen academic behavior

Learn more about ENGAGE by visiting www.act.org/engage or ing your local ACT regional office. West Region

Midwest Region

Northeast Region

(AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, WA)

(IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI, WV)

(CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT)

Sacramento Office 916.631.9200 [email protected]

Chicago Office 847.634.2560 [email protected]

Boston Office 508.229.0111 [email protected]

Lansing Office 517.327.5919 [email protected]

Southeast Region

Columbus Office 614.470.9828 [email protected]

Atlanta Office 404.231.1952 [email protected]

Mountain/Plains Region (CO, KS, MT, ND, NE, SD, UT, WY)

Denver Office 303.337.3273 [email protected]

Southwest Region (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX)

Austin Office 512.320.1850 [email protected]

ACT National Office 500 ACT Drive Iowa City, Iowa 52243-0168 319.337.1000

(AL, DC, DE, FL, GA, KY, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA)

Tallahassee Office 850.878.2729 [email protected]

Washington, DC, Office Washington, DC 202.223.2318

ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides a broad array of assessment, research, information, and program management solutions in the areas of education and workforce development. Each year, ACT serves millions of people in high schools, colleges, professional associations, businesses, and government agencies— nationally and internationally. ACT has offices across the United States and throughout the world.

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Research confirms that measuring both academic achievement and psychosocial characteristics is the best predictor of academic success and persistence.

ENGAGE

ENGAGE Assess and strengthen academic behavior to improve graduation rates Improve the prediction of academic success and persistence A student’s future success isn’t guaranteed by knowledge and skill alone. ACT research confirms that measuring a combination of academic achievement and behavioral characteristics from middle school to college is the best predictor of academic success and persistence. ENGAGETM, ACT’s academic behavior assessment, measures characteristics such as motivation, self-regulation, and social engagement. ENGAGE and ENGAGE Teacher Edition help you improve graduation rates when you: • Evaluate your students’ self-reported psychosocial attributes and determine how to use this information to improve their academic achievement. • Discover their levels of academic risk. Identify students who are at risk for dropping out or experiencing academic difficulties. • Identify interventions to help them persist in their studies and achieve academic success. • Strengthen academic behavior that leads to academic success—for students from middle school to college age. • Monitor and track academic behavior development.

High School Curriculum Improvement-Adding Rigor

QualityCore

QualityCore® is the high school instructional improvement component of ACT’s College and Career Readiness solutions. QualityCore contains a series of linked and longitudinal assessments and instructional improvement programs that improve rigor and prepare students for success in college and beyond. www.act.org/qualitycore

School or District-wide Improvement Program Core Practice Audit

CoreWork Diagnostics

Core Practice Audit is an objective evaluation of your district-level practices correlated to teaching and learning. The hands-on audit compares the practices of your district to those of higher performing districts and provides a map to align your practices to those of high performing districts. www.act.org/k12 CoreWork® Diagnostics is an online, research-based program that empowers district and school leaders to self-assess and benchmark their teaching and learning practices against those of higher performing school systems in order to raise student achievement to the level of college and career readiness. www.act.org/k12

Research ed Solutions ACT is the only organization with more than five decades of research data underpinning college and career readiness—showing exactly what happens to high school graduates once they get to college or to work and how they can maximize success, based on their preparation from kindergarten through high school. This research ed the development of the ACT College and Career Readiness solutions that are designed to help educators and students: • Measure what they know • Identify what they need to learn • Plan for college and career ACT research shows that students who take all three ACT College and Career Readiness assessments—EXPLORE, PLAN, and the ACT—are more likely to be ready for college than those who do not participate. The curriculum-based assessments measure students’ knowledge, detect what they still need to learn, and help students and educators develop a plan to prepare students for college and career. The research further explains that students who participate in both EXPLORE and PLAN programs increase their odds of meeting the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks by anywhere from 24 to 44 percent. Find out more about the Benchmarks at www.act.org/research/policymakers.

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The ENGAGE assessments ENGAGE Grades 6–9 ENGAGE College

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ENGAGE Teacher Edition

ENGAGE is a simple and cost-effective tool for educators at all levels, grades 6 to college, to improve graduation rates and directly reach students whose personal challenges go unreported in standardized academic tests. It is a low-stakes assessment that is easy for schools to ister. Students only need about 30 minutes to answer a series of simple questions about themselves. The ENGAGE series of academic behavior assessments helps educators enhance student success from middle school to college.

ENGAGE student-level reports help educators design interventions for individual students, while aggregate reports identify what changes may be appropriate at a school or system level.

Early intervention may focus on study skills, social activity, academic self-confidence, or any combination of the ten scales ENGAGE measures. ENGAGE Teacher Edition enables teachers and counselors to provide their perspective for each student assessed by ENGAGE Grades 6–9 or ENGAGE Grades 10–12.

Research is the foundation for ENGAGE

ENGAGE is designed to help postsecondary institutions identify and intervene with students who are at risk of poor academic performance or dropping out. ACT tested more than 14,000 students at 48 postsecondary institutions using ENGAGE College and tracked these students through their college careers.

CASE STUDY

ACT has tested thousands of students using ENGAGE Grades 6–9 and tracked these students’ progress as they moved through middle school and into college. Results show that when ENGAGE is istered during middle school, it is a valid predictor of high school grades, high school graduation, and college enrollment.

The University of North Texas used ENGAGE to improve retention. They had a 3% increase in retention, which represented about 105 students at $5,662.80 in annual tuition. This resulted in retaining $594,594 a year in tuition.

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ENGAGE Grades 6–9 ENGAGE Grades 6–9 provides you with an early warning indicator of academic risk when students get to high school and helps predict academic performance and timely graduation. It creates a profile of a student’s strengths and needs and captures students’ perceptions of themselves, their families’ commitment to education, school safety climate, school-related factors, optimism, and important behavioral indicators. Even after taking into previous grades and academic readiness assessment scores, ENGAGE provides you with additional information that helps more accurately identify students who are at risk of poor grades and academic failure. When combined with the academic readiness information from EXPLORE®, ACT’s assessment for 8th and 9th graders, you’ll have a more complete view of a student’s potential. ENGAGE Grades 6–9 is a self-report inventory that has ten scales, with 106 items written at a 4th-grade reading level, and takes just 30 minutes to complete.

Scales for Grades 6–9

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Scale Name

Motivation

Academic Discipline Commitment to School Optimism

Social Engagement

Family Attitude toward Education Family Involvement Relationships with School Personnel School Safety Climate

Self-Regulation

Managing Feelings Orderly Conduct Thinking Before Acting

ENGAGE Grades 10 –12 This self-report inventory identifies your students’ behavioral strengths and needs. It helps predict future college academic performance and retention. You can use scores to identify interventions to help your students succeed in their transition to postsecondary studies. Students’ answers provide insight about their academic self-confidence, social connection, goal striving, and seven other behavioral scales. It captures students’ perceptions of their own motivation, commitment to education, and other key predictors of academic success and persistence. ENGAGE Grades 10–12 is a 30-minute assessment that has ten scales, with 108 items written at a 6th-grade reading level.

Scales for Grades 10–12 Domain

Scale Name

Motivation

Academic Discipline Commitment to College Communication Skills General Determination Goal Striving Study Skills

Social Engagement

Social Activity Social Connection

Self-Regulation

Academic Self-Confidence Steadiness

ENGAGE College ENGAGE measures students' behaviors and psychosocial attributes, which are critical but often overlooked components of their success as they enter college. It identifies students who are most at risk of running into academic difficulty or even dropping out during their first year. ENGAGE College (formerly the Student Readiness Inventory or SRI) is an extremely powerful and cost-effective way for colleges to improve their first-year retention rates and directly reach students whose personal challenges go unreported in standardized academic tests. ENGAGE can predict—with a remarkable degree of accuracy—how likely each of your incoming first-year students is to return for a second year, and whether he or she will earn at least a 2.0 GPA. ENGAGE is easy for colleges to ister and requires minimal advance planning. It will effortlessly fit into any orientation program. In just 30 minutes, without the pressure of a high-stakes assessment, students answer 108 simple questions about themselves. ENGAGE measures students’ psychosocial and study skill attributes using these ten scales:

Scales for College

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Domain

Scale Name

Motivation

Academic Discipline Commitment to College Communication Skills General Determination Goal Striving Study Skills

Social Engagement

Social Activity Social Connection

Self-Regulation

Academic Self-Confidence Steadiness

ENGAGE Teacher Edition ENGAGE Teacher Edition allows teachers and counselors to provide their perspective regarding their students’ level of motivation, social engagement, and self-regulation. When used in combination, ENGAGE and ENGAGE Teacher Edition cost-effectively provide a complete view of the academic behaviors that impact students. Results from ENGAGE enable educators to intervene, help more students succeed, and improve graduation rates. ENGAGE Teacher Edition is available for two levels of students: Grades 6-9 and Grades 10-12. Each grade level of ENGAGE Teacher Edition includes the same domains measured by the student version of ENGAGE. Teachers complete ten simple rating scales regarding each student they assess.

Scales for Teacher Edition Domain

Scale Name

Motivation

Initiative Planning and Organizing Sustained Effort Performance

Social Engagement

Communication Working with Others

Self-Regulation

Managing Feelings Orderly Conduct

ENGAGE istration ENGAGE requires minimal commitment of your time and financial resources. You pay only for completed surveys (test materials are free), and students can answer the questions in just 30 minutes. You ister ENGAGE online. Your ENGAGE reports are also available online and can be easily configured by assessment date range and student demographic information. You can seamlessly manage all of your ENGAGE reports and data in our easy-to-use online system.

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ENGAGE Reports The Student Report features a student’s summary profile of ENGAGE scale scores and information on how to understand the scores. The Advisor Report includes the Student Report information, plus the ENGAGE indices—predictive scores you can use to identify students who may be at risk of academic difficulties or dropping out. The Roster Report is an Excel-ready file that contains students’ names, IDs, demographics, ENGAGE percentile scores, the ENGAGE indices, and flags for scoring issues.The Roster Report gives you a quick overview of student results that is easy to scan, sort, and search—and it’s ready to import into your student information system. The Aggregate Report includes all surveys istered by a school or district during the semester and features aggregate summaries at the school and district levels. These reports can be used to identify where school- or districtwide resources or interventions may be needed. Individual ENGAGE reports include a student’s summary profile of scores (expressed as both scale scores and percentile scores) and information on how to understand them. The report provides interpretive for each ENGAGE scale. The scores are sorted into categories that help to emphasize the developmental aspect of the : • • • •

Capitalize on Your Strengths, which includes high scores. Continue to Develop Your Skills, which includes moderate scores. Make Plans for Improvement, which includes low scores. Recommended Plan of Action, which offers suggestions for improvement.

This section explains a student’s high scores.

This section explains how a student can make improvements on low scores.

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The fourth section provides the student with final words of encouragement and advice.

About ENGAGE and ACT’s College and Career Readiness Solutions ENGAGE, which measures behaviors and psychosocial attributes, is one of ACT’s solutions to help you better prepare your students for college and career. When ENGAGE is combined with scores and results from ACT’s curriculum-based college and career readiness solutions, educators and parents have a complete view of a student’s abilities, as well as guidance for interventions that enable each student to reach his or her full potential.

ACT’s College and Career Readiness Solutions The ACT College and Career Readiness series of assessments starts in the 8th grade with EXPLORE, followed by PLAN® in the 10th grade, and the ACT® for high school juniors or seniors. ENGAGE completes the picture of a student’s academic potential with a profile of his or her behavioral attributes. EXPLORE, PLAN, and the ACT are curriculum-based, linked, longitudinal, and aligned with the Common Core Standards and form a foundation that prepares a student for higher education and a career.

Curriculum-Based Assessments EXPLORE 8th and 9th Grade

PLAN 10th Grade

The ACT 11th or 12th Grade

EXPLORE measures the academic strengths and weaknesses of 8th or 9th graders early in their educational development, when educators have the greatest opportunity to establish a four-year program to help students achieve their career and educational goals. www.act.org/explore Designed for 10th graders, PLAN serves as the midpoint measure of academic progress. PLAN provides students with an early indication of how their educational progress relates to their post–high school educational and career plans and helps students make adjustments. www.act.org/plan For high school juniors or seniors, the ACT is more than just a college entrance exam. It is a curriculum-based educational and career planning tool that assesses a student’s mastery of state and college readiness standards. www.act.org

Measuring Behavioral and Psychosocial Attributes ENGAGE Grades 6 through College

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When the three ACT curriculum-based assessments are combined with ENGAGE, educators and parents have a holistic view of a student’s abilities, as well as guidance for interventions that enable a student to reach his or her full potential. www.act.org/engage

ENGAGE

ENGAGE Assess and strengthen academic behavior to improve graduation rates Improve the prediction of academic success and persistence A student’s future success isn’t guaranteed by knowledge and skill alone. ACT research confirms that measuring a combination of academic achievement and behavioral characteristics from middle school to college is the best predictor of academic success and persistence. ENGAGETM, ACT’s academic behavior assessment, measures characteristics such as motivation, self-regulation, and social engagement. ENGAGE and ENGAGE Teacher Edition help you improve graduation rates when you: • Evaluate your students’ self-reported psychosocial attributes and determine how to use this information to improve their academic achievement. • Discover their levels of academic risk. Identify students who are at risk for dropping out or experiencing academic difficulties. • Identify interventions to help them persist in their studies and achieve academic success. • Strengthen academic behavior that leads to academic success—for students from middle school to college age. • Monitor and track academic behavior development.

High School Curriculum Improvement-Adding Rigor

QualityCore

QualityCore® is the high school instructional improvement component of ACT’s College and Career Readiness solutions. QualityCore contains a series of linked and longitudinal assessments and instructional improvement programs that improve rigor and prepare students for success in college and beyond. www.act.org/qualitycore

School or District-wide Improvement Program Core Practice Audit

CoreWork Diagnostics

Core Practice Audit is an objective evaluation of your district-level practices correlated to teaching and learning. The hands-on audit compares the practices of your district to those of higher performing districts and provides a map to align your practices to those of high performing districts. www.act.org/k12 CoreWork® Diagnostics is an online, research-based program that empowers district and school leaders to self-assess and benchmark their teaching and learning practices against those of higher performing school systems in order to raise student achievement to the level of college and career readiness. www.act.org/k12

Research ed Solutions ACT is the only organization with more than five decades of research data underpinning college and career readiness—showing exactly what happens to high school graduates once they get to college or to work and how they can maximize success, based on their preparation from kindergarten through high school. This research ed the development of the ACT College and Career Readiness solutions that are designed to help educators and students: • Measure what they know • Identify what they need to learn • Plan for college and career ACT research shows that students who take all three ACT College and Career Readiness assessments—EXPLORE, PLAN, and the ACT—are more likely to be ready for college than those who do not participate. The curriculum-based assessments measure students’ knowledge, detect what they still need to learn, and help students and educators develop a plan to prepare students for college and career. The research further explains that students who participate in both EXPLORE and PLAN programs increase their odds of meeting the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks by anywhere from 24 to 44 percent. Find out more about the Benchmarks at www.act.org/research/policymakers.

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Research confirms that measuring both academic achievement and psychosocial characteristics is the best predictor of academic success and persistence.

Assess and strengthen academic behavior

Learn more about ENGAGE by visiting www.act.org/engage or ing your local ACT regional office. West Region

Midwest Region

Northeast Region

(AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, WA)

(IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI, WV)

(CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT)

Sacramento Office 916.631.9200 [email protected]

Chicago Office 847.634.2560 [email protected]

Boston Office 508.229.0111 [email protected]

Lansing Office 517.327.5919 [email protected]

Southeast Region

Columbus Office 614.470.9828 [email protected]

Atlanta Office 404.231.1952 [email protected]

Mountain/Plains Region (CO, KS, MT, ND, NE, SD, UT, WY)

Denver Office 303.337.3273 [email protected]

Southwest Region (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX)

Austin Office 512.320.1850 [email protected]

ACT National Office 500 ACT Drive Iowa City, Iowa 52243-0168 319.337.1000

(AL, DC, DE, FL, GA, KY, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA)

Tallahassee Office 850.878.2729 [email protected]

Washington, DC, Office Washington, DC 202.223.2318

ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides a broad array of assessment, research, information, and program management solutions in the areas of education and workforce development. Each year, ACT serves millions of people in high schools, colleges, professional associations, businesses, and government agencies— nationally and internationally. ACT has offices across the United States and throughout the world.

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