The purpose of this paper is to describe ACT’s EPAS® (Educational Planning and Assessment System), and some of the ways it can be used to measure student and school growth.
1. EPAS 2. EPAS Content across Assessments 3. ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks 4. EPAS Scales 5. General Issues in Vertical Scaling 6. Equating 7. Accountability Measures Using EPAS 8. Status Measure: Percentages of 10th-Grade Students on Target to Be Ready for College-Level Work by High School Graduation 9. Improvement Measure: Predicted Percentages of future 10th-Grade Students on Target to Be Ready for College-Level Work by High School Graduation 10. Growth Measure: Percentages of 12th-Grade Students Expected to Be Ready for College-Level Work by High School Graduation, Based on Their Performance in Grades 8 and 10 11. Value-Added Measure: School Contribution to Student ACT Score 12. What Is Reasonable Growth in High School? 13. Summary
