Use PowerPoint deck to share with your staff details about: Understanding PreACT Getting Ready

1. Administrator PowerPoint Getting Ready for PreACT • Use PowerPoint deck to share with your staff details about: • Understanding PreACT • Getting Ready

3. Agenda • Understanding PreACT • Getting Ready

4. Understanding the PreACT PreACT Overview

5. Product Overview Taking the PreACT is the first actionable step a student will take to practice for The ACT test.

6. PreACT Overview • 10th grade multiple choice paper assessment • Provides actionable insights for students, parents, and educators • Shorter in length than the ACT • Flexible test administration dates • Rapid reporting means earlier and more effective intervention and planning

7. PreACT Overview - Reporting • PreACT scores and predicted ACT score ranges for composite and subject test on ACT 1-36 scale • PreACT reporting category scores • Student’s college and career planning results, including their results on Interest-Career Fit • STEM and text complexity scores • Student level item response and correct answers

8. PreACT Key Benefits for Students • Early practice for taking the ACT test • Provides PreACT score and predicted ACT score ranges on the ACT 1-36 scale • Students may opt to share their information with colleges and scholarship agencies • Results of the ACT Interest Inventory provides students a personalized view of interests with college and career alignment

9. PreACT Key Benefits for Parents • Understand student’s potential performance on the ACT • Understand general academic strengths and weaknesses as well as specific areas of need for academic intervention • Understand if student’s interests and career goals are aligned with their academic performance • Assist in early post-secondary planning and career investigation • Helps inform conversations about academic, interests, college, and career choices

10. PreACT Key Benefits for Educators • Flexible administration (Sept 1-June1) • Provides Technical Guides for curriculum planning • Provides a snapshot of how students are performing across academic standards • Reporting categories provides insights to inform classroom and educator intervention • Enables counselors to have college and career planning conversations • Quick access to individual student data and patterns of performance

11. Educators and Proctors Getting Ready for PreACT Ordering and Administering PreACT

12. Steps for Preparing Getting Ready for PreACT • Plan test date and order materials • Attend webinar training • Receive implementation plan and materials • Talk to staff about testing • Administer test • Return materials for scoring • Receive and analyze reports

13. For Districts and Schools – access the act.org/preact website to order materials Order Online

14. Confirm and Receive your Email with Implementation Plan Getting Ready for the PreACT

15. Other Resources Available Getting Ready for PreACT • Customer implementation plan including: • At-A-Glance with timelines • Educator PowerPoint to share with staff • Webinar for implementing offered monthly • Test Administration Manual • Interpreting Reports Guide

16. At A Glance Getting Ready for the PreACT

17. Questions and Answers