A guide to developing and evaluating a college readiness screener

Title:	A guide to developing and evaluating a college readiness screener
Description:	This guide describes core ideas for colleges to consider when developing a screening tool for estimating college readiness. A key focal point within the guide is a discussion of ways to improve how well a screening tool can identify individuals needing remedial or developmental education along with key considerations that a user or developer of such a tool must address. Specifically, the following steps are discussed: 1.Creating an operational definition of success and college readiness 2.Selecting potential predictors of college readiness 3.Prioritizing types of classification error 4.Collecting and organizing the necessary data 5.Developing predictive models 6.Evaluating the screening results and selecting the final model
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (314KB)
Cover Date:	September 2016
Web Release:	September 7, 2016
Print Release:	September 7, 2016
Publication #:	REL 2016169 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	REL
Associated Centers:	NCEE
Authors:	John Hughes and Yaacov Petscher: Florida State University
Type of Product:	Tools
Keywords:	College Preparation School Readiness • evaluation
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Tools, please contact: Amy Johnson.