Project Accomplishments

Student Attributes Joint Working Session, August 17, 2006

On August 17th, representatives from the English, Science and Math college readiness groups met to see if they could identify student attributes common to all three disciplines. It was a lively, professional and highly experienced group of educators. Linda Kosa-Postl, Jen Sorensen and John Traxler represented the Science Content Development Team. Bill Moore from the TMP project was present to co-lead the morning session.

The group began with a discussion of college readiness in general, with an emphasis on those attributes which are necessary for college readiness, versus a wish list. Another way to think about it was, “If a student does not possess this attribute, he/she will not do well in introductory college classes.” The main points of the discussion were pared down to a list of characteristics that the group agreed were important.

We then reviewed a worksheet which listed all the attributes written by the science, English and math college readiness development teams up to that point. Science attributes were in red, English were in blue, and math were in black text. The full group reviewed all the attributes, and added, deleted and edited them in order to come up with a set of student attributes which are common to all three disciplines.

The red attributes which were not included in the list of joint attributes became the science-only attributes in the definitions document, and the common (joint math, science, English) attributes are in black type.

NEXT STEPS

We have asked for input from a couple of external reviewers. Once we hear back from them, we’ll look at their feedback, and we’ll post the definitions on the online tool for your input.

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