Thursday, August 12, 2010
ACT Scores Show Improvement
KENTUCKY....
The state Department of Education released overall results Thursday from the ACT, which more than 44,000 Kentucky public school juniors took last spring. Results show juniors in Kentucky's public high schools continue to improve their ACT scores, and more of them are ready to tackle college-level work, but there's plenty of room for improvement. Thursday's results show that 49 percent of Kentucky juniors are ready for college-level work in English composition and the percentage ready for college math rose from 21 percent in 2009 to 22 percent in 2010. The percentage prepared for college social science rose from 30 percent in 2009 to 35 percent for 2010. And in biology, the percentage of juniors deemed ready for college work fell from 16 percent in 2009 to 15 percent for 2010. According to education officials, benchmark subject scores on the ACT translate to a 75 percent chance that a student will get a C or higher grade on corresponding credit-bearing college courses.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:27 PM 
