Promoting Student Success in Early College Credit Courses
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
ThinkReady (formerly C-PAS, CPAS) is an innovative assessment designed to track the development of Key Cognitive Strategies (KCS), which are the thinking skills necessary for college and career readiness and success. Through extensive research over more than a decade, Dr. David T. Conley, founder of the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC), identified the KCS necessary for success in college or a career: Problem Formulation, Research, Interpretation, Communication, Precision/Accuracy, ThinkReady measures the KCS through performance tasks that teachers conduct within existing lesson plans and that align with their curricular requirements. ThinkReady guides and informs a school’s efforts to prepare students for success after high school graduation. The information generated measures student development of the KCS over time from grades 6–12 and helps all students develop important thinking skills, regardless of current academic skill level. The goal is to have an assessment system that schools, districts, and states can use to ensure that students have the thinking skills to be successful after they graduate from high school.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Problem Solving ; Research ; Interpretation ; Reasoning ; Precision
Respondent
Teacher,
Other
Administration Information
Length
N/A
Access and Use
Developer
D. Conley
Setting
Classroom,
College
