As part of an overall effort to assist recent high school graduates in being college-ready and to reduce remediation rates, the Miami Tech Prep Consortium (MVTPC) is launching a new initiative, the MVTPC College Readiness Tool-Kit. The MVTPC College Readiness Tool-Kit is designed to better inform our high school partners, parents and students what types of math, English and student success skills are necessary to met the foundational “college-ready” guidelines after high school. The goal of the web-based MVTPC College Readiness Tool-Kit is to help students develop learning activities and strategies which are proven to aid along the path to higher education or work.

As the state implements the OHIO CORE academics and moves from the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) to the ACT as part of the high school exit assessment, the need to reduce remediation in mathematics and English/Language Arts becomes even more critical and relevant. The state non-remediation standards have been embedded in our program of study templates for two years. Now we are beginning to create instructional components to help students reach those goals.

Also new this year for Tech Prep students is the American Education Corporation’s A+dvancer diagnostic test. This test is designed to help students, parents and teachers identify areas of strengths and weakness in reading, writing and various levels of mathematics prior to taking a college placement test. The questions on the A+dvancer are normed to the ACT, SAT and Accuplacer and backed by solid empirical research. The MVTPC College Readiness Tool-Kit will have resource links to Sinclair developmental coursework which have been aligned to the content areas covered in the A+dvancer topics which are: