CCR Data and Transparency Quiz

It’s important for states to consider multiple indicators of college and career readiness to get the most complete picture of student readiness. That data also needs to be disaggregated and count all students. Using only an aggregate number could mask gaps between different groups of students. 

The average score was just above a 50% - 16.5 out of 32 possible points. See the full set of transparency reports here.

Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee all report college- and career-ready assessment results, but they don’t break the results down by student subgroups. See which states report data by subgroups here.

Correct. If a state has made data available from the two most recent graduating cohort years (2014-15 and 2015-16), they earned points for this category. Any data older than two years did not earn points for timeliness. Postsecondary indicators have a longer lag time in reporting and a different definition of timeliness. For the full details on this and other point-awarding criteria, see the transparency report methodology.

You’re right. Oklahoma is the only state that doesn’t publicly report their four-year graduation rate.

You’re right. Just Delaware and Nevada earned a perfect score in the category evaluating whether states report data for all eight indicators of student readiness. Check out their complete state reports here.

That’s right. The 9th grade cohort is the best denominator to use when calculating college and career readiness outcomes because it counts all students who entered 9th grade together. Making calculations about 12th graders or high school graduates, for example, doesn’t account for students who have dropped out or fallen behind earlier in high school, leading to inflated figures.

Minnesota and Massachusetts earned top marks in Achieve’s transparency reports for breaking their data down by student subgroups, earning scores of 7.25 and 7 out of 8 possible points, respectively. See how all states did here.