CCR Data and Transparency Quiz

Correct! In the transparency reports, Achieve looked at not only whether a state reported data at all, but also whether that data was broken down by student subgroups, released in a timely manner, and reported in a way that counts all students.

That’s right. For the full details on this and other criteria Achieve used to award points in the transparency reports, please see the transparency report methodology.

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.

Eight states – Arizona, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – don’t report any data on college remediation. See Achieve’s full set of transparency reports here.

Not quite. California, Louisiana, and New Hampshire only report data for one of the three postsecondary indicators, but Pennsylvania doesn’t report any. See full transparency reports here.

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. 

Not quite. Minnesota earned the highest transparency score, with 26.25 points out of a possible 32. See the details in their transparency report 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.