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College and Career Readiness Webinars

 

About the Webinars

ACT offers webinars on various topics to help you learn how to use data to improve student performance and:

  • Evaluate learning successes and needed improvements
  • Improve curriculum and add rigor
  • Advise students and support interventions
  • Implement strategies and tactics to better prepare students for college and career

Upcoming Webinars

For K–12 Educators

ACT Explore Aggregate Reporting Package
April 24 at 1:00 p.m. (central time)

  • Learn what each aggregate report is telling you
  • See what types of data are available within each aggregate report
  • Discover potential ways to use the reports for interventions with students

ACT Engage: Assess and Strengthen Academic Behavior in Grades 6–12
May 8 at 10:00 a.m. (central time)

ACT Engage assessments for grades 6-9 and 10-12 help educators evaluate students' self-reported psychosocial attributes academic behaviors, determine their levels of academic risk, and identify interventions to help them succeed. ACT Engage results can help schools and districts ensure that more students succeed and graduate. ACT Engage is based on cutting edge research and measures motivation, social engagement and self-regulation. In this webinar learn how:

  • Personal development academic behaviors influence a student's academic success
  • Individual ACT Engage assessment results can be used to identify a student's personal strengths and needs
  • Assessment results are an early predictor of a student's high school GPA
  • ACT Engage Teacher Edition enables teachers to assess a student's academic behaviors
  • Aggregate reports help identify challenges for groups of students and the group's level of risk of discouragement or dropping out; districts can use the data to adjust interventions for these groups
  • Behavioral focused interventions decrease risk; results are connected to interventions and used to track progress

ACT Plan Student Score Report: Understanding and Utilizing Report Data
May 15 at 10:00 a.m. (central time)

  • See if your students are on target for college and career readiness
  • Learn how to begin identifying skill gaps with data and how you can adjust curriculum to close the gaps
  • Summarize the performance of your students by reviewing data
  • Compare your students' scores and subscores with those of students nationally

ACT Plan Aggregate Reporting Package
May 29 at 10:00 a.m. (central time)

  • Learn what each aggregate report is telling you
  • See what types of data are available within each aggregate report
  • Discover potential ways to use the reports for interventions with students

For Postsecondary Educators

How to Use ACT EOS for Effective Student Search
April 17 at 11:00 a.m. (central time)

Participants will receive an overview of the ACT EOS and PLAN online ordering systems and best practices for effective student search.

Strategic Uses of ACT Predictive Modeling Data
April 17 at 1:00 p.m. (central time)

Participants will receive an overview of the predictive modeling data, learn strategies for using the data effectively, and learn strategies for making more targeted EOS name selections.

Making the Most of State Testing for Student Recruitment
April 24 at 10:00 a.m. (central time)

State testing with The ACT (testing of all juniors in high school) brings many opportunities for student recruitment. This session will help you learn how to take advantage of these recruitment opportunities. Topics will include effective student search strategies in state testing states, how to promote score-sending behaviors in state-testing states that help students and institutions, and how to interpret student enrollment preferences and better understand student enrollment intentions.

Overview of AIM (ACT Information Manager)
May 1 at 11:00 a.m. (central time)

Participants will receive an overview of the primary uses of AIM, how it works, and how to use it for recruitment and retention.

Overview of EIS (Enrollment Information Service)
May 1 at 1:00 p.m. (central time)

Participants will receive an overview of the primary uses of EIS, how it works, and how to use it for recruitment and marketing.

How to Use ACT EOS for Effective Student Search
May 29 at 1:00 p.m. (central time)

Participants will receive an overview of the ACT EOS and PLAN EOS online ordering systems and best practices for effective student search.

Making the Most of State Testing for Student Recruitment
May 30 at 1:00 p.m. (central time)

State testing with the ACT (testing of all juniors in high school) brings many opportunities for student recruitment. This session will help you learn how to take advantage of these recruitment opportunities. Topics will include effective student search strategies in state testing states, how to promote score-sending behaviors in state-testing states that help students and institutions, and how to interpret student enrollment preferences and better understand student enrollment intentions.