The Course Objectives allow you to align your curriculum with the key essential skills students need to be prepared for postsecondary education or workforce training programs.
QualityCore® course objectives were empirically derived from an intensive study of high-performing high schools with significant minority and low-income enrollments. The study, On Course for Success: A Close Look at Selected High School Courses That Prepare All Students for College, was conducted jointly by ACT and The Education Trust.
Each set of objectives, reviewed and cross-validated by a selection of classroom teachers in high-performing schools across the country, covers the important knowledge and skills of the discipline—the essential ideas that students must master if they are to have a firm grasp of the field.
The objectives
- introduce knowledge and skills in an appropriate sequence
- show an increasing intellectual sophistication with each subsequent course
- represent what is manageable in terms of instruction
Teachers can analyze their courses by comparing their course content to the QualityCore objectives.