Why Use QualityCore^®?

QualityCore . . .

• Ensures that outcomes of high school core preparatory courses are aligned with college readiness standards.
• Uses student achievement data to ensure the quality, consistency, and rigor of high school courses.
• Provides teachers with model lessons, model units, formative assessment item pools, and end-of-course assessments to help improve the quality, consistency, and rigor of core preparatory courses.
• Provides valid and reliable measures of student achievement.
• Allows educators to longitudinally monitor student achievement in becoming ready for college and workforce training programs by assessing progress on a course-by-course basis.
• Provides teachers with useful formative feedback about student progress that can be used to guide instructional interventions.
• Provides research-based professional development designed to support data-driven decisions.
• Provides a system for evaluating the long-term impact of varying instructional delivery models on student learning and teacher practice.
• Provides assessment information that, when combined with ACT scores, can be used to make college course placement decisions and to award college credit.