ACT/CAAP Linkage Report

The ACT/CAAP Linkage Report presents an analysis of performance for students who tested with the ACT Assessment on entry to college and with CAAP at a later date.The purpose of each report is to assist institutions in answering questions related to the growth of student cognitive skills related to general education from the time students enter college until they are tested with CAAP.

An ACT/CAAP Linkage Report can be ordered at any time during the calendar year and will include results using students' most recent ACT scores and institutionally requested CAAP scores (e.g., an institution may choose to link ACT scores to CAAP scores for the present year and up to three years preceding).

Here are some questions that an ACT/CAAP Linkage Report can begin to address:

How does the absolute performance of local students on the ACT Assessment and CAAP compare to the national reference group?

How have local students changed in terms of cognitive skills related to general education, compared to a national reference group (e.g., have students demonstrated less growth than expected, expected growth, or more growth than expected)?

Here are samples of the information the report provides:

Reading Performance Summary
ACT Assessment				CAAP
	N	Mean	S.D.		N	Mean	S.D.
Reference Group:	12,046	20.7	5.2	Reference Group:	12,046	60.8	5.1
Your School:	100	21.5	5.4	Your School:	100	61.6	5.4

Sample descriptive statistics for the local institution and reference group

Sample page from report

Sample distribution of matched student scores by ACT and CAAP deciles

For more information about ordering an ACT/CAAP Linkage Report, contact ACT at 319/337-1136. For technical questions, call 319/337-1531.

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