Career and College Ready Graduate (CCRG) Legislation
The State Board of Community Colleges (SBCC) in consultation with the State Board of Education (SBOE) is required, to develop a program that introduces the college developmental math, reading, and English curriculum prior to high school graduation. High school seniors that are not career and college ready by the end of their junior year, will have opportunities for college remediation prior to high school graduation through cooperation with community college partners.
S.L. 2018-5, Section 9.4
Important Links:
Enroll in the CCRG Canvas Resources Course. Please follow these instructions to join.
DPI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
CCRG Exemption Criteria
NROC CCRG Support Center
CCRG Office Hours
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Angie Mullennix at DPI: Angie.Mullennix@dpi.nc.gov
Nicole McCabe: nmccabe@nroc.org
Jessica Huffman: jhuffman@nroc.org
Brigette Myers: bmyers7799@stanly.edu
September Accountability Information
How are North Carolina educators involved in the state’s summative test development process?
- North Carolina educators are crucial to the test development process. These educators include classroom teachers, English Learner and Exceptional Children’s experts, curriculum coaches, administrators, and central office staff.
- Before any test items can be written, educators are brought in from across the state to participate in the development of new content standards. Drafts of the proposed standards are sent out for statewide feedback. Once the NC State Board of Education adopts the new standards, educators are invited to assist in the creation of test specifications that serve as the recipe for which standards will be included on each assessment and the relative weight of those standards.
- Once the standards are adopted and the test specifications are in place, educators are trained in the new standards and begin writing test items. Item writers are issued contracts for a certain number of items that match the new standards at a particular grade level. In later steps of the item writing process, two additional educators review the items and offer their feedback. This is all part of the rigorous review process for each item before it is field tested on an NC summative assessment.
- Once field tested and approved, these new items are assembled to create a new NC End-of-Grade (EOG), End-of-Course (EOC), NCEXTEND1, or NC Check-In assessment. Once an assessment is administered for the first time, another group of educators is convened to participate in a process called standard setting. During a weeklong workshop, these educators work together to develop new Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) and make recommendations on the new cut scores for the assessment. Achievement levels are predetermined performance standards that allow a student’s performance to be compared to grade-level expectations. North Carolina educators use the state’s adopted content standards to develop ALDs that outline the content knowledge and skills demonstrated at the different achievement thresholds. Educators also decide how to differentiate the performance associated with a student who is nonproficient from that of a Level 3 student, a Level 3 student from that of a Level 4 student, and a Level 4 student’s from that of a Level 5 student. The ALDs and cut score recommendations are adopted by the State Board of Education.
- Additionally, NC educators are called together to participate in a process called an alignment study. During this study, educators review EOGs, EOCs, and NCEXTEND1s to see how well each test item matches the NC Standard Course of Study for reading or mathematics, the NC Essential Standards for science, or the NC Extended Content Standards for accommodations and how well the test is aligned to the test specifications.
- Educators from across the state participate in this process. The ideal NC educator is one who is passionate about education and knowledgeable about the standards and how students interact with the content. NCDPI is eager to expand our diverse group of participants by adding more educators from across the state with various levels of experience.
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