Using COMPASS to Find Your Way
Dr. Beth Cipoletti
John Ford
Jessica George

• Untimed computer-adaptive test (CAT) college placement test developed by ACT to measure academic readiness for college-level courses.
– Scores range from 1 to 99.
– Items are multiple-choice.
– Item difficulty adjusts to the skills student, eliminating items that are too easy or difficult.

• (c) The results on the comprehensive statewide student assessment program in grade eleven in English/language arts and mathematics shall be used to determine whether a student has met the collegeand career-readiness standards adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.

• (e) The state board shall develop a twelfthgrade transitional course for both
English/language arts and math for those students who are not on track to be college and career ready based on the assessment or exam, as applicable, required pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. . . assessment to determine whether a student has met the college- and career-readiness standards after completion of the transitional course

Policy 2510 Foundations for High
Quality Adolescent Programming
Guidance Document
All student who do not meet the ACT
COMPASS benchmark as a junior must retake ACT COMPASS after or near the end of their senior ELA/mathematics course
(pages 3 and 10).
Office of Secondary Learning, Adolescent Level Guidance http://wvde.state.wv.us/instruction/

4.8.a. Effective for the senior class of 2015-2016 and beyond, all public school students enrolled in grade
12 who did not meet the minimum scores(s) on
COMPASS for mathematics and writing skills English as established by the West Virginia Higher
Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia
Council for Community and Technology College
Education will retake COMPASS mathematics and/or
ACT COMPASS writing skills test(s) at the end of the
Transition course(s) or the approved alternate/higher level course

4.8.a.1. Effective for the senior class of 2015-
2016, students in grade 12 who do not meet the placement standards for COMPASS mathematics or writing skills will be excused from retaking COMPASS upon provision of appropriate documentation of ACT or SAT scores that meet the placement standard(s) prior to the beginning of the COMPASS testing window.

SERIES 21: FRESHMAN
ASSESSMENT AND PLACEMENT
STANDARDS

Series 21: Placement Standards
• West Virginia Higher Education Policy
Commission
• West Virginia Council for Community and
Technical College Education
COMPASS File Cabinet, WV Colleges and
Universities folder

Series 21
COMPASS Placement Standards
Pre-Algebra
Algebra
• Score at or above 59
• Score at or above 36
AND
English
(Writing Skills)
• Score at or above 71

Series 21
ACT Placement Standards
Mathematics
English

Series 21
SAT Placement Standards
Mathematics
Critical
Reading
(Verbal)

Scheduling the Traditional or the
Integrated Pathway

• Dr. Beth Cipoletti
– dcipolet@k12.wv.us
• Jessica George
– jlgeorge@k12.wv.us
• John Ford
– jford@k12.wv.us