The Math Working Group analyzed content knowledge possessed by college ready students. This was categorized into three areas:
Exceptionally Prepared
Exceptionally Prepared Students Exhibit These Characteristics
Excellent knowledge of Reading. Ability to Perform Critical Reading and Thinking:
- Identify purpose, audience, evidence, and voice within a text
- Perform close reading of a text, create annotations
Excellent Ability to identify characteristics of Genre:
- Nonfiction (biographies, historical texts)
- Fiction (short story, novels)
- Poetry
- Drama
- Informational (technical texts)
- Current Events (periodicals)
Excellent Ability to Recognize Conventions of Standard English:
- Recognizes conventional and unconventional usage
- Recognize reasons for an author's choices of usage
Excellent Awareness of Literacy Practices:
- Recognize personal reading habits that maximize comprehension
Excellent Ability to Demonstrate Strong Essay Organization:
- Focused thesis
- Fully developed and supported introduction, body and conclusion
Excellent Awareness of Rhetorical Strategies:
- Audience awareness
- Rhetorical appeals (emotional, logical, ethical/credible)
- Voice and style
Excellent Ability to Write within Different Modes:
- Informative
- Persuasive
- Research
- Narrative
Excellent Familiarity and Usage of the Composition Process:
- Prewriting/Planning
- Drafting
- Peer Review
- Evaluating
- Revising
- Editing and Finalization
Excellent Ability to Write with Informational Literacy:
- Searching for and locating print and digital sources in libraries and databases
- Evaluating, analyzing, and incorporating print and digital sources
- Avoiding plagiarism
Excellent Ability to Use Conventions of Standard English:
- Grammar
- Mechanics
- Spelling
Excellent Ability to Incorporate Evidence:
- Accurate and ethical synthesis of sources
- Paraphrase, summary, and quotation of multiple sources
- Citation practices: MLA and/or APA
Excellent Ability to Perform Reflective Practice:
- Self-assessment
- Peer assessment
- Publish/performance
