General Information
There are three parts to this program:
The online ACT WorkKeys curriculum
The online ACT NCRC certification assessment
The project includes hands-on curriculum, a field trip, and a graduation celebration
As an educator, you will conduct your PLTW engineering curriculum and embedded math course as you normally would, including guest speakers and extracurricular activities. The ACT WorkKeys curriculum encompasses Applied Math (our primary focus), Graphic Literacy, and Workplace Documents. The online curriculum is divided into levels and subtopics within each level.
Students will sign into two software programs: at the beginning of the program, they will sign into the online curriculum and near the end, they will sign into the assessment.
The online curriculum teaches students the basics of the subjects and allows them to do practice work and practice quizzes with end-of-unit tests.
The assessment package is for practicing the NCRC assessment and the actual assessment.
Educators can administratively sign into both programs. Their sign-in pages look different from the student sign-in pages, even though they are the same program.
Program Order
The following should help orient youth to the project.
Curriculum
Home Page- About the Program
IRB Consent
a. After receiving IRB consent forms, WVSU will enter student information for batch group processing into the system and provide the educator with student sign-in / student account numbers. They will provide the educator with sign-in information to monitor youth in 'real time'.
b. Pre-Survey is to be given before sign-in information
All About the Program
Getting Started
a. Teachers should become familiar with
Sign in to Home | ACT WorkKeys Assignment
b. About The Learning Plan- How it Works
c. About Practice Questions
d. Other video supports
NCRC Assessment
Before youth are ready to take the assessment
a. The teacher should become familiar with:
Assessment Orientation
Rights and Responsibilities PDF- Give out/sign and date bottom.
Access to the website- for practicing the NCRC (this is different than curriculum practice quizzes).
Test Day
Test Day Practice
Expectation of Test Day
Test Day and After: (to include Digital Badging)
Gaining copies of NCRC - My WorkKeys: Login
After testing
a. Post Survey Administration
b. Provide Testing Outcomes
c. Tour/Field Trip
d. Graduation from WorkKeys