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2022-2023 Mississippi Pilot ACT® & ACT® WorkKeys® Research

The Mississippi Department of Education, through the Office of Secondary Education, is pleased to announce that the Mississippi Legislature has made appropriation for Jumpstart Test Prep's Complete English & Reading Review course to help prepare over 3,000 Mississippi 11th grade public school students prior to mandatory ACT® testing in the spring of 2023 and over 1,000 Mississippi 12th grade public school students prior to ACT WorkKeys® testing in the Spring of 2023

Jumpstart Test Prep's review courses were developed by Mississippi's 19-year STAR teacher, and STAR teacher hall-of-fame inductee, Dot McClendon. This program leverages her 40+ years of experience helping students perform their best on the ACT® exam. The program provides the following resources for students and teachers:

  • Expert content review and practice, along with test taking tips and strategies delivered in the classroom via streaming video
  • Online, on-demand review (12 total modules, each approximately 40 minutes in duration) providing realistic timed practice for the ACT English & Reading sections OR WorkKeys sections that can be led from the classroom or used individually (online, on-demand) by students through May 2023
  • Consumable student workbooks for each subject to be completed as lecture content is watched and later used as a student study guide
  • Online timed assessments completed by students online will link back to module content for better understanding of student deficiencies
  • Administrator dashboard reflecting the video module completion progress of teachers assigned to proctor the review and/or individual student progress
  • On-demand support

The goal of the 2022-2023 Mississippi legislative pilot is to help selected high schools improve ACT composite English & Reading sub-score averages as well as ACT Workkeys assessment improvements and gain feedback and improvement research results from schools awarded the review course pilots.

Random school selection for the legislative pilot of the Jumpstart Test Prep Complete English & Reading Review for the 2022-2023 school year will be made from all applying schools with priority given to schools not previously selected, while ensuring representation across several demographics (i.e. geographic, school rating, ethnic make-up, free/reduced lunch indicators, etc.).

Please note that appropriated funds will cover all costs for these pilot programs and Jumpstart Test Prep will provide free student workbook delivery with school faculty orientation and training meeting.

Jumpstart Test Prep will meet to discuss our program and efficacy research with any interested district or school, regardless of their selection for either pilot. For more information regarding the Jumpstart Test Prep review program, email info@jumpstarttestprep.com.

ACT English & Reading Pilot Random Selection Results

A total of 87 schools applied for funding through the Pilot program, representing approximately 10,350 Juniors. Limited grant funding for the 2022-23 school year to provide the Jumpstart English & Reading ACT prep will be made available for approximately 3,000 juniors. Excel was used to generate random draws with the “randbetween” function and the resulting draw will provide Jumpstart Test prep for 23 Mississippi public schools representing approximately 3,154 juniors. The selected schools include:

  • Booneville
  • Columbia
  • George County
  • Greenville
  • Greenwood
  • Grenada
  • Houlka Attendance
  • Jefferson Davis County
  • Lafayette
  • Lake Cormorant
  • Laurel
  • Lewisburg
  • Long Beach
  • Madison Shannon Palmer
  • Morton
  • Northeast Jones
  • Noxapater Attendance
  • Noxubee County
  • Perry Central
  • Riverside
  • Southeast Lauderdale
  • West Bolivar
  • West Lauderdale

ACT WorkKeys Pilot Random Selection Results

A total of 67 schools applied for funding through the Work Keys program, representing approximately 7,687 Juniors. Limited grant funding for the 2022-23 school year to provide the Jumpstart ACT WorkKeys prep will be made available for approximately 1,000 juniors. Excel was used to generate random draws with the “randbetween” function and the resulting draw will provide Jumpstart Test prep for 11 Mississippi public schools representing approximately 1528 seniors. The selected schools include:

  • Amanda Elzy
  • Ashland
  • Bogue Chitto
  • Brookhaven
  • Charleston
  • Columbus
  • Greenwood
  • Jim Hill
  • Leland
  • Meridian
  • Raymond
MDE Application Notice to Schools 2022-23 Jumpstart English & Reading Grant Application 2022-23 Jumpstart WorkKeys Pilot Application School Territory Map 2022-23 ACT Field Study Methodology 2022-23 WorkKeys Field Study Methodology 2022-23 ACT Random Selection Results 2022-23 WorkKeys Random Selection Results MDE Announcement of Selected Schools 2022-23 Jumpstart Test Prep ACT Review Evidence Based Research Report 2022-23 Jumpstart Test Prep ACT WorkKeys Review Evidence Based Research Report

Teacher Feedback

Helping Wonderful Teachers Achieve Excellent Outcomes

Jumpstart's comprehensive coverage of the ACT standards and its time restrained practice enables students to be more comfortable while sitting for the actual test. Also, since our ACT has gone digital, the JTP digital formatting truly simulates the actual test.

Andrew Huey
College & Career Readiness / Advanced Math Plus Teacher
Long Beach High School

Jumpstart was an incredible asset to me as an educator. The English portion of the ACT covers many grammar skills that have not been reviewed since middle school. Jumpstart provided by students with a comprehensive review of all the skills required to be successful on the ACT.

Anna Kate Robinson
Teacher
Nettleton High School

As a high school math teacher, I have been using JumpStart in all my classes since we incorporated it into our district curriculum at the beginning of this school year. With my class enrollment consisting of tenth and eleventh-grade geometry and algebra II students who will be taking their ACT very soon, I find the JumpStart program exceptionally productive as it covers a comprehensive range of ACT-related math videos and related problems. While the presenters, all of whom are high school math teachers, have varying presentation skills, all are very effective presenters, and most are exceptional! Many of my students who have taken the ACT this year have advised me that they saw similar to practically identical problems on their ACT math test that they had learned to work on in our daily JumpStart sessions.

Furthermore, when I recently experienced a logistical issue with administering JumpStart in my daily classes, I contacted and the situation was promptly resolved. So, not only is the JumpStart program outstanding, but the customer follow-up and responsiveness are equally stellar.

I strongly recommend JumpStart to schools interested in improving their ACT scores.

Tom Giles, EdD
Math Teacher
Wayne County High School

“After attending a Jumpstart presentation at a summer conference, our leadership team decided to purchase Jumpstart Test Prep for our upcoming ACT WorkKeys® test. Our students completed the seven day boot camp which intensely focused on each section of the test. The individualized remediation offered by the program was outstanding, and our students showed impressive gains in all three areas. The workbook provided to each student was also a tremendous benefit in their preparation. When all testing was completed, Jumpstart sent a detailed data report of student achievement. The Jumpstart program definitely prepared our students and helped us achieve an 84% pass rate! And this year or best to date - 94.44%! We were especially pleased with the number of our students who obtained gold and platinum levels.  Going forward we will continue to use Jumpstart and recommend it to other schools who administer the ACT Workkeys® test.”

Kelli Herrin
Career and Technical Education Director
Pearl River County CTE