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
