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2023-2024 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 Review & Support Programs including:

- Complete ACT® Review course to help prepare 11th grade public school students prior to mandatory ACT® testing in Spring 2024.

- Jumpstart StartUps® digital bellringers to utilize in the classroom to introduce and practice ACT® standards for public high grades 9-11, along with some middle school sites.

- Complete ACT WorkKeys® Review course to help prepare 10th - 12th grade CTE & high school students prior to ACT WorkKeys® job skills testing during the 2023-24 school year.

Jumpstart Test Prep's review courses were developed by Mississippi's 19-year STAR Teacher, and STAR Teacher Hall-of-Fame inductee Dot McClendon. These programs leverage her 40+ years of experience helping students perform their best on the ACT® and ACT® WorkKeys® exams. Each program provides the following resources for students and teachers:

  • Teacher orientation and on-demand support for all programs
  • Expert content review and practice, along with test-taking tips and strategies delivered in the classroom via streaming video
  • Online, on-demand review providing realistic timed practice that can be led from the classroom or used individually by students via individual access accounts through May 2024
  • Consumable student workbooks for each subject to be completed alongside video content and later used as a study guide
  • Online timed assessments completed by students online links back to module content for better remediation of student deficiencies
  • Administrator dashboard reflecting the video module completion progress of teachers assigned to proctor the review and/or individual student progress

The goal of the 2023-2024 Mississippi legislative pilot is to help randomly selected high schools improve ACT® & ACT® Workkeys® assessment scores 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 Review programs for the 2023-2024 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 with any interested district or school, regardless of its selection for either pilot. For more information regarding the Jumpstart Test Prep review program, email info@jumpstarttestprep.com.

Jumpstart StartUps ACT-aligned video "bellringer" Selection Results

A total of 34 school high school and middle school sites applied for funding through the Pilot program, representing approximately 13,500 students. Grant funding for the 2023-24 school year to provide the Jumpstart StartUps ACT-aligned video "bellringer" repository prep is made available to all applicant sites. The selected schools include:

  • Aberdeen High
  • Alexander Middle
  • Amite County High
  • Ashland High
  • B.F. Liddell Middle
  • Bogue Chitto Attendance
  • Brookhaven High
  • Chalybeate School
  • Cleveland Central Middle
  • Coahoma County High
  • Columbia High
  • Ethel High
  • Falkner Attendance
  • George County
  • Harrison Central High
  • Hickory Flat Attendance
  • Independence High School
  • Kosciusko High
  • Lawrence County High
  • Loyd Star Attendance
  • McAdams High
  • Mt. Olive High
  • Newton High
  • Noxapater Attendance
  • Noxubee County High
  • Philadelphia High
  • Poplarville High
  • Strayhorn High
  • Union High
  • Walnut Attendance
  • West Harrison High
  • West Lauderdale High
  • West Lowndes High
  • West Tallahatchie High

Complete ACT Review Pilot Random Selection Results

A total of 47 schools applied for funding through the Pilot program, representing approximately 5,000 Juniors. Limited grant funding for the 2023-24 school year to provide the Jumpstart Complete ACT Review prep will be made available for approximately 1,000 juniors. Complete methodology and resulting draw will provide Jumpstart Test prep for 7 Mississippi public schools representing approximately 1,006 juniors. The selected schools include:

  • Center Hill High
  • Coahoma County High
  • Humphreys County High
  • Kosciusko High
  • Nettleton High
  • Strayhorn High
  • West Harrison High

Complete ACT WorkKeys Review Pilot Random Selection Results

A total of 47 schools applied for funding through the Pilot program, representing approximately 7,500 students. Limited grant funding for the 2023-24 school year to provide the Jumpstart Complete ACT WorkKeys Review prep will be made available for approximately 1,300 students. Complete methodology and resulting draw will provide Jumpstart Test prep for 8 Mississippi public schools representing approximately 1,291 students. The selected schools include:

  • Falkner Attendance Center
  • Forest Hill High
  • Hickory Flat Attendance
  • Newton High
  • Ripley High School
  • Terry High School
  • Wayne County High
  • West Lauderdale High
MDE Pilot Application Announcement/EdUpdate Pilot Details Notice to Schools Jumpstart Complete ACT® Review Application Jumpstart Complete ACT® Review Field Study Methodology 2023-24 ACT® Pilot Selection Method 2023-24 ACT® Pilot Selection Results Jumpstart StartUps® Bellringer Application Jumpstart StartUps® Field Study Methodology 2023-24 StartUps® Selected Sites Jumpstart WorkKeys Review Application Jumpstart WorkKeys Field Study Methodology 2023-24 WorkKeys Review Application Selection Method 2023-24 WorkKeys Review Selection Results MDE Announcement of Selected Schools/Ed Update 2023-24 JTP WorkKeys Review Evidence Based Research Analysis 2023-24 JTP WorkKeys Assessment Score Value Predictiveness 2023-24 JTP ACT Review Evidence Based Research Analysis

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