- ADP Benchmarks – End of High School
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The American Diploma Project's (ADP) cornerstone is English and math benchmarks that define the knowledge and skills high school graduates need to be successful. The accompanying workplace tasks and postsecondary assignments demonstrate how those skills are used. Click on the section names below to see links to the benchmarks and samples.
Benchmarks
The English and mathematics benchmarks were identified and refined over 18 months of research conducted in postsecondary institutions and high-performance workplaces, both within and beyond the ADP partner states (Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada and Texas) and in conjunction with K-12 educators. (See Research for a description of the development process.) The benchmarks are accompanied by workplace tasks and postsecondary assignments that illustrate the intellectual demand that high school students will encounter in high-performance workplaces or in credit-bearing first-year college and university courses.
Defining Rigor: Reading Lists and Sample Mathematics Problems
In both English and mathematics, a deliberate attempt has been made to indicate the quality and complexity of the expectations by providing examples of the kinds of reading and mathematical problems the benchmarks are meant to describe.
In English, for example, it's not enough to ask students to analyze texts. According to employers and postsecondary faculty, students must have been expected to analyze particular kinds of rigorous texts, so that as graduates they will be prepared to meet the demands that face them after high school. Thus, the ADP English benchmarks are to be used in close coordination with the Indiana and Massachusetts reading lists, which not only define the quality and complexity of reading expected of all high school students, but also suggest a common level of "cultural literacy" expected of all high school students.
English benchmarks are organized into eight strands:
Mathematics benchmarks are organized into four strands:
- Number Sense and Numerical Operations
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Data Interpretation, Statistics and Probability
Workplace Tasks and Postsecondary Assignments
Workplace tasks and postsecondary assignments accompany the benchmarks. Please note that these are not meant to describe the quality and complexity of high school assignments. Although the benchmarks, tasks and assignments may be used in the future to inform the development of high school lessons, these are designed simply to illustrate the intellectual rigor of real-world environments beyond high school and the applicability of the ADP benchmarks in postsecondary and workplace settings.
Within each sample, the corresponding English and mathematics benchmarks are called out so that readers may easily recognize how, and in what context, the benchmarks are applied.
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