2025年秋季ACT职业准备指标进展更新

This document is intended to help ACT®score report users understand how the ACT ProgressToward Career Readiness indicator was derived and how it was updated for the 2025–2026 TheACT®WorkKeys®National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC®)is a portable, evidence-based credential earned by completing three assessments: Applied Math, GraphicLiteracy, and Workplace Documents. The WorkKeys NCRC certifies foundational workplaceskills required for success across a wide range of industries and occupations. It is awarded at Students who take the ACT test receive theProgress Toward the WorkKeys NCRC indicator,which predicts their likely NCRC level based on their ACT Composite score. This indicator wasupdated before the 2025–2026 ACT testing year, using the most recent data from students whocompleted both the ACT and the three WorkKeys Assessments. The update reflects a change in The updated indicator estimates the WorkKeys NCRC level students are likely to earn if theywere to take the WorkKeys Assessments at approximately thesame time as the ACT test. Thetable below shows how the ACT Composite score ranges align with predicted WorkKeys NCRC To inform this update, ACT analyzed data from a sample of 338,832 students who took both theACT and WorkKeys Assessments within one academic year of one another, between fall 2022and summer 2025. The sample was 51% female and 49% male, with the followingracial/ethniccomposition: 49% White, 29% Black, 14% Hispanic, 5%two or more races, 2% Asian, and 1% was 18.5. Among these students, 11% earned a Platinum NCRC, 17% earned a Gold NCRC,29% earned a Silver NCRC, 29% earned a Bronze NCRC, and 15% did not qualify for an The table below presents the percentage of students earning each NCRC level and thepredicted NCRC, by ACT Composite score. (Scores below 8 are excluded due to small samplesizes.) For each ACT Composite score, the predicted NCRC was the most frequent NCRClevel