高中复试提供了有意义的第二次机会

retesters where only15% were in the samecategory.•Increase inpostsecondaryqualifications andscholarships. The shareof school-day retestersachieving a 21 ACTComposite or greaterincreasesby 18%.Some states use a 21 orhigher ACT Compositescore to qualifystudents for statescholarships.•Increase in thenumber of studentsdemonstratingreadiness forpostsecondaryadmissions. If ACT’sCollege ReadinessBenchmarks are useddefault for qualifyingfor credit-bearingcourses then thepercent increase ofschool-day retestersmeeting theBenchmark is 17% forEnglish, 24% for math,and 23% for readingand science.•Decrease in testanxiety and increase inmotivation to learn.Research indicatesthat becoming familiarwith a test’s formatand length—whichcan be achieved byretesting—can reducetest anxiety.•Retesting can providesupport for research and evaluation.Administering the ACTat two different pointsin time provides a solidfoundation forresearch into theeffectiveness oflearning programsthat occur betweenthe twoadministrations. Senior School-DayRetest OffersMeaningful SecondOpportunity Jeremy Heneger Everyone deserves to puttheir best effort forward.This is especially true forstudents who are trying todemonstrate theirreadiness for college andcareer. To help studentsaccomplish their college orwork pathway, many statesrequire or offer studentsthe choice to take theACT®in the spring of theirjunior year. A growingnumber of states anddistricts also offer theirstudents a second chanceon a school day todemonstrate collegereadiness on the ACT in thefall of their senior year. The ACT brief “ExaminingBenefits of School-Day ACTSenior Retesting” “The ACT retake allowshigh school seniors tohave an additionalopportunity to boost ACTscores, potentiallyopening up newscholarship funding andimproving possibilities ofadmission to competitivecollege programs. TheACT retake is just one ofthe ways Tennesseeshows its commitment toproviding multipleopportunities forstudents to demonstratepost-secondaryreadiness.” Research conducted byACT indicates there aremultiple benefits fordistricts and states thatadopt senior retesting(Allen & Dingler, 2023). •Increase in access tosenior retesting forstudents from all typesof demographicbackgrounds. Forinstance, amongschool-day retesters35% came fromhouseholds earningunder $50,000 ascompared to Saturday —Lizzette Reynolds,Tennessee’sCommissioner ofEducation ACTState&FederalPolicy|Senior School-Day RetestOffersMeaningful Second Opportunity examined data fromstudents who took aschool-day test in both thespring of their junior yearandduring the fall of theirsenior year in 2022. ACTanalyzed over 1,300 schoolsacross 40 states with168,284 students, and thedata indicated that forapproximately 38% ofschools, the senior retestwas likely optional. Thecurrent brief offers a closerlook at the evidence-basedbenefits of a senior retest.Increased ACT scoresequate to real-worldopportunities for studentsand savings for families ofstudents pursuingpostsecondary educationoptions. Higher ACT scorescan help students gainadmission to colleges anduniversities, but this is justone of the benefits. HigherACT scores also helpstudents access statescholarships and contendfor competitivescholarships. ACT scorescan also lead to savings intime and money byhelping students place intohigher-level courses,allowing them to skipremedial and prerequisiteclasses and reduce theoverall cost and timeneeded to earn a degree. their students. This sectionfocuses on emerginglearning and best practicesfrom Wyoming andTennessee’s experiencewith senior retesting. percentof Tennesseeretesters improved at leastone of their sectionscores(reading, English,mathematics, and science)(Figure1). Forty-fourpercent of retestersimproved theirCompositescore, and among thatgroup, the averageincrease was 2 points. Tennessee was the firststate to offer a seniorretest, and it has beengoing strong since 2017.Senior retests have aproven track record ofproviding students with anadditional opportunity todemonstrate college andcareer readiness. In contrast, Wyoming has amuch smaller population.Wyoming’s senior retestprogram began in 2022and has also positivelyimpacted its students. Inthe fall of 2024, 1,749, or27%, of Wyoming seniorsparticipated in the optionalretest. Among retesters,90% improved at least one StateSuccess Stories:Tennessee andWyoming In the fall of 2024, over52,000 Tennessee seniorsembraced the senior retestopportunity provided bythe state. This representsmore than 70% of thesenior class.Eighty-eight During the 2024–2025school year, four states(Kentucky, Oklahoma,Tennessee, and Wyoming)offered optional seniorretest opportunities to ACTState&FederalPolicy|Senior School-Day RetestOffersMeaningful Second Opportunity section score (Figure 2).Forty-eight percent ofretesters improved theirComposite score; theaverage increase was 2points among that group. Based on the results fromspring testing in theirjunior year, 21,347 studentsqualified for the HOPEScholarship