Best Practices for Sharing Results

Support students and parents by giving them more detailed information about score reports.

Student Information Sessions

Without some context for understanding their reports, students who have received notification that their scores are available might rush to look at their scores and stop there. As a best practice, set up student information sessions to discuss online score reports before the students' scores are released.

Information sessions can include the importance of score reports and how to interpret them. To help students understand the information without the distraction of their own scores, we'll provide a sample score report.

Students with access to College Board accounts will have access to their scores online as well as additional insights to help them better understand their performance. This includes:

• Putting their scores in context using score comparisons and percentiles
• Understanding their knowledge and skills in 4 content areas in Reading and Writing and 4 content areas in Math
• Exploring careers by viewing a career snapshot that provides examples of growing careers in their state aligned to the skills demonstrated by the student in their test.

Students with access to the BigFuture^® School mobile app will receive customized career possibilities, information about financial aid and scholarships, and guidance to help plan for college.

Additional Best Practices

You and your colleagues can further help students in these ways:

• Review detailed student reports in the K–12 score reporting Portal to identify students' strengths in each content domain in the Knowledge and Skills section of their report.
• Show students how they can use results to get free, tailored Official SAT Prep on Khan Academy^®.
• Use AP Potential™ to identify students who are likely to succeed in AP.
• Show students how they can use their score to search for colleges on BigFuture.