With one of the CDs, tenth graders are using their Algebra II, Geometry, and English skills to conduct market research and write a business plan to open a store in a local mall. In the process, they learn estimating skills, use equations, interpret graphs and tables and learn about designing systems. Packer and Siberts see one barrier to the use of the Career Transcript system in the increased emphasis on academic testing to the exclusion, they feel, of work-related standards. One of their goals is to use the Career Transcript System as an effective assessment tool. Evaluations of the pilot Career Transcript System projects are underway.
Preliminary results show some increase in student grade levels.