Connecting College, Career, and Military Readiness Indicators to Student Outcomes in Texas
Educators and other leaders in Texas sought to identify a set of student outcomes during high school that predicts student success in college and/or career after high school.
Established in the Texas Education Code, Section 39.053(b), the college, career, and military readiness (CCMR) indicators are intended to measure high school graduates’ preparedness for college, the workforce, or the military. The Texas Education Code includes 10 CCMR indicators: six measure college readiness, three measure career readiness, and one measures military readiness.
In 2024, the Texas Education Agency contracted with AIR to examine relationships between CCMR indicators and postgraduation outcomes. Using administrative data from the Education Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, AIR researchers explored relationships between CCMR indicators and student outcomes including college enrollment, college credit accumulation, college degree completion, and attainment of a self-sufficiency standard wage.
Additional analyses explore relationships between CCMR indicators and outcomes for students participating in the Texas College and Career Readiness School Models and potential refinements to the existing CCMR indicators.
Study findings, which are summarized in series of reports and white papers, will inform future policy decisions at the Texas Education Agency.
