Florida

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Florida Growth Models Seminar San Diego,
CA January 25, 2006
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Presentation Outline

• Floridas K-20 Education Data Warehouse
• Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
• Florida State Accountability Using a Growth
  Model
• Possible Models for including Growth in Floridas
  AYP calculations

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Florida K-20 Education Data Warehouse

• Initial development and population was conducted
  primarily through a vendor contract from January
  2001 to May 2003.
• Employs 12 full-time and 1 part-time staff
  members who maintain and edit data and make them
  available to users.

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Types of Data in Floridas K-20 Education Data
Warehouse

• Student demographic, enrollment, educational
  programs, promotion, attendance, test scores,
  other characteristics
• Educational Institution types, location,
  graduation rates
• Financial Aid state/local, loans/grants,
  disbursement
• Student Employment industry, military, wages
• Courses offerings, student and teacher
  participation, instruction type, grades
• Educational Staff demographic, certification,
  instruction type
• Educational Awards type, program, institution

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Floridas K-20 Education Data Warehouse

• Contents
• 10,329,264 Students
• 993,966 Staff
• 16,702 Institutions
• 276,196,852 Student Enrollments
• Structure
• 1,000 Application Programs Used
• 366 Data Tables
• 5,195 Columns

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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)

• Developed by teachers based upon Sunshine State
  Standards also developed by teachers.
• Administered to students in grades 3-10 since
  2000-01 (grades 4/5, 8, and 10 since 1997-98)
• Reading and Math (grades 3-10)
• Writing (grades 4, 8, 10)
• Science (grades 5, 7, 11)
• Reading and Mathematics assessments are
  vertically scaled, developmental scale score.

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Floridas School Grading System

• Schools are graded annually using the scale - A,
  B, C, D, F
• A Schools Grade is based upon
• Performance - are students on grade level?
• Learning Gains - are students making a years
  worth of progress, regardless of where they
  started the school year?

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Floridas School Grading System50 based on
Performance
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Floridas School Grading System50 based on
Learning Gains
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Floridas School Grade Points
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Learning Gains for School Grades

• Individual student learning gains are determined
  by comparing each students prior year test score
  to the current year test score using three
  different methods
• Improve one or more achievement levels (ex. 1-2,
  2-3, 3-4, or 4-5)
• Maintain their achievement level 3, 4, or 5
• Demonstrate more than one years growth when
  remaining in achievement level 1 or 2. Growth is
  defined as improving more than the FCAT
  developmental score cut-off in the chart from the
  prior year.

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Florida AYP Results
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Modeling for AYP Growth

• Maintain Proficiency Benchmarks
• Maintain current Safe Harbor
• Add a Growth Model Component as a third way to
  demonstrate the school is making AYP.

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Model 1

• More students maintaining or moving to
  proficiency in the current year compared to the
  prior year.
• If there were 100 kids in a school in 2004, 40
  of them were proficient and 20 of them moved up
  to proficient, then 60 of the kids were
  proficient or moved to proficient in 2004. Then
  in 2005, more than 60 of the kids have to
  maintain proficiency or move to proficient.

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Model 2

• Individual student performance trajectory to
  determine if each student is on-track to be
  proficient in two/three years.
• Use the past two, up to five, years of data for
  students and determine the growth from year to
  year based on the number of grades the student
  has progressed.

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Model 3

• Use a growth index using the learning gain
  component from school grades and the percent
  proficient from AYP as the growth index to
  determine percent proficient and on-track to be
  proficient based on the current proficiency
  targets.

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Model 4

• Use learning gains against a set of benchmark
  standards.

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Contact Information

• Christy Hovanetz Lassila, Ph.D.
• Director, Evaluation and Reporting Office
• Florida Department of Education
• 325 West Gaines Street, Room 316
• Tallahassee, FL 32399
• Phone [phone]
• Email evalnrpt_at_fldoe.org
• Website http//firn.edu/doe/evaluation/home0018.h
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