Michigan School Accountability AYP and Education YES!

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Michigan School Accountability AYP and Education
YES!

• Michigan Department of Education
• Office of Educational Assessment and
  Accountability
• Paul Bielawski
• November - December 2006

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NCLB Accountability

• Requires a Single State Accountability System
• Goal 100 Proficiency at the end of 12 Years
• States set a starting point at or above a federal
  minimum and set objectives for improvement

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• Participation - 95 tested
• MEAP or MI-Access
• Achievement - Proficiency
• Meet state objective or safe harbor target for
  improvement
• Participation and Proficiency
• Must meet in both Math and English Language Arts
• Must meet for whole school and subgroups
• Additional Academic Indicator
• Graduation Rate 80 - high schools
• Attendance 85 - elementary and middle schools

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Student Groups for AYP

• Racial/Ethnic Groups
• Black or African American
• American Indian or Alaska Native
• Asian, Hawaiian Native, or Pacific Islander
• Hispanic or Latino
• White
• Multi-racial
• Limited English Proficient
• Students With Disabilities (Special Education)
• Economically Disadvantaged (Free Reduced Lunch)

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Additional Student Groups for NCLB Report Card

• Gender
• Also PA 25 Annual Report
• Migratory Status

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AYP Assumptions

• Same Target for ALL student Groups
• ALL means ALL
• All students count upward from the school to
  the district to the state level
• Graduation Rates are part of AYP to keep schools
  from forcing out low achieving students

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Michigan AYP Targets
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Math AYP Goals Over 12 Years
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50 cells for AYP
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Student Groups and AYP

• AYP is a status model with a moving bar
• Safe Harbor is another way to make AYP
• It is not necessary to for the school or group to
  make improvement each year
• A school or district can have an achievement gap
  and still make AYP

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AYP Participation

• Aggregate percent tested across all grades tested
  at the school
• Total Number Tested (grades 345)
• Total Number Enrolled (grades 345)

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Full Academic Year

• Students enrolled in the school for the three
  most recent semi-annual official count days
• Students in their first year in a school because
  of the grade structure of the school if the
  student was, in the previous year, enrolled in
  another school in the same district
• for example, a student graduating from a K-4
  elementary school to a 5-8 middle school

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Feeder Codes

• Because the Elementary and Middle School
  assessment window is in the fall, feeder codes
  are used to attribute scores to the school where
  the student was enrolled in 2005-06
• If the district did not assign a feeder code,
  SRSD was used to look-up enrollment in 2005-06
  for the student

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Feeder Codes

• Feeder codes are used for PROFICIENCY
• Participation is based on the school where the
  student tested in fall 2006
• There may be a small number of students without a
  feeder code
• These students count for proficiency at the
  school where they tested

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AYP Targets 2006-07

• The published AYP targets will not change
• MDE has set separate statewide AYP targets for
  each grade
• A Proficiency Index is used to combine the grade
  level proficiency data and grade level targets to
  make an AYP decision across the grades

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Grade Level AYP Targets
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Proficiency Index

• The difference between the percent proficient and
  the grade level target is computed for each grade
  level
• The difference is weighted by the number tested
  at each grade
• The weighted differences are summed across grades
• The school meets the state objective if the
  Proficiency Index is 0 or more

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Index ELA
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Group Size

• ALL schools are given an AYP status
• Group Size applies to subgroups NOT to all
  students

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Group Size

• Michigans proposal to amend the minimum group
  size was denied by the US Department of Education
• Minimum Group Size Across Grades Tested is 30
• If total enrollment is more than 3,000
• 1 Percent of Total Enrollment
• District AYP
• Maximum subgroup size is 200

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AYP Reliability - Margin of Error

• Measurement Error - APPROVED
• Would the student score the same if tested again?
• Standard Error of Measurement
• Sampling Error NOT APPROVED
• Does the sample of students tested reflect the
  whole school?
• Standard Error of Proportion with Finite Sampling
  Error Correction

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Provisional 2005-06
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Student Attendance

• Student attendance is taken from the End-of-Year
  SRSD submission of the prior school year
• Attendance is computed by summing the scheduled
  and actual days of attendance and then dividing
  the sum of the actual by the sum of scheduled

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NCLB Graduation Rate

• NCLB requires that AYP include a graduation rate
  based on the percentage of students that
• Receive a REGULAR high school diploma
• In the STANDARD number of years
• AYP (including a graduation rate) is required for
  ALL schools

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Michigan Graduation Rates

• Michigan has used the same methodology to report
  graduation rates since 1989
• Michigan will move to a cohort method of
  reporting Graduation Rates
• The cohort method follows students across their
  high school careers
• The cohort method will include graduation rates
  for each student group that can be reliably
  measured

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Graduation Rates for 2006-07 AYP

• The Graduation/Dropout Review and Comment
  Application from CEPI provides the graduation
  rates used for AYP for 2006-07
• The AYP target graduation rate will remain at 80
  until such time as the cohort rate is implemented

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AYP and Students with Disabilities

• Federal Rules 1 cap 2003
• Federal Flexibility - 2005
• Michigan was one of 3 states approved to use an
  existing test
• New Federal Proposed Rules
• Final rules expected Jan 1, 2007

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Proposed Federal Rules

• Published December 15, 2005
• 2 cap applies to Modified Achievement
  Standards
• reflect reduced breadth or depth of grade-level
  content
• States would NOT be allowed to approve exceptions
  to the 2 cap

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MI-Access Functional Independence

• The Functional Independence assessment is
  considered an alternate assessment, subject to
  the 1 cap on proficient scores.
• MDE also limits proficiency for students that
  took this assessment, based on the students
  primary disability

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MI-Access Participation and Supported
Independence

• These assessments were counted for AYP
  participation in 2005-06
• U.S. Department of Education denied use of these
  assessments for AYP proficiency in 2005-06
• Revised versions of these assessments will be
  administered in the SPRING of 2006-07

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Flexibility Option 1

• The target is reduced by 15 points in cases
  where the SOLE reason that a school does not make
  AYP is the proficiency of students with
  disabilities
• Flexibility Option 1 will cease when federal
  regulations on modified achievement standards are
  finalized and states have the opportunity to
  develop new assessments

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Progress (Growth) and AYP

• Federal Growth Pilot
• Safe harbor by matched cohort
• Growth as an alternative way of making AYP
  through safe harbor
• North Carolina and Tennessee approved to use
  growth in 2005-06 AYP decisions

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Contact Information

• Paul Bielawski
• Office of Educational Assessment and
  Accountability
• Michigan Department of Education
• PO Box 30008
• Lansing, MI 48909
• [phone]
• bielawp_at_michigan.gov