Reading your Accountability Reports UPASS AYP

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Reading your Accountability Reports U-PASSAYP

• Judy Park, Associate Superintendent
• Data, Assessment Accountability
• Utah State Office of Education
• August 2007

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Utah Performance Assessment System for
StudentsU-PASS Accountability Plan
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U-PASS

• State Accountability
• Required by State Law
• School level report
• Based on multiple assessments
• Includes attendance graduation rate

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U-PASSAccountability Plan

• Student Participation on Assessments
• Proficiency Scores
• Percentage of students proficient on the
  collection of assessments and other indicators
• Progress Scores
• Longitudinal measure based on comparing the
  achievement levels of the same student from one
  year to the next

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Achieved State Level of Performance
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U-PASSAccountability Plan

• Student Participation
• 95
• Acceptable Proficiency Score
• Schools without a 12th grade 80
• Schools with a 12th grade 75
• Progress Score
• Without 12th grade With 12th grade
• Low 0 189 Low 0 - 179
• Medium 190 214 Med 180 - 214
• High 215 400 High 215 - 400

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Progress Value TableSchools without a 12th grade
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Progress Value TableSchools with a 12th grade
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Schools will be identified as

• Achieved State Level of Performance
• Participation is 95 and
• Total School AND Subgroup Proficiency is
  acceptable or progress is medium or high
• Needs assistance
• Participation is less than 95 or
• Total School or Subgroup Proficiency is not
  acceptable and progress is low

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Schools without a 12th gradeProficiency and
Progress Score

• Math (35)
• Math CRT
• Science (20)
• Science CRT
• Attendance (10)

• Language Arts (35)
• ELA CRT (35)
• Or
• ELA CRT (30)
• DWA 5

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Schools with a 12th gradeParticipation Score

• Schools with a 9th grade
• CRT 90, DWA 10
• Schools without a 9th grade
• CRT 100

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Schools with a 12th gradeProficiency Score

• Proficiency
• Language Arts 30
• Math 25
• Science 20
• Attendance 10
• Graduation Rate 15

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Schools with a 12th gradeProficiency Score

• Language Arts 30
• ELA CRT 80
• Or ELA CRT 75
• DWA 5
• UBSCT Reading 10
• UBSCT Writing 10
• Math 25
• Math CRT 65
• UBSCT Math 35

• Science 20
• Science CRT
• Attendance 10
• Absent fewer than 15 days
• Graduation Rate 15
• AYP Calculation

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Schools with a 12th gradeProgress Score

• Language Arts CRT 30
• Math CRT 25
• Science CRT 20
• UBSCT 15
• Calculate the difference between the pass rate
  for the 5th (final) attempt in the 12th grade
  and the initial pass rate in the 10th grade
• Attendance Progress 10

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Schools with a 12th gradeProficiency and
Progress Score

• Proficiency
• Language Arts 30
• Math 25
• Science 20
• Attendance 10
• Graduation Rate 15

• Progress
• Language Arts CRT 30
• Math CRT 25
• Science CRT 20
• Attendance 10
• UBSCT 15

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U-PASS Accountability Plan

• Aggregate Subgroup Accountability
• Every student who belongs to a subgroup other
  than white
• Individual student proficiencies are added
  together and divided by the number of students to
  determine the subgroup proficiency level
• Any individual subgroup not meeting proficiency
  will appear on the front page of the report

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U-PASS Accountability Plan

• Subgroup Proficiency Accountability
• Allows greater accountability
• Students in a subgroup with less than 10 are now
  included in the aggregate calculation
• Students are more fairly represented
• Each student only counts once, regardless of the
  number of subgroups in which the student
  qualifies.
• Increased reliability
• We are evaluating a larger group
• More students and more schools are represented
• Increased validity
• We do not overweight small populations.
• This lifts the burden of one subgroup being the
  sole determinant of unacceptable status of the
  school.

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The U-PASS Report

• Web-based report format
• An increased amount of information available on
  each school
• Allows for drill-down information

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We have currently locked the 2007 U-PASS data for
your own schools only.
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U-PASS

• Additional Information
• NRT
• ACT/SAT
• AP
• Concurrent Enrollment
• School Summary Information
• Student Summary Information
• Percent of student reading on grade level
• (reported for grades 1-10)
• Dropout Rate (disaggregated by 08)
• Disciplinary Action
• Course Taking Patterns and Trends

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• Questions?

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AYP School Reports
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AYP

• Federal Accountability
• Required by Federal NCLB Title I Law
• School, District State level Reports
• Based on Language Arts CRT Math CRT
• Includes attendance graduation rate

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AYP Level 1

• Three parts
• Participation in testing
• Academic achievement
• School attendance / graduation
• All-or-nothing concept

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AYP Level 1

• Did the school make AYP?
• Math vs. Language Arts?
• AMO (Annual Measurable Objectives) increased this
  year
• Consequences only for Title I schools

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AYP Targets
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AYP Level 1

• WHICH STUDENTS ARE IN THE AYP SCHOOL REPORTS?

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Students in AYP U-PASS School Reports

• Two large data collections
• 1) End-of-Year Clearinghouse,
• 2) Core CRT Files
• These Two Files Need To Match To Be On AYP
  U-PASS School Reports!
• 6 Fields for Matching District, School, Last
  Name, First Name, Date of Birth, Gender
• SSID

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Full Academic Year
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Math Core CRTs
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Language Arts Core CRTs
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AYP Level 1

• Questions?

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AYP Level 2

• Status vs. Safe Harbor (Improvement)
• Safe Harbor
• 10 reduction in of students not proficient

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AYP Safe Harbor (Improvement)
Proficient
Not Proficient
Status
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AYP Safe Harbor (Improvement)
Proficient
Not Proficient
Status
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AYP Safe Harbor (Improvement)
Improvement
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AYPSafe Harbor (Improvement)
Improvement
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AYPSafe Harbor (Improvement)
Good for Improvement
Shows Improvement
Good for Status
Improvement
Does not show improvement
Proficient
Not Proficient
Status
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AYPSafe Harbor (Improvement)
Made AYP
Made AYP
Shows Improvement
Improvement
Made AYP
Does not show improvement
Proficient
Not Proficient
Status
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Status
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Safe Harbor
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10 Reduction in of students not
proficientExample

• 2006 60 proficient
• 2007 66 proficient
• 2006 40 not proficient
• 2007 34 not proficient
• 10 of 40 is 4
• 40 - 4 36
• To make safe harbor, 36 or less must be not
  proficient or 64 or more must be proficient
• Made safe Harbor ( more students proficient than
  required)

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AYPLevel 2

• Safe Harbor
• Additional Indicator is only used when Safe
  Harbor calculation is needed
• Attendance 93
• Graduation Rate 85.7

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AYPLevel 2

• Confidence Interval on Status
• 99
• Confidence Interval on Safe Harbor
• 75
• Participation Additional Indicator
• N/A

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ConfidenceInterval

• Voting exit polls

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Confidence Interval on Status
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Confidence Interval on Safe Harbor
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AYPLevel 2

• N size 10 vs. 40
• Small N Automatic YES

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AYP Level 2

• N40 participation, attendance, and graduation
• N10 academic achievement

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AYP

• Graduation rate 85.7
• One year delayed (have until Sep 1)
• 05 data from warehouse
• 04, 03 data from USOE statistical files
• Quality of data has improved
• 40 ways to make (or not make) AYP

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Times 10
40 ways to make (or not make) AYP
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Elementary
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AYP Level 2

• Questions?

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AYP Level 3

• Definition of safe harbor
• Definition of participation
• Definition confidence intervals
• Definition of graduation rate
• UAA

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AYP 2006Level 3

• Questions?

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AYP Did your school make it?

• Participation DID YOU MEET IT?
• Participation Is the N size less than 40?
• Did they have 95 participation?
• Did they average 95 participation over the last
  three (or two) years?

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AYPDid your school make it?

• Status Is the subgroup size less than 10?
• Status Is the proficient enough?
• Status If the proficient is not enough does
  the confidence interval change it?

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AYPDid your school make it?

• Safe Harbor Is there a 10 reduction in
  students not proficient?
• Safe Harbor Is the reduction of students not
  proficient within the confidence interval?

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AYP Did your school make it?

• Attendance/Graduation Rate Is the subgroup less
  than 40?
• Attendance/Graduation Rate Did the school meet
  93 attendance rate or 85.7 graduation rate
• Attendance/Graduation Rate has there been an
  increase from the previous year?

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Level Three Clarifications
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AYPLevel 3

• Participation Category Students enrolled on
  test date.
• Participation within tests Students youve had
  for the full academic year. (subset of category
  set)
• Participation grad/attend. Is ALL students

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95 Participation

• Participation percentage can be averaged over
  the previous two (or three) years, if necessary.
  If this does not help, the current year
  participation percentage will be used

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LEP Subgroup Definition
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Additional Indicator AYP Attendance 93
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Additional Indicator AYPGraduation Rate 85.7
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UAA TestingSpecial Ed Alternate Assessment

• Grade level is derived based on birthdate
• Core Test Id and grade level will be used to
  determine which Actual Test ID to assign a
  student to. LA and grade level will correspond
  to an Actual Language (Reading) class for that
  student. MA and grade level will correspond to a
  math course.
• UAA students whose birthdate is in 9-12th grades
  will be added to GE0812R Geometry. They are part
  of High School Math AYP!
• UAA in 7-8th grade will be added to 7th grade
  math.

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Out-of-Level Testing

• Not allowed
• No for participation
• No for academic achievement
• Math Levels
• 6th Math 6 7th Math 7 8th Pre-Alg.
  Anything lower for the grades is Out-of-Level and
  considered Not Proficient.

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District AYP Reports

• District AYP Report
• Grades 3 8
• Grades 10 12
• Business Rule
• An LEA will receive a report based on both 3-8th
  and 10-12th grade AMO's.  An LEA must fail at
  both the 3-8 AND the 10-12 grade levels to fail
  AYP.  (Either subject)

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District AYP Reports

• District AYP Report
• Grades 3 8
• Grades 10 12
• Program Improvement
• Business Rule
• An LEA is identified for improvement only when
  it misses AYP in the same subject and in all
  grade spans for two consecutive years, or the
  other academic indicator in all grade spans for
  two consecutive years.
• (It is possible for an LEA to not pass AYP and
  yet not be put into 'Improvement' because
  'Improvement' considers 'subject' in addition to
  grade levels whereas 'not making AYP' does not. 

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Appeals

• 1. An error in the aggregating and merging of
  data and/or a calculation error, or other errors
  that directly affects school or district status.
• 2. Extreme circumstances that affected data
  and/or test administration that had a significant
  impact on the school (e.g., flood, fire, natural
  disaster).

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Appeal Process

• September 10
• Deadline for District Superintendent to submit a
  written appeal request for U-PASS, school AYP or
  District AYP, stating the reason for the appeal.
  An E-mail response from USOE will confirm receipt
  of the appeal.
• Data and documentation that directly influences
  the appeal needs to be stored at the district.

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Appeal Process

• September 17
• Districts release reports to the public
• September 18
• Reports posted on the web
• September 17 November 1
• Districts submit to USOE any error corrections
• November 1 November 30
• New U-PASS AYP reports developed
• November 30
• New U-PASS AYP reports posted on web
• All reports a Yes or a No
• Appeal remains for 2 Extreme Circumstance

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AMAOs

• Title III Accountability

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AMAOs

• September 17
• Districts release reports to the public
• September 18
• Reports posted on the web
• September 17 November 1
• Districts submit to USOE any error corrections
• November 1 November 30
• New U-PASS AYP reports developed
• November 30
• New U-PASS AYP reports posted on web
• All reports a Yes or a No
• Appeal remains for 2 Extreme Circumstance