Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives AMAOs: Update

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Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOs)
Update

• Jacqueline A. Iribarren, DPI
• September 27, 2007

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Chronology of Wisconsin Events September 2003

• No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
• Title III Regulations
• DPI WIDA partner states create ELP Standards
  (grade clusters K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12
  language domains listening, speaking, reading
  and writing)
• ESEA Consolidated Application

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2003 Interim AMAO Targets

• Stakeholders including DPI WIDA ESL/Bilingual
  education professionals
• Cut scores set on the four ELP instruments (using
  performance standards as guides)
• Local data on past performance from LEAs
• Research review on attaining full proficiency
  (5-7 year timeframe by Thomas Collier, 2000
  2002)

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2003 Interim AMAO Targets

• 90 of LEP Level 1 students will progress by one
  language level in one year.
• 90 of LEP Levels 2-4 will progress by at least ½
  language level in one year.
• 90 of LEP Level 5 students will become fully
  proficient in one year.

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Assessment Instruments

• Identified four state-approved English
  Language Proficiency (ELP) assessments in 2003
• LAS
• IPT
• Woodcock-Munoz
• MAC-II

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2005-06 School-Year

• ACCESS for ELLs is adopted as the statewide ELP
  assessment
• Individual Student Enrollment System (ISES)
  Implemented
• Stakeholder meeting to discuss AMAO targets in
  April 2006 (initial dialogues to revise targets)

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Spring 2007

• ELL Advisory Task Force and AMAO Focus Group
  meetings
• Reviewed student ELP growth using two years
  ACCESS for ELLs
• Recommend revisions for AMAO targets and cohort
  descriptions

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July 2007

• AMAO determinations for 2003-04, 2004-05,
  2005-06 and 2006-07.
• Submit reading and mathematics achievement
  results for former LEP (newly Level 6) students.
  
• Inform LEAs and Consortia of AMAO status.
• Require LEAs to inform parents if they have not
  met AMAO targets.

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June-August 2007

• Office of Educational Accountability and Content
  Learning Team collaboration
• Analysis of 2005-06 and 2006-07 matchedACCESS
  for ELLs and WKCE results
• WDPI submitted new AMAO Targets and cohort
  description

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August 2007

• Revised AMAO targets and cohort description
• AMAO 1 Progress in English language acquisition
  
• 50 for ELP Levels 1-4
• Six Cohorts (K-2, 3-8 9-12 ELP 1-2 and 3-4)

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AMAO 1 Expected Growth
Initial English Language Proficiency (ELP) Level
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AMAO 2

• AMAO 2 Exiting or reaching English language
  proficiency
• 20 for ELP Level 5

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September 2007

• Notification to LEAs and Consortia that have not
  met AMAO Targets in 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06,
  2006-07.
• Calls and letters
• Determinations based on revised AMAOs

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October 2007

• Letter to districts Per our latest guidance from
  OELA districts are to only notify parents if
  AMAOs were missed during the last two years of
  ACCESS testing 05-06 and 06-07.

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What about sanctions . . .

• Present time, only to notify parents when
  districts/consortia have missed the targets as
  required per Title III

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In the meantime

• Continue stakeholder input until OELA produces
  guidance on AMAOs
• Cross-agency efforts within DPI Internal Advisory
  Committees
• Accountability for English Language Learners
  collaboration between OEA and Title III CALT

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Additional Contact Information

• Susan Ketchum, Accountability ConsultantOffice
  of Educational Accountability
• susan.ketchum_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Visit our websitehttp//www.dpi.wi.gov/oea/