Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) Results

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Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) Results
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Introduction

• Students can meet the assessment graduation
  requirement one of three ways
• HSPA
• AHSA
• Appeals
• The Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) is
  administered to students who have not passed the
  High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
• The AHSA is administered three times per year.

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Timeline
11th grade
12th grade
October HSPA
Appeals
3rd AHSA
March HSPA
1st ASHA
March HSPA
2nd AHSA
Appeals HSPA scores 190-199
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AHSA Mathematics

• Each Math Standard has Performance Assessment
  Tasks (PATs) associated with them.
• A student is considered to have taken a
  complete set of AHSA PATs when they are
  administered at least one PAT in each of the 4
  Standards.
• Each PAT has a raw score range of 0-3. A score
  of 2 is considered passing.

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AHSA Language Arts Literacy

• A student is considered to have taken a
  complete set of AHSA PATs when they are
  administered at least 2 Reading PATs and one
  Writing PAT.
• For Reading, the raw score range for each PAT is
  0-4. A score of 3 is considered passing.
• For Writing, the raw score range is from 2-12. A
  score of 6 is considered passing.

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AHSA Mathematics

• Through the second administration of AHSA, 8,174
  students were administered at least one PAT in
  each Math Standard (complete set), with 5,010
  students passing.

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AHSA Language Arts Literacy

• Through the second administration of AHSA, 6,216
  students were administered at least two Reading
  and one Writing PAT (complete set) with 2,625
  students passing.

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February Appeals

• 293 out of 586 students passed the Math appeals
  process.
• 261 out of 324 students passed the LAL appeals
  process.

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June Appeals

• 983 out of 1,369 students passed the Math appeals
  process.
• 319 out of 517 students passed the LAL appeals
  process.

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Next Steps

• The third AHSA testing window is still open and
  there are students who are enrolled in summer
  school.
• The HSPA and AHSA/appeals data will be tabulated
  at the student level in NJSMART.
• The graduation rate will then be calculated to
  determine the percentage of students that passed
  the assessment graduation requirement via HSPA or
  AHSA/appeals (Fall 2011).