1. Reading your Accountability Reports U-PASSAYP Judy Park, Associate Superintendent Data, Assessment & Accountability Utah State Office of Education August 2007

2. Utah Performance Assessment System for StudentsU-PASS Accountability Plan

3. U-PASS • State Accountability • Required by State Law • School level report • Based on multiple assessments • Includes attendance & graduation rate

4. 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

5. Achieved State Level of Performance

6. 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

7. Progress Value TableSchools without a 12th grade

8. Progress Value TableSchools with a 12th grade

9. 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

10. Language Arts (35%) ELA CRT (35%) Or ELA CRT (30%) & DWA 5% Math (35%) Math CRT Science (20%) Science CRT Attendance (10%) Schools without a 12th gradeProficiency and Progress Score

11. Schools with a 12th gradeParticipation Score • Schools with a 9th grade • CRT – 90%, DWA – 10% • Schools without a 9th grade • CRT – 100%

12. Schools with a 12th gradeProficiency Score • Proficiency • Language Arts 30% • Math 25% • Science 20% • Attendance 10% • Graduation Rate 15%

13. 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 Schools with a 12th gradeProficiency Score

14. 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%

15. 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% Schools with a 12th gradeProficiency and Progress Score

16. 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

17. 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.

18. The U-PASS Report • Web-based report format • An increased amount of information available on each school • Allows for “drill-down” information

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

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29. 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

30. Questions?

31. AYP School Reports

32. 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

33. AYP Level 1 • Three parts: • Participation in testing • Academic achievement • School attendance / graduation • All-or-nothing concept

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35. 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

36. AYP Targets

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38. AYP Level 1 • WHICH STUDENTS ARE IN THE AYP SCHOOL REPORTS?

39. 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

40. Full Academic Year

41. Math Core CRTs

42. Language Arts Core CRTs

43. AYP Level 1 • Questions?

44. AYP Level 2 • Status vs. Safe Harbor (Improvement) • Safe Harbor • 10% reduction in % of students not proficient

45. AYP Safe Harbor (Improvement) Not Proficient Proficient Status

46. AYP Safe Harbor (Improvement) Not Proficient Proficient Status

47. AYP Safe Harbor (Improvement) Improvement

48. AYPSafe Harbor (Improvement) Improvement

49. AYPSafe Harbor (Improvement) Good for Improvement Shows Improvement Good for Status Improvement Does not show improvement Not Proficient Proficient Status

50. AYPSafe Harbor (Improvement) Made AYP Made AYP Shows Improvement Improvement Made AYP Does not show improvement Not Proficient Proficient Status