The ABCs of Accountability Robin McGraw School Improvement Supervisor Anniston City Schools

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The ABCs of Accountability Robin
McGrawSchool Improvement SupervisorAnniston
City Schools
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Purpose

• The purposes are
• To provide familiarization with the new
  vocabulary created for accountability as a result
  of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
• To use the new accountability vocabulary
• in context with school status reports.

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Accountability

• To ensure the expectations of the courses of
  study content standards are being implemented in
  the classroom.

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• The term used to describe if a school or school
  system has met its Annual Measurable Objectives.
• It is often referred to as AYP.
• AYP is what the school or school system did this
  year.

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• AYP is reported for 4 categories
• Reading
• Mathematics
• Additional Academic Indicator
• Overall

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School Improvement

• The term used to describe if a school or school
  system has met its goals over time.
• School Improvement is based on what the school
  or school system did this year and prior years.
• A school is identified for School Improvement
  when it does not make AYP in the same component
  (reading, mathematics, or AAI) for two
  consecutive years.

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School Improvement

• School Improvement is reported in four categories
• Reading
• Mathematics
• Additional Academic Indicator
• Overall

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Annual Measurable Objective

• The term used to describe the established yearly
  target for the percent of students scoring
  proficient.
• It is often referred to as AMO.

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Annual Measurable Objective(continued)

• There are separate AMOs for each grade in reading
  and for each grade in mathematics.
• The AMO goal is 100 for all students by school
  year 2013-2014.

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Confidence Interval

• It is used to determine whether or not the
  proficiency index is statistically different from
  the AMO goal.
• It is used to ensure statistically sound
  decisions.
• A school is considered to have made AYP if its
  proficiency index is within the confidence
  interval.

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Confidence Interval(Continued)

• Confidence interval is abbreviated as CI on
  School Status Reports.

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Uniform Averaging

• Uniform averaging is another way to make AYP in
  participation and proficiency.
• It is calculated by averaging the most recent
  three years of data.
• Uniform averaging is abbreviated as UA on School
  Status Reports.

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Safe Harbor

• Safe harbor is a method used for making AYP in
  proficiency.
• A school makes AYP by safe harbor if the school
• Made 95 participation goal
• Reduced by at least 10 those not proficient from
  the previous year
• Met or improved the additional academic indicator

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Interim 2 Flexibility Option

• Interim 2 is a method used for making AYP in
  proficiency.
• Can only be used if special education proficiency
  index is the sole reason a school or system does
  not make AYP.
• Allows the State to calculate an adjustment for
  the proficiency for this group.
• This option is for this year only.

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Participation Rate

• Participation rate is the number of students
  taking the assessment divided by the number of
  students enrolled on the first day of the testing
  window.
• The required participation goal for No Child Left
  Behind is 95 or greater.

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Participation Rate

• A group must have at least 40 students in order
  to count for the participation rate.

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Proficiency Index

• Only students enrolled for the full academic year
  are included in the proficiency index.
• Students scoring in Levels III and IV will count
  as 1.0 toward proficiency and students scoring
  Level II will count as 0.5 toward proficiency.

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Proficiency Index

• Proficiency index is a method of combining the
  percent of students that are proficient across
  grades.
• A proficiency index of zero or better indicates
  the group made AYP.
• A group must have at least 40 students in order
  to count for accountability except for the All
  Students category.

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Additional Academic Indicator

• NCLB requires (in addition to reading and
  mathematics) that another indicator be considered
  when determining AYP.
• Alabama uses
• Attendance Rate
• Graduation Rate

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Additional Academic Indicator

• Attendance Rate
• At least 95 attendance rate or show improvement
• Used for schools without Grade 12
• Based on the 40-day attendance report

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Additional Academic Indicator

• Graduation Rate
• At least 90 or show improvement (For this year
  only, we will also use meets or improves dropout
  rate)
• Used for schools with Grade 12.
• Required by NCLB

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Anniston City Schools2007 Adequate Yearly
Progress Reports
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