1. New Statewide Accountability System
Understanding School Report Cards
Fall, 2012

3. 3 years of Math and Science

4. Timeline Secure release of preliminary report cards
Week of Sep 24
Secure release of preliminary report cards
Available through SAFE for educators only - embargoed/unredacted
Includes report card, interpretive guide and technical guide
Sep 24 - Oct 8
Build understanding
Become familiar with the new accountability report and understand the data
Share report card with staff and shape messages to parents and media
Sep 24 - Oct 24
Verify data
All data (except ACT) is from districts via WSAS or ISES data collections
DPI is offering another 30-day opportunity for verification
Week of Oct 8
Public Release of preliminary report cards
Searchable state file posted to DPI webpage; PDFs organized by district
Still preliminary but public (with redaction)
Late Oct/ Early Nov
Secure and public release of final report cards
Secure file available through SAFE for educators only - unredacted
Public, searchable state file posted to DPI webpage - redacted
Final accountability report for

5. Report Card Packet Resources: Report Card Report Card Detail
Interpretive Guide
Technical Guide

6. Priority Areas Student Achievement
Indication of how the students’ level of knowledge and skills in a school compares against state and national standards.
Student Growth
Indication of how rapidly a school’s students are gaining knowledge and skills from year to year regardless of where students begin.
Closing Gaps
Indication of how much a school is contributing to the closing of statewide achievement gaps.
On-track to Graduation/ Postsecondary Readiness
Indication of how successfully students are achieving educational milestones that predict postsecondary success.

7. Accountability Determination

8. Accountability Determination

9. Impact of New NAEP Cut Scores
Grafton Talking Point - The entire State is transitioning to this new system. We will be working with the Department of Public Instruction to learn about the new measurements and how to improve.
Significantly reduces numbers and percentages of students who are Proficient and Advanced
Not applied to the Wisconsin Alternative Assessment for Students with Disabilities (WAA-SwD)
Does not alter data trends

10. Impact of New NAEP Cut Scores
Grafton Talking Point - Wisconsin schools were measured by state-specific proficiency levels. The new metrics are based on the higher standards of a national test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test.
Before Fall 2011
Fall 2011 and Beyond

11. School Score

12. Student Achievement

13. Student Achievement Purpose
To indicate how a school’s students’ level of knowledge and skills compares against state academic standards
What is being measured?
A composite of reading and mathematics performance level profiles for the “all students” group in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System (WSAS)

14. NAEP SCORES
WKCE READING – OLD CUT SCORES

15. School Score

16. Student Growth

17. Student Growth
Purpose: To give schools a single measure that summarizes how rapidly their students are gaining knowledge and skills from year to year What is being measured? Progress toward higher performance levels---A point system rewards schools for students’ making improved progress and penalizes schools for regression to performance below proficient

18. Student Growth Overview:
Single score characterizes growth in reading and math
Score projects anticipated growth
SGP (Student Growth Percentile) rank
Composite score for the “all students” group in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System (WSAS)
Characterizes the change in WKCE scores from last year to this year, compared to others with similar score histories

19. Student Growth

20. Calculation Walkthrough begins on Page 19 of the Technical Guide

21. Sub groups with at least 20 students
School Score

22. Closing Gaps

23. Closing Gaps

24. Closing Gaps
Purpose: To provide a measure that corresponds to the statewide goal of having all students improve while narrowing the achievement and graduation gaps that often separate different groups of students What is being measured? Subgroups are compared against their complementary, comparison groups Schools get credit for raising a sub-groups score and deductions for a decline in any groups performance

25. Attendance Rate and 3rd Grade Reading Achievement.
School Score

26. On-Track and Postsecondary Readiness

27. On-Track and Postsecondary Readiness
Purpose: Give schools an indication of how successfully students are achieving educational milestones that predict postsecondary readiness.

28. On-Track and Postsecondary Readiness
Talking Point - Accountability ratings are not only based on student test scores. Multiple measures give a more accurate picture of how effective our schools are.

29. On-Track and Postsecondary Readiness

30. School Score
WES had no deductions

31. Student Engagement Indicators
Purpose:
Establish performance expectations for all elementary schools in two areas that are vital for measuring school effectiveness:
Absenteeism Rate
3rd Grade Reading Achievement
Overall school accountability score is reduced by five points for each goal that is not met.

32. Communication Resources
Accountability Reform
Report card resources, college and career ready cut scores, waiver request for ESEA flexibility, educator effectiveness
Agenda 2017 Communications Resources
Video, timeline, fact sheets, presentations and media, sample parent letters

33. QUESTIONS?