1. Michigan School Report Card Update
Michigan Department of Education
Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability
Paul Bielawski
November, 2007
Education YES is Michigan’s school accreditation system. It is a new system designed to meet the needs of the 21st century.

2. Accountability Components
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
No Child Left Behind Act
State Accreditation –
Education YES!
Michigan Revised School Code
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3. Legal Requirements from Code
Annual Report
School Improvement Plan
Core Curriculum
Assessment of ELA/reading and math grades 1-5
High School Courses
NAEP Participation if Selected
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4. Education YES! Developed in 2002 Used since 2002-03
Time to start looking at changes, revisions, and improvements
Student Achievement
Indicators
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5. Education YES! to date Achievement Achievement Change Status
This is the big picture, showing all of the pieces of the system. It includes both indicators of school performance and measures of student achievement. The indicators come from research and best practice. They are critical for establishing a fair system for Michigan school accountability. They may be seen as investments in improved learning.
Indicators
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6. Proposed for 2007-08 Achievement Status adjusted for
Progress or Change
This is the big picture, showing all of the pieces of the system. It includes both indicators of school performance and measures of student achievement. The indicators come from research and best practice. They are critical for establishing a fair system for Michigan school accountability. They may be seen as investments in improved learning.
Indicators
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7. Achievement Status
A score and grade for each subject counted at the school
Uses data for all subjects counted at the school
Includes assessments assigned by feeder code for grades 3-9
Based on the best of most recent year, most recent two years, or most recent three years
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8. Performance Level Change Designations
Used to compare the achievement of the same students at adjacent grade levels
Same student from grade 3 to grade 4
Improvement or decline within a performance level is recognized
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9. Performance Level Change Designations - MEAP
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10. Predicted Achievement
A prediction will be made for each content area and grade level that were tested in previous years and that are not used for Performance Level Change Designations
Science
Social Studies
High Schools
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11. Achievement for Accreditation
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12. Indicators to be Phased In
SIF Report
Rubrics or SAR for NCA schools
School Improvement Plan
External Data
Extra Credit
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13. MDE/NCA Partnership Streamline Reporting
North Central Association (AdvancEd)
NCA Schools
Standards and Assessment Report to MDE in place of Rubrics Report
Other Schools
Update rubrics report on AdvancEd site
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14. External Data All Levels Percent Highly Qualified Teachers
Student Attendance Rate
Parent Teacher Conference Attendance
Instructional Staff turnover rate
Percent of staff involved in Professional Development
Percent of new teachers mentored
Years of experience based on date of hire
Percent of teachers working under permit
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15. External Data Elementary Middle Schools High Schools
District offers school readiness program
Middle Schools
Percent of students taking Algebra 1
High Schools
Graduation and Dropout Rates
Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment
Percent Participating
Percent Taking and Percent Passing AP exams
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16. Education YES! Plans
Credit for reporting self-rating, evidence or SAR for NCA schools
External Data
“Extra Credit”
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17. Extra Credit Additional Data Collection and Use Peer Review
Surveys of parents, staff, students
Peer Review
Program Distinction
Limit on effect of “Extra Credit” for Grade and Score
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18. Education YES Plans 2006-07 was a Statewide Pilot for Indicators
Link self-rating and evidence to Action Plan
Additional External Data
“Extra Credit”
Student Progress related to Achievement Status
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19. Approval Steps Firm-up Plans Report to State Board Public Hearings
Approval with Revisions from Public Hearings
Legislative Committees
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20. Adequate Yearly Progress
Participation - 95% tested
MEAP, MME, or MI-Access
Achievement - Proficiency
Meet state objective or “safe harbor” target for improvement
Participation and Proficiency
Must meet in both Math and English Language Arts
Must meet for whole school and subgroups
Additional Academic Indicator
Graduation Rate – 80% - high schools
Attendance – 85% - elementary and middle schools
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21. Student Groups for AYP Racial/Ethnic Groups Limited English Proficient
Black or African American
American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian, Hawaiian Native, or Pacific Islander
Hispanic or Latino
White
Multi-racial
Limited English Proficient
Students With Disabilities (Special Education)
Economically Disadvantaged (Free & Reduced Lunch)
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22. Michigan AYP Targets
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23. Math AYP Goals Over 12 Years
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24. 50 “cells” for AYP
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25. AYP Participation
Aggregate percent tested across all grades tested at the school
Total Number Tested (grades 3+4+5)
Total Number Enrolled (grades 3+4+5)
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26. Full Academic Year
Students enrolled in the school for the three most recent semi-annual official count days
Students in their first year in a school because of the grade structure of the school if the student was, in the previous year, enrolled in another school in the same district
for example, a student “graduating” from a K-4 elementary school to a 5-8 middle school
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27. Feeder Codes
Because the Elementary and Middle School assessment window is in the fall, feeder codes are used to attribute scores to the school where the student was enrolled in
If the district did not assign a feeder code, SRSD was used to look-up enrollment in for the student
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28. AYP Targets MDE has set separate statewide AYP targets for each grade
A Proficiency Index is used to combine the grade level proficiency data and grade level targets to make an AYP decision across the grades
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29. Grade Level AYP Targets
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30. Proficiency Index
The difference between the percent proficient and the grade level target is computed for each grade level
The difference is weighted by the number tested at each grade
The weighted differences are summed across grades
The school meets the state objective if the Proficiency Index is 0 or more
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31. Index ELA
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32. Provisional
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33. Safe Harbor An additional way to meet the AYP achievement target
Achievement must improve from year to year
Provisionally proficient students counted in both the prior year and the current year
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34. Safe Harbor
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35. NCLB Graduation Rate
NCLB requires that AYP include a graduation rate based on the percentage of students that
Receive a REGULAR high school diploma
In the STANDARD number of years
AYP (including a graduation rate) is required for ALL schools
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36. Michigan Graduation Rates
Michigan is moving to a “cohort method” of reporting Graduation Rates
The “cohort method” follows students across their high school careers
The “cohort method” will include graduation rates for each student group that can be reliably measured – 30 or more students expected to graduate
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37. Graduation Rates for 2007-08 AYP
The Graduation/Dropout Review and Comment Application from CEPI provides the graduation rates used for AYP for the class of 2007
The application will open in late winter or early spring of 2008
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38. Fifth Year Students
Districts will be able to designate certain students not expected to graduate in four years
Students with disabilities
English language learners
Medically fragile
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39. AYP and Graduation Rate
The AYP target graduation rate will remain at 80% until such time as the cohort rate is implemented
Improvement in the graduation rate will substitute for meeting the target using “safe harbor”
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40. All students taking MI-Access are counted as tested
Cap of 1% on MI-Access proficient scores
Cap is district-wide
Some schools might exceed the cap
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41. Unified AYP and Grade B A A B C D F B (iv) B C (iii) C D/Alert (ii) C
Education YES!
Composite Score
C (iii) C
D/Alert (ii) C
Unaccredited (i)
D/Alert (ii)
No AYP
Makes AYP
(i) – (iv) – Priorities for Assistance
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42. Contact Information
Paul Bielawski
Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability
Michigan Department of Education
PO Box 30008
Lansing, MI 48909
(517)
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