Infoworks Home
toc.GIF (958 bytes)Commissioner's AddressUser's GuideSchool & District ReportsSALT Survey ReportsStatewide AnalysisOnline Discussion ForumGetting AssistanceGetting Acrobat ReaderRelated Education SitesRelated Government Sites
 

User's Guide Home  red-arrow.GIF (91 bytes)

Field 9: Longitudinal Achievement Data and Adequate Yearly Progress

(Towards All Students Reaching State Standards)

What You Are Looking At

You are looking at an empty field that will track, over the years, each school’s efforts to set (in consultation with RIDE) and to meet goals for improved student achievement. This field will compare achievement data from year to year. The only tests from 1996 that can be used to build longitudinal data are the 8th and the 10th grade math and the 10th grade writing assessment. Only results from tests which are
reliable for study over time will be reported here. The Regents will set standards for each test so that all public reporting can be expressed in terms of the percentage of students that are performing at a level which the Regents have determined is proficient.

What You Are Looking For

Over the course of years you will be looking to see that the achievement results trend upward towards the 100% line, and that schools are meeting their student achievement targets.

achievement.GIF (5202 bytes)

Defining Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

AYP is the measure of the progress a school or a district is making towards moving all children to meet the Regents standard of proficiency.

We are fortunate to be able to study other states’ experience with setting progress targets and handling rewards and sanctions that go with them. Perhaps the first lesson is that a single year of data can woefully misrepresent the trend of a school. A particularly exemplary or challenged class can skew the results and either inflate or deflate the real achievements of the school as a whole. Therefore, RIDE currently proposes using three to five-year rolling averages to determine the basis from which to derive a target for adequate yearly progress. A rolling average means that in each new year the most recent set of achievement scores are averaged with the appropriate number of prior years.

Return to Top  ||   Return to the User's Guide Home Page

Return to the Information Works Home Page