Making Sense of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

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Making Sense of Adequate Yearly Progress(AYP)

• Media Workshop, July 2007

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Background

• No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
• Applies to all public schools
• Test reading and math in grades 3-9
• and 11
• Test science at least once in each
• grade span (elementary,
• middle high school) in 2007-2008
• (does not count toward AYP)

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Measuring Student Performance

• State Content Standards - what a student should
  know and be able to do.
• Student performance on content standards measured
  by New Mexico Standards Based Assessments.
• Goal to achieve at Proficient or Advanced levels
  on the Standards Based Assessment.

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AYP Has Three Parts

• Student Participation in Testing
• Proficiency in reading and math
• Graduation and attendance
• rates (called Other
• Academic Indicators)

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Groups Evaluated for NCLB

• All Students
• Ethnic groups
• American Indian/Alaskan Native
• Asian/Pacific Islander
• Black
• Hispanic
• White (Non Hispanic)
• Students with Disabilities
• English Language Learners
• Economically
• Disadvantaged (FRLP)

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Test Participation

• 95 of students must take the state assessments
• NCLB subgroups with 40 or more students are
  evaluated

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Proficiency in Reading Math

• All schools and subgroups must be 100 proficient
  by SY 2013-2014
• NM set baseline using 2004-2005 NM Standards
  Based Assessment
• Targets called Annual
• Measurable Objectives (AMOs)
• increase every year toward
• 100

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AMOs for Grades K-5

http//www.ped.state.nm.us/div/acc.assess/assess/a
yp_amos.html
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AMOs

• Matched to School Configuration

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Calculating Proficiency

• Percent students scoring Proficient and Advanced
• Calculated for All Students Group and for
  subgroups with 25 or more students
• Computed separately for Reading
• and Math
• Includes Full Academic Year
• students only

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Three ways to make AYP in Proficiency

• AMO
• Confidence Interval
• Safe Harbor

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Proficiency Compared with AMO

• Compares the school/subgroup proficiency to the
  AMO
• If proficiency is equal to or
• higher than AMO, meets AYP

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Proficiency Confidence Interval

• A 99 one-tailed confidence interval is applied
  to the AMO to improve statistical reliability for
  small groups
• The smaller the group, the wider the confidence
  interval
• If subgroup proficiency is equal to or greater
  than the lower bound of the CI, makes AYP

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Proficiency Confidence Interval

• Example
• AMO 38 Proficient
• 74 students
• Lower bound of Confidence Interval 7.76

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Safe Harbor

• When a subgroup fails to meet AYP
• for proficiency, even with the
• confidence interval.

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Safe Harbor has 3 requirements

1. 10 reduction in non proficiency rate
2. 95 participation rate
3. Meet target for Attendance, Graduation or show
   progress from last year

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10 Reduction in Non Proficiency
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Other Academic Indicators

• Attendance Rate for elementary or middle school
  (school without 12th grade)
• Graduation Rate for high school
• (school with 12th grade)

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Attendance Rate

• 92 or greater to make AYP

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Three Ways to Meet Graduation Rate

• Target is 90 or higher
• If not 90, this years rate higher than last
  years rate
• If not higher, average
• of this year and last
• two years must equal
• or exceed last
• years rate

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How a School Makes AYP

• Every subgroup must meet targets in
  participation, proficiency, and the other
  academic indicator (attendance or graduation)

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There are 37 Possible Ways Schools Must Make AYP
(Miss One Indicator and The School Does Not Meet
AYP)
Population Reading Participation Reading Achievement Math Participation Math Achievement Other Indicator
All Students Met Met Met Met Met
Native American Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
Asian / Pacific Islander Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
Hispanic Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
Black Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
White Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
Students With Disabilities Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
ELL Met Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
FRL Does Not Meet Met Met Met The other indicator for high schools is the graduation rate. The other indicator for elementary and middle schools is attendance rate. Additional indicator applies to the whole school.           
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NCLB Designations

• Schools that continue to miss AYP get a
  designation
• There are 5 designations
• School Improvement I
• School Improvement II
• Corrective Action
• Restructuring I
• Restructuring II

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Content Areas and Other Indicator Get Designations

• Not make AYP for two consecutive years in same
  content area or other academic indicator, it
  receives School Improvement I designation for
  that indicator
• Each additional year of not making AYP moves the
  school further up the continuum

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Content Areas and Other Indicator Get Designations

• Receives most serious designation of the
  areas/indicator
• Make AYP for one year in designation, go into
  delay
• Make AYP for two years and designation is removed

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School Example