Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives AMAO for NCLB Title III

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Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO)
for NCLB Title III

• Division of Assessment Implementation
• Office of Assessment and Accountability
• Kentucky Department of Education

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Framework for Setting Kentuckys English Language
Proficiency AMAO for

• The annual percentage of LEP students making
  progress as demonstrated by movement from one
  proficiency level to the next .
• The annual percentage of LEP students attaining
  English language proficiency as demonstrated by
  Attained level .

 
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Rationale for Developing Annual Measurable
Achievement Objectives (AMAO) for Progress

• Generally, the lower the students entry level,
  the more proficiency levels he/she has to
  progress through, and the longer (more years of
  instruction) it takes to attain English language
  proficiency (Attained).
• Formal Schooling versus Limited or No Formal
  Schooling. LEP students who have had limited or
  no formal schooling require more time to
  demonstrate progress and attainment of English
  language proficiency than LEP students who have
  had prior formal schooling experiences.

 
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K1214 FormalBaseline Data

• Cohorts
• Start 1 2 3 4 5
• 10 Ad Ad Ad/At At
• 24 UI UI/Ad Ad Ad/At At
• 26 LI LI/UI UI Ad Ad/At At
• 40 B B/LI LI UI Ad At
• Progress 45 50 83 65 53
• Attainment 0 5 17 25 53

Actual
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KY Performance Levels Matched up with ACCESS PLs

• Beginner(B) ENTERING
• Lower Intermediate(LI) BEGINNING
• Upper Intermediate(UI) DEVELOPING
• Advanced(Ad) EXPANDING
• Attained(At) BRIDGING

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Formal Schooling Cohorts
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Limited / No Formal / Schooling Cohorts
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Formal Schooling - Progress Goals for 2005-2006
Beyond

• The Progress Goal for every Cohort is 59. This
  was computed by taking all of the individual
  Cohort goals (4550836553) added together and
  divided by the 5 Cohorts. Thus accounting for
  all of the gains the students can make as they
  progress.
• Attainment Goals were not changed.
• Limited or No Formal Schooling goals were not
  changed.

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Progress Calculation

• The Progress achieved by the students will be
  credited for all proficiency levels gained from
  the past years level to this years level. This
  can cause a percentage of progress more than
  100, so the limit has been set to 100. For a
  value of 100, the confidence interval will be
  shown as .

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Confidence Intervals
 

• Because NCLB requires a states evaluation of AYP
  to be statistically sound, the United States
  Department of Education (USDOE) allows
  construction of a confidence interval (CI) or
  error band around percentages of students.
• Confidence intervals for student cohorts of
  sufficient size (10 or more students in the
  cohort) will be constructed using a single sample
  t-test. The confidence interval or CI provides a
  test for whether or not the observed percent
  increase or percent proficient is statistically,
  significantly different from the AMAO at the 99
  confidence level.
• Note that the t-test is a two-tailed t-test
  alpha (error) level set at .01 which creates a
  statistical test at the 99 confidence interval.
  Only the positive (upper) range of the confidence
  interval is used for AYP determination.

 
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Now to the AMAO REPORT

• Three styles
• State
• District
• Consortium
• Basic layout is the same for all three.

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Report Title

• Title III English Language Proficiency
• Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO)
• 2006-2007
• State Report
• 2006-2007
• District Report- nnn-Some District Name
• 2006-2007
• Consortium Report CL_Some Consortium Name

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Table Header

• K-12 14 LEP Students with Formal Schooling
• K-12 14 LEP Students with Limited or No Formal
  Schooling

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AMAO REPORT Content - PROGRESS
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AMAO REPORT Content - PROGRESS
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AMAO REPORT Content - ATTAINMENT
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AMAO REPORT Content - Footnotes
Not meeting AMAOs for one or more cohorts for
progress or attainment is considered not having
met AMAOs for the State District
Consortium. Confidence Level is not
computed when Progress Percent is 100. Progress
levels achieved may be a higher count than the
number of students participating Progress
Percent is limited to 100.
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AMAO REPORT Content - Notification
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Questions?

• Contact Edgar Adams
• Office of Assessment and Accountability
• (502) 564 - 9853