October 6, 2006 Curriculum Leaders Assessment Update

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October 6, 2006 Curriculum Leaders Assessment
Update

• Scott E. Smith
• Assistant Director

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• Please hold your questions until the end.

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Opportunity to Learn Grades 9-12

• 2006/2007 and beyond

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A Recent Federal Policy Change

• On Tuesday, September 26th, the USED advised us
  that because Kansas is implementing an OTL
  assessment schedule we have the flexibility of
  retesting non-proficient students.
• This policy has also been allowed in the past
  for states that have exit exams and end-of-course
  tests.  

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Defining the AYP Cohort in the Context of OTL

• The USED has also eliminated the possibility of
  using as an AYP cohort those high school students
  (i.e., a combination of freshmen, sophomores, and
  juniors) who happen to take the assessments on a
  given year. The USED has said instead that AYP
  in the context of OTL must be calculated using
  enrollment of a particular class.

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• What follows, then, in this Power Point is a
  high school OTL plan incorporating two principal
  guidelines from the USED, namely (1) the
  opportunity to retest non-proficient students,
  and (2) the necessity of basing the high school
  AYP calculation on the enrollment of a particular
  class.
• The class enrollment suggested by KSDE is the
  junior class.

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2006/2007 Making the Transition to AYP in the
Context of OTL

• Remember KSDE was forced to mandate testing of
  entire classes in 05/06 in order to ensure enough
  test scores to establish stable cut scores for
  the new state assessments.

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• Mathematics Whose scores would be counted for
  AYP in 06/07?

• 11th grade students who were proficient in 10th
  grade this would be the first group of students
  considered an 11th grade cohort who happened to
  test early. Their scores actually count
  twiceonce in 2006 and once in 2007.
• 11th grade students who were non-proficient as
  10th graders and are tested for the second time
  in 2007 again, these students are part of the
  first 11th grade cohort. These students have a
  second chance to become proficient. If these
  students are not retested, their non-proficient
  scores from 2006 are used in the 06/07
  calculations.
• 11th graders who are tested for the first time.
• NT codes are used for all students not tested by
  11th grade (see new document).
  

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What other students might be tested at the
discretion of the district in 06/07 and beyond?

• Answer
• Any 10th graders thought to be ready their
  scores would be held or banked until these
  students reach the 11th grade.
• Any 9th graders thought to be ready their
  scores would also be held or banked until these
  students reach the 11th graders.

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Whose scores would count for participation in
06/07?

• Answer
• All students enrolled as 11th grade students
  some of these 11th graders will be credited for
  participating in 06/07 whereas others will be
  granted participation credit for having
  participated as sophomores in 05/06. In other
  words, all 11th grade students are counted in the
  participation calculations based on whether or
  not they were tested sometime during 9th, 10th,
  or 11th grades.
• NOTE NT Codes are used for all students not
  tested by 11th grade (see new document).

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Mathematics Who counts for AYP in 07-08 and
beyond?

• Banked scores from 11th grade students who were
  proficient when tested in 10th grade or 9th grade
• Scores for 11th grade students who were
  non-proficient in earlier situations and are
  tested for the second time as juniors.

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What other students could be tested in 07-08 and
beyond at the discretion of the district if they
meet established criteria?

• Answer
• Any 10th graders thought to be ready their
  scores are banked until they are 11th graders.
• Any 9th graders thought to be ready their scores
  are banked until they are 11th graders.

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Who counts for mathematics participation in 07/08
and beyond?

• Answer
• All 11th grade students whether current or banked
  participation
• NT codes are used for all students not tested by
  11th grade (see new document).

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Reading Whose scores count for AYP in 06-07?

• All 11th grade students being tested for the
  first time
• NT codes are used for all students not tested by
  11th grade (see you documents).

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What other students could be tested at the
discretion of the district in 06/07?

• Any 10th graders thought to be ready their
  scores are held or banked until these students
  become 11th graders.
• Any 9th graders thought to be ready their scores
  are banked until they are 11th graders.

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Reading Who counts for participation in 06/07?
Answer -- All 11th graders (current
participation) -- NT codes are used for all
students not tested by 11th grade (see
new document).
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Other Assumptions

• Only students who do not achieve meets standard
  may be retested. The tests must be given in
  separate semesters.
• Twelfth graders are not to be tested through OTL.
  The cohort group must consist of eleventh
  graders only.

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Students who switch schools

• When the student moves to another school after
  having been tested only once, the sending school
  is the AYP school and keeps the score of a
  student scoring proficient. If the student who
  has tested only once is non-proficient, the
  receiving school becomes the AYP school and an NT
  code is used to make the student ineligible
  because he wasnt able to take advantage of his
  second testing opportunity in the sending school.
  In neither case does the banked score count for
  or against the receiving school.
• When the student moves to another school after
  having been tested twice, the score stays with
  the sending school and the receiving school notes
  in KIDS that the sending school is the AYP school.

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Assumptions continued

• Most special circumstances and exceptions can be
  found in the Special Coding Circumstances for
  OTL document.

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Cautions/Next Steps

• No OTL plan can be implemented until it has been
  approved by USED. KSDE intends to work very fast
  on an OTL plan for this year.
• The Feds may require that schools put in place
  some mechanism for remediation to justify the
  opportunity to test twice. Again, though,
  schools would presumably still have the option of
  testing only once during the 11th grade year and
  not making provisions for remediation.

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Sample scenario

• My district tested all sophomores in mathematics
  with PP in 05/06. We want to continue with PP
  tests indefinitely. What will we do in 06/07?
• Answer A PP district will have the option of
  testing (1) all juniors who didnt score meets
  standard or above as sophomores, (2) any 9th and
  10th graders thought to be ready, and (3) any
  juniors who have never been tested.

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KCA TEST BUILDER

• Manuals were e-mailed to Superintendents Test
  Coordinators on Monday, Oct. 1st.
• Additional Manuals can be found at
• www.cete.ku.edu
• Click KCA Test Builder and login
• Questions/Support - 785-864-3537

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Kan-ed Test Builder 3.0

• Empowered Desktop, Learning Station
• Questions/support
• Phone [phone]
• Email lscsupport_at_learningstation.com

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KIDS Data Upload for Writing Answer Sheet
Pre-slugging

• Answer sheet information will be pre-slugged for
  any students in the KIDS system as of 10/18/2006,
  so make sure your students at grades 5, 8 and 11
  are in the KIDS system.
• You still must register the number of students
  for whom Writing Assessment materials are
  requested. Registration for materials needs to
  occur by 10/18/2006.  Go to the CETE website to
  register.