NH DoE UPDATE: AYP and NECAP

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NH DoE UPDATE AYP and NECAP

• NH School Administrators Association
• Tuesday, September 20, 2005
• Tim Kurtz, NH DoE
• 271-3846 TKurtz_at_ed.state.nh.us

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NECAP Updates

• Resource materials are available at
• www.ed.state.nh.us.
• Testing Materials are in schools now.
• Direct Questions to Service Center
• 877-632-7774

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NECAP - Resource Materialshttp//www.ed.state.nh.
us/education/doe/organization/curriculum/NECAP/NEC
AP.htm

• Student Support and Testing Materials
• Practice Tests and Resource Materials
• Tips for Students
• Math Reference Sheets
• NECAP Multiplication Table and NECAP Hundreds
  Chart
• Policy Material
• Accommodations, Guidelines, and Procedures
  Administrator Training Guide
• Calculator Policy
• Request for Medical Exemption and Other
  Accommodation Forms
• 2005 NECAP Principal/Coordinator Administrator
  Manuals
• Reference Materials
• 2005 Test Administration Workshop Presentation
• GLE and GLE Support Material
• Writing Rubrics
• Sample Parent Letter

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NECAP - Calendar

• Sept 26 Labels will be shipped
• October 3 Last day for other accommodations
• (Gaye Fedorchak 271-7383)
• October 325 Testing Window
• October 25 Last day for medical exemption
• (Tim Kurtz 271-3846)
• October 26 UPS pickup
• November Scoring
• December Append student demographic data
• January Standard Setting
• February Assessment Reports

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NECAP Who should be tested

• All students enrolled in the school as of October
  1, 2005
• except students who
• completed the Alternate Assessment for the 2004
  2005 school year,
• are new to the U.S. after October 1, 2004 and
  are LEP\ELL (They do not have to take the Reading
  and Writing tests. They must take the Math test),
  or
• have state-approved special considerations prior
  to the conclusion of state testing.

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NECAP Teacher Judgments

• Based on what the student is prepared to do at
  the beginning of the grade level rather than what
  the student has done in previous grades.
• Evaluation of performance at each level based on
  GLEs at current grade. Advanced will not mean a
  student is above grade level.
• Include two components gaps in students
  prerequisite knowledge and the likelihood that
  instruction in addition to normal review of
  material is required to fill those gaps.

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For Teacher Use Only field

• For teachers to classify their students
  classroom performance into one of four
  achievement levels
• Front cover of Student Answer Booklet
• This information must be completed after testing
• Additional information and instructions for
  completing this field will be shipped with test
  materials

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NECAP Optional Reports

• This grid is designed to allow schools to connect
  data of their choosing to student results.
• It will be returned as part of an electronic
  student-level data file.
• This is totally optional and confidential.

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NECAP - Calculators

• Calculators are permitted on Sessions II and III
  of the mathematics test.
• No test item requires the use of a calculator,
  and most of the computation appears within
  Session I.
• Schools may prohibit the use of calculators at a
  grade level.
• Review Calculator Policy on our website.

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NECAPSASIDs and Student Labels

• SASIDs
• EVERY student MUST have a valid SASID encoded on
  his or her booklet either by printed student
  label or by bubbling
• Student Labels
• 283 schools requested 80212 labels for NECAP
  testing
• An additional 13077 labels were produced from
  educated guesses connected to the initial SASID
  requests.
• Affix labels that make sense, throw away the ones
  that dont
• Hand Bubble in Name, Date of Birth, and SASID for
  the rest
• Grades 3 4 will receive one label per student
• Grades 5 through 8 will receive two labels per
  student

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AYP HS and Attendance

• Oct 18 1000 AM Release of AYP reports for High
  Schools based on May 2005 NHEIAP and 2004-2005
  NH-Alt results and Attendance reports for
  elementary and middle schools
• Electronic reports on NHDoE website
• Available for district review on Oct. 17
• 30 day appeal process begins on Oct. 19

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AYP Changes to Current Def

• Participation rate 1-, 2-, or 3- year average
• Separate data reports and Final Designations
• AMOs go up this year
• Reading (from 70 to 77)
• Mathematics (from 52 to 64)
• 2 Rule
• Safe harbor calculate decrease, then round to
  nearest whole number, then compare to 10

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AYP All other reports

• April, 2006 Issue AYP reports for elementary and
  middle schools based on October NECAP and
  2004-2005 NH-Alt results , and reports at all
  levels for districts

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AYP Current Work

• An External AYP Task Force is meeting to make
  recommendations to the Department. Work to date
  includes
• Keep racial categories as is
• Keep attendance rate as elementary indicator
• Top two levels will show proficiency
• Participation assigned to testing school
• Performance assigned to teaching school
• Minimum n for Performance of 30
• FAY October 1 of previous school year
• Modified Index System partial credit for scores
  below proficiency

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AYP Current Work

• Remaining issues to discuss
• Safe harbor, possibly with confidence intervals
• New starting points and AMOs based on NECAP
  scores
• Out of District Students
• Private schools
• Public schools
• New HS District Reports vs. Old NH Reports

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AYP Work of Next year

• Measures of Growth
• at the student and school levels
• Neither Writing nor Science is scheduled to be a
  part of AYP at this time.