Education YES! Update

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Education YES! Update

• Michigan Department of Education
• Office of Educational Assessment and
  Accountability
• October-November, 2007

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Accountability Components

• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
• No Child Left Behind Act
• State Accreditation
• Education YES!
• Michigan Revised School Code

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Legal Requirements from Code

• Annual Report
• School Improvement Plan
• Core Curriculum
• Assessment of ELA/reading and mathematics grades
  1-5
• High School Courses
• NAEP Participation if Selected

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Education YES!

• Developed in 2002
• Used since 2002-03
• Time to start looking at changes, revisions, and
  improvements
• Student Achievement
• Indicators

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Education YES! to date
Achievement Change
Achievement Status
Indicators
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Education YES! Plan 2003
Achievement Change
Achievement Status
Achievement Growth
Indicators
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Proposed for 2007-08
Achievement Status adjusted for Progress or
Change
Indicators
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Achievement Status

• A score and grade for each subject counted at the
  school
• Uses data for all subjects counted at the school
• Includes assessments assigned by feeder code for
  grades 3-9
• Based on the best of most recent year, most
  recent two years, or most recent three years

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Performance Level Change Designations

• Used to compare the achievement of the same
  students at adjacent grade levels
• Same student from grade 3 to grade 4
• Improvement or decline within a performance level
  is recognized

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Performance Level Change Designations - MEAP
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Predicted Achievement

• A prediction will be made for each content area
  and grade level that were tested in previous
  years and that are not used for Performance Level
  Change Designations
• Science
• Social Studies
• High Schools

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Achievement for Accreditation
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Indicators to be Phased In

• SIF Report
• Rubrics or SAR for NCA schools
• School Improvement Plan
• External Data
• Extra Credit

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MDE/NCA Partnership

• Streamline Reporting
• North Central Association (AdvancEd)
• NCA Schools
• Standards and Assessment Report to MDE in place
  of Rubrics Report
• Other Schools
• Update rubrics report on AdvancEd site

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Indicators of School Performance

• Rubrics developed based on the School Improvement
  Framework
• 90 rubrics were pilot tested in the spring of
  2006
• 2006-07 reporting based on the new rubrics
• 40 rubrics selected for reporting by all schools
• All rubrics are available for school use

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School Improvement Framework Strands

• Teaching for Learning
• Leadership
• Personnel and Professional Learning
• School and Community Relations
• Data and Information Management

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School Improvement Framework

• 40 Evidence Bearing Indicators
• All 5 Strands
• Strand 1 11 Indicators
• Strand 2 10 Indicators
• Strand 3 7 Indicators
• Strand 4 5 Indicators
• Strand 5 7 Indicators

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External Data

• All Levels
• Percent Highly Qualified Teachers
• Student Attendance Rate
• Parent Teacher Conference Attendance
• Instructional Staff turnover rate
• Percent of staff involved in Professional
  Development
• Percent of new teachers mentored
• Years of experience based on date of hire
• Percent of teachers working under permit

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External Data

• Elementary
• District offers school readiness program
• Middle Schools
• Percent of students taking Algebra 1
• High Schools
• Graduation and Dropout Rates
• Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment
• Percent Participating
• Percent Taking and Percent Passing AP exams

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Education YES! Plans 2007-08

• Credit for reporting self-rating, evidence or SAR
  for NCA schools
• External Data
• Extra Credit

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Possible Extra Credit

• Additional Data Collection and Use
• Surveys of parents, staff, students
• Peer Review
• Program Distinction
• Limit on effect of Extra Credit for Grade and
  Score

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Unified AYP and Grade
B
A
A B C D F
B
B (iv)
Education YES! Composite Score
C
C (iii)
D/Alert (ii)
C
Unaccredited (i)
D/Alert (ii)
No AYP
Makes AYP
(i) (iv) Priorities for Assistance
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Education YES Plans

• 2006-07 is a Statewide Pilot
• 2007-08
• Link self-rating and evidence to Action Plan
• Additional External Data
• Extra Credit
• Student Progress related to Achievement Status

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Approval Steps

• State Board November
• Public Hearings December
• State Board February
• Legislative Committees

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Contact Information

• Paul Bielawski
• Office of Educational Assessment and
  Accountability
• Michigan Department of Education
• PO Box 30008
• Lansing, MI 48909
• [phone]
• bielawskip_at_michigan.gov