A Closer Look at Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

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A Closer Look at Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

• Michigan Department of Education
• Office of Educational Assessment and
  Accountability
• Paul Bielawski and Linda Howley
• October-November, 2007

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Group Size

• ALL schools are given an AYP status
• Group Size applies to subgroups NOT to all
  students
• Small school procedure
• Improved reliability for small schools
• At least one student must be proficient

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Proficiency Index

• The difference between the percent proficient and
  the grade level target is computed for each grade
  level
• The difference is weighted by the number tested
  at each grade
• The weighted differences are summed across grades
• The school meets the state objective if the
  Proficiency Index is 0 or more

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Index ELA
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Group Size

• Minimum Group Size Across Grades Tested is 30
• If total enrollment is more than 3,000
• 1 Percent of Total Enrollment (district or
  school)
• District AYP
• Maximum subgroup size is 200

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AYP Reliability - Margin of Error

• Provisionally Proficient
• Would the student score the same if tested again?
• Conditional Standard Error of Measurement
• Differs by grade, subject and form
• Applies to partially proficient students on
  MEAP

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Provisionally Proficient
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Student Attendance

• Student attendance is taken from the End-of-Year
  SRSD submission of the prior school year
• Attendance is computed by summing the scheduled
  and actual days of attendance and then dividing
  the sum of the actual by the sum of scheduled

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District AYP

• Treats the district as one big school
• May have different group size
• Only done if district has more than one school

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District AYP

• Elementary Range
• Grades 3-5
• Middle School Range
• Grades 6-8
• High School Range
• Grade 11
• Ranges used for District AYP regardless of School
  Configurations

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District AYP

• Some students are counted as district FAY and
  school LTFAY if the student moves from school to
  school within the district
• District is considered to make AYP if it makes
  AYP at least at one grade range

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Student Data File

• Enrollment
• Students counted from SRSD
• Participation
• MEAP, MME, MI-Access, and ELPA
• Proficiency
• Full Academic Year
• Feeder Codes for grades 3-9

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Student Data File
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Enrollment in Data File

• Enrollment
• Enrollment District Code
• Enrollment Building Code

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Enrollment in Data File
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Participation in Data File

• District Code Where Tested
• Building Code Where Tested
• ELA valid
• Math valid

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Participation in Data File
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Proficiency in Data File

• Feeder Codes (school and district)
• Previous Feeder Codes (school and district)
• FAY designation

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Proficiency in Data File
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Proficiency in Data File
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District FAY
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Corrections to Data File
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NCLB Graduation Rate

• NCLB requires that AYP include a graduation rate
  based on the percentage of students that
• Receive a REGULAR high school diploma
• In the STANDARD number of years
• AYP (including a graduation rate) is required for
  ALL schools

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Michigan Graduation Rates

• Michigan is moving to a cohort method of
  reporting Graduation Rates
• The cohort method follows students across their
  high school careers
• The cohort method will include graduation rates
  for each student group that can be reliably
  measured 30 or more students expected to
  graduate

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Graduation Rates for 2007-08 AYP

• The Graduation/Dropout Review and Comment
  Application from CEPI provides the graduation
  rates used for AYP for the class of 2007
• The application will open in late winter or early
  spring of 2008

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Fifth Year Students

• Districts will be able to designate certain
  students not expected to graduate in four years
• Students with disabilities
• English language learners
• Medically fragile

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AYP and Graduation Rate

• The AYP target graduation rate will remain at 80
  until such time as the cohort rate is implemented
• Improvement in the graduation rate will
  substitute for meeting the target using safe
  harbor

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AYP and Students with Disabilities

• Federal Rules 2003
• 1 cap
• Federal Flexibility 2005
• 2 proposed
• Additional Federal Rules - 2007
• 2 Modified Achievement Standards

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MI-Access Participation and Supported
Independence

• These assessments were counted for AYP
  participation in 2005-06
• U.S. Department of Education denied use of these
  assessments for AYP proficiency in 2005-06
• Revised versions of these assessments were
  administered in the SPRING of 2006-07

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MI-Access Functional Independence

• The Functional Independence assessment is
  considered an alternate assessment, subject to
  the 1 cap on proficient scores.
• MDE also limits proficiency for students that
  took this assessment, based on the students
  primary disability

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Additional Federal Rules

• 2 cap applies to Modified Achievement
  Standards
• reflect reduced breadth or depth of grade-level
  content
• States are NOT be allowed to approve exceptions
  to the 2 cap

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Flexibility Option 1

• The target is reduced by 15 points in cases
  where the SOLE reason that a school does not make
  AYP is the proficiency of students with
  disabilities
• Flexibility Option 1 will cease when federal
  regulations on modified achievement standards are
  finalized and states have the opportunity to
  develop new assessments

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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