2009 Preliminary End-of-Grade (EOG) Results

Presented to the

WSFCS Board of Education

June 23, 2009

End-of-Grade (EOG)

• Over 22,000 WSFCS students tested in grades 3 – 8

Math: Grades 3 – 8 (4th year on current edition)

Reading: Grades 3 – 8 (2nd year on current edition)

Science: Grades 5 & 8 (2nd year on the current edition)

Changes to Testing

• In January 2009, the State Board of Education (SBE) approved the use of Retest 1 scores for calculating ABC performance composites and AYP results for the 2008-09 school yearReading and Math – grades 3-8Science – grades 5 and 8

Eligibility for Retesting

• Any student in grades 3-8 who did not score an Achievement Level III or higher in reading, math, and/or scienceParents of students who scored an

Achievement Level I had the option to waive retesting

• Students on alternate assessments were also required to retest under same conditions

RETESTING NUMBERS

• Schools had approximately a week to remediate students who were not proficient on the retest

• Of the ~55,000 assessments given in grades 3 – 8, 21,000+ of them were below Achievement Level III (~20,000 were retested)

SUMMARY OF RESULTS

  20082009:

BEFORE RETEST

2009 (BEFORE RETEST)

– 2008

2009: AFTER

RETEST

AFTER RETEST

– BEFORE RETEST

2009 (AFTER

RETEST) – 2008

READING(GRADES 3 - 8) 54.0 56.4 +2.4 65.5 +9.1 +11.5

MATH(GRADES 3 - 8) 69.1 71.3 +2.2 79.0 +7.7 +9.9

SCIENCE(GRADES 5 & 8) 44.0 52.5 +8.5 62.2 +9.7 +18.2

MATH EOG: BY GRADE7

3.3

73

.6

70

.9

66

.9

63

.2

66

.2

69

.176

.9

72

.9

72

.8

68

.6

68

.7

66

.6

71

.383

.3

80

.1

80

.4

76

.8

75

.7

79

.0

76

.8

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

EOG3 EOG4 EOG5 EOG6 EOG7 EOG8 ALL

PR

OF

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NC

Y

2008 2009: BEFORE RETEST 2009: AFTER RETEST

MATH BY SUBGROUPS

30.0

40.0

50.0

60.0

70.0

80.0

90.0

100.0

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2009 (AFTER)

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READING EOG: BY GRADE5

2.9 58

.9

54

.4

57

.5

47

.8

52

.5

54

.0

55

.9

58

.3

57

.4

59

.5

52

.6

54

.4

56

.463

.6

66

.5

67

.4

68

.9

63

.9

65

.5

62

.8

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

EOG3 EOG4 EOG5 EOG6 EOG7 EOG8 ALL

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NC

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2008 2009: BEFORE RETEST 2009: AFTER RETEST

READING BY SUBGROUPS

0

10

20

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50

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90

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SCIENCE EOG: BY GRADE

39

.1 49

.0

50

.1 54

.961

.7

62

.6

0.0

10.0

20.0

30.0

40.0

50.0

60.0

70.0

EOG5 EOG8

PR

OF

ICIE

NC

Y

2008 2009: BEFORE RETEST 2009: AFTER RETEST

SCIENCE BY SUBGROUPS

0.0

10.0

20.0

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40.0

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60.0

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90.0

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UPCOMING

• All data are finalized June 30, 2009

• Preliminary AYP results will be released July 21, 2009

• The SBE is expected to approve ABC and AYP results at the August 6 board meeting

SNEAK PEEK:

END-OF-COURSE (EOC) RESULTS

Make-up window is still open through the end of this week

Overall increase of almost 5 percentage points across all EOCs

Demographic data not yet available

Subject N 2008 N 2009* Difference

ALGEBRA I (2007) 4342 58.2 4440 60.2 +2.0

ALGEBRA II (2007/2008) 2970 55.3 2902 65.5 +10.2

BIOLOGY (2008)

3304 64.2 4020 64.6 +0.4

CHEMISTRY (2008) 2275 62.7 1866 71.7 +9.0

CIVICS & ECON. (2006) 3872 62.9 3885 66.7 +3.8

ENGLISH 1 (2007) 4112 70.3 4007 71.7 +1.4

GEOMETRY (2007) 3402 56.0 2786 65.2 +9.2

PHYSICAL SCI. (2008) 1516 38.7 1604 47.8 +9.1

PHYSICS (2008) 602 76.9 604 75.3 -1.6

US HISTORY (2006) 3345 63.5 3409 69.7 +6.2

COMPOSITE   60.9   65.7 +4.8* DATA NOT COMPLETE

PRELIMINARY EOCS

QUESTIONS?