Connecticut State Department of Education

Connecticut Assessment Forum – August 13 & 14, 2012

Bureau of Student Assessment

The School and District Performance Indexes

Additional Details

Gilbert Andrada Ph. D.

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New Indicators

Individual Performance Indicator (IPI) School Performance Indicator (SPI) District Performance Indicator (DPI) Connecticut Performance Indicator

(CPI)

A group size of 20 or more is required to calculate a valid indicator.

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Groups Subgroups

Black Hispanic Special Education English Language

Learner Free/Reduced

Price Lunch

Subjects Mathematics Reading Writing* Science (5, 8, 10)

*Skills Checklist Communication

= Writing

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Types of Indicators Subject-IPI – The transformation of a valid

achievement level in a particular subject CMT & CAPT : {100, 67, 33, 0} MAS & Skills Checklist: {100, 50, 0}

Subject-SPI – The mean of subject-IPIs for a school (goes across grades)

IPI – The mean of a student’s subject-IPIs SPI/DIP – The mean of a school’s/district’s

IPIs

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The 3% Cap The target is Goal and is applied by

subject 1% of Skills Checklist Users 2% of MAS Users A combination of these not to exceed 3% The overage, selected numerically by

SASID, is converted from a 100 to a 0. Developing a monitoring system to flag

over-use.

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Who is initially included? SPI – Students who have been in the

school since October 1 DPI – Students who have been in the

district since October 1 Includes the Since-Oct 1 Outplaced

Students Includes the Since-Oct 1 Program

Students

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Absent Students who are absent from a test

are… …not included in the achievement

calculation …included in the participation

calculation as non-participants (in the denominator, but not the numerator)

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Special Education Flexibility Enrollment in Special Education (has an

IEP) is an indicator that is collected as part of the testing file

Students currently enrolled as Special Education students and students who had been enrolled as Special Education as indicated on the testing files from either of the two previous years in the same district are included as members of the Special Education Subgroup

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ELL Flexibility Enrollment as an English Language

Learner is an indicator that is collected as part of the testing file

Students currently enrolled as ELL students and students who had been enrolled as ELL students as indicated on the testing files from either of the two previous years in the same district are included as members of the ELL Subgroup

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ELL Exempt ELL Exempt students who take the

Mathematics test are… … not included in the achievement

calculation in Math … included as part of the participation

calculation in Math as participants

This exemption is applied to the Reading, Writing, and Science Tests

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Medically Exempt Students who are medically exempt

for a subject test are … … not included in an achievement

calculation … not included in the participation

calculation

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Left Blank Left Blank is a designation given by a

proctor (i.e. marked on the physical test form) who administers a subject test to a student

Left Blank subject tests are … …included in the achievement

calculation as Below Basic …included as participants

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Void Tests are voided when something

unexpected happens. There are very few of these, say, under 5 a year.

Students who have a subject test that is voided are… … not included in the achievement

calculation … included in the participation

calculation

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Non-Scorable Non-Scorable is a designation given by

the scoring center professionals about a subject test

A valid inference about an achievement level in that subject cannot be made

Non-Scorable subject tests are … …not included in the achievement

calculation …included as participants

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Moved Out of State This is indicated by subject test Students who leave the state are …

… not included in an achievement calculation

… not included in the participation calculation

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Repeaters Students who repeat grades 3 – 8 or 10

are… …included the achievement calculation …included in the participation calculation

Grade 11 or 12 CAPT re-testers are… … not included in the achievement

calculation … not included in the participation

calculation

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Withdraw Grade 10 students who were

indicated as “Withdrawn” for the administration of a subject test are … … not included in the achievement

calculation … not included in the participation

calculation

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Achievement Calculation Valid test scores are included in the

subject-SPIs – the average of subject-IPIs The average of IPIs (transformations of

valid test scores) is used to calculate an IPI

The average of a school’s worth of IPIs is the SPI

The average of a district’s worth of IPIs is the DPI

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Participation Calculation Subject participation (of participation-

included students) is the ratio of non-absent to total.

SPI and DPI participation rates (of participation-included students) are the ratio of the number of students with at least one valid test score to total.

SPI and DPI participation rates are higher than subject participation rates

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DPI Report With Targets

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Graduation Rates

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SPI Report With Targets