Overview of Unbridled Learning Accountability Model

1. Overview of Unbridled Learning Accountability Model Bullitt County Public Schools Counselors' Meeting September 2011

2. Close Out of 2010-2011 • Last reporting of data for the Interim Assessment Period (i.e., KCCT results) • Interim Performance Reports (IPR) • No Child Left Behind (NCLB) • Quality Control • August- September • Public Reporting • September 27, 2011

3. The Call for a New Assessment System • Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), enacted in the 2009 Kentucky General Assembly, requires a new public school assessment program beginning in the 2011-2012 school year. • The legislation allowed, with approval by the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), an end-of-course (EOC) assessment program at the high school level.

4. A New System Begins • Fall 2011 is the first test administration of Kentucky’s new assessment and accountability system required in legislation enacted by the 2009 Kentucky General Assembly. • Unbridled Learning: College/Career-Readiness for All replaces CATS. • Kentucky-Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP) replaces the KCCT.

5. Overall Accountability Score • A new regulation, 703 KAR 5:220, School and District Accountability Recognition, Support and Consequences, was passed by the Kentucky Board of Education at its August 4 meeting. • This regulation deals with an overall accountability score for districts and schools based on the three components of Unbridled Learning: • College- and/or Career-Ready for All Next-Generation Learners, • Next-Generation Instructional Programs and Support, and • Next-Generation Professionals

6. Accountability Score • A combined score will be compiled by weighting the three components in the following manner:

7. Overall Accountability Score Phase-In • This year ONLY the Next-Generation Learners component will be used to generate an overall score for accountability. • The following chart provides the overall score phase-in for the three components:

8. Next Generation Learners Percentages

9. Next Generation Learners Accountability Measures • Achievement (Content Areas are reading, mathematics, science, social studies and writing.) • Gap (percentage of proficient and distinguished) for the Non-Duplicated Gap Group for all five content areas • Growth in reading and mathematics (percentage of students at typical or higher levels of growth) • College Readiness as measured by the percentage of students meeting benchmarks in three content areas on EXPLORE at middle school • College/Career-Readiness Rate as measured by ACT benchmarks, college placement tests and career measures • Graduation Rate

10. Performance Measures for Next-Generation Learners

11. Achievement Calculation For each content area: • One point is awarded for each percent of students scoring proficient or distinguished. • One-half point is awarded for each percent of students scoring apprentice. • No points are awarded for novice students.

12. BONUS! • Bonus awarded for distinguished AS LONG AS it does not mask or overcompensate for novice performance. • To calculate the bonus, each percent distinguished earns an additional one-half point, and the percent novice earns a negative one-half point, • The distinguished and novice values are combined, the novice points may offset the distinguished bonus. • If the novice performance completely offsets the distinguished bonus, no points are added to or subtracted from the achievement calculation.

13. Gap Calculation • Goal is 100 percent proficiency for all students. • The distance from that goal or gap is measured by creating a student Gap Group — an aggregate count of student groups that have historically had achievement gaps. • To calculate the combined student Gap Group, non-duplicatedcounts of students who score proficient or higher and are in the student groups will be summed.

14. Growth Calculation • Points are awarded for percentage of students growing at typical or high growth. • For elementary and middle schools,calculation is completed for reading and mathematics where annual testing occurs (grades 3-8). • Schools receive one point for each percent of students that show typical or high growth. • For high schools, points are awarded for percentage of students showing growth when comparing student performance on PLAN (grade 10) compared to ACT (grade 11). • The PLAN and ACT composite scores in reading and mathematics are used for comparison.

15. College/Career-Readiness Rate Calculation • A readiness percentage is calculated by dividing the number of high school graduates who have successfully met an indicator of readiness for college/career with the total number of graduates. • The indicators of readiness includestudent performance on the ACT, completion of college placement tests or attainment of an industry-recognized career certificate.

16. Graduation Rate Point Calculation • Use the Averaged Freshmen Graduation Rate (AFGR) for 2011-2012 and 2012 -2012 • Implement the Cohort Model with the nonacademic release in fall 2013

17. School and District Classifications • The new accountability model holds all schools and districts accountable for improving student performance and creates four performance classifications that determine consequences and guide interventions and supports. • Distinguished • Proficient • Needs Improvement • Persistently Low-Achieving

18. Program Review Accountability • 2011-12 school year – field testing and public reporting of Program Reviews in arts and humanities, practical living/career studies and writing(0%) • 2012-13 school year – inclusion of Program Reviews in arts and humanities, practical living/career studies and writing in accountability calculations; field testing and public reporting of Program Reviews in kindergarten through 3rd grade program evaluation and world language (23%) • 2013-14 school year – inclusion of Program Reviews in kindergarten through 3rd grade program evaluation and world language in accountability calculations (20%)

19. What Feedback Will Students and Schools Receive in Grades 3-8? • Schools will receive both individual student and school-based reports. • Reports will include national percentile scores from the NRT portion of the test as well as Novice, Apprentice, Proficient and Distinguished student performance levels from a combination of the NRT and CRT items.

21. Questions/Comments