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6 Adequate Yearly Progress
Pages 85-90

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From page 85...
... However, these provisions required schools only to show an upward trend, not to set a goal of enabling all students to reach challenging standards. And in many cases the requirements for improvement were modest; in some districts, any improvement at all was considered adequate.
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From page 86...
... This approach depends heavily on the quality of the measures of school performance. As noted in Chapter 4, using average scores to determine school performance can provide misleading inferences.
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From page 87...
... Performance measures tend to be more expensive than traditional multiple-choice tests, and annual testing of each student with performance measures would add up. In addition, performance measures often rate student performance according to qualitative characteristics, which are difficult to place on a linear scale yet a linear scale might be needed to show growth from year to year (Baker and Linn, 1997~.
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From page 88...
... · Measures of adequate yearly progress should include disaggregated results by race, gender, economic status, and other characteristics of the student population. · The criterion for adequate yearly progress should be based on evidence from the highest-performing schools with significant proportions of disadvantaged students.
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From page 89...
... However, the state's criteria rely solely on test performance, rather than on the use of multiple measures, and it judges school performance based on average performance, rather than on the performance of subgroups within schools. Missouri's system for determining adequate progress, meanwhile, explicitly encourages schools to narrow the achievement gap between high-performing and low-performing students, not just raise the overall average.
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From page 90...
... The program consists of assessments in mathematics, communications arts, and science; social studies, health and physical education, and fine arts are expected to be added in the coming years. The state board of education has designated five levels of performance on the assessment "advanced," "proficient," "nearing proficient," "progressing," and "step 1" (lowest)
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