Proposed State Accountability System September 2014 Brad Neuenswander, Interim Commissioner Kansas State Department of Education

 All students grades 3-8 take the same state assessment.  All students in HS would take the state assessment, unless they had already demonstrated College & Career Readiness on another assessment (ACT, SAT, CPASS, etc.) commonly referred to as the Bouquet Model.  The state assessment would be the SBAC assessment.  The state board approved the Bouquet Model, but chose to have CETE develop the state assessment.

 Approved the Kansas ESEA Flex Waiver for one more year,  Removed our “High Risk” status, meaning we can move forward with our teacher/leader evaluation model, and how we use student growth as a significant factor  Allows us to move the use of student growth as a significant factor to the school year.  Exempts Kansas from reporting 2014 assessment results due to the DDoS situation during the testing window.  Did NOT approve the Kansas Assessment Bouquet Model Performance on ACT, SAT, State Assessment is not comparable. EACH CHILD HAS TO TAKE THE SAME TEST, GRADES 3-8 & HS

-- An 11 th grade cohort was chosen to maximize instructional time in high school in response to AYP targets. (The ELA and Mathematics intended cohort in 2005 was actually grade 10.) -- OTL began as a policy to align test administration with instruction during grades 9, 10, and 11; a double-testing option was added in response to the AYP mandate to make all students proficient by Emphasis was placed on monitoring “Optional,” “Priority,” and “Complete” students for building-level AYP determinations. -- Some schools tested 9 th graders to determine or “diagnose” those who were proficient and whose scores could be “banked” toward making AYP. -- The OTL policy created a three-year footprint comprised of formative assessments, interim assessments, double-testing, banking scores, and monitoring individual student assessment histories while at the same time recognizing only proficient scores for AYP.

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