According to KIPP, last school year, more than 70 percent of Morfin's
class scored proficient or advanced in English on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress state tests, while only 37 percent of California's Latino fifth - graders and 65 percent of their white counterparts achieved the same results.
Based on preliminary results from the spring 2000 state test, 88 percent of the school's first 8th grade
class scored proficient or above in language arts (compared with 47 percent citywide), and 66 percent scored proficient or above in math (versus 21 percent citywide).
Powell keeps an ANet data wall in its front lobby and records how many youngsters in
each class score proficient or advanced in math and in language arts for each ANet assessment cycle.
Not exact matches
With this metric, educators can track the percentage of students in a
class, school, or district who are «
proficient» (
scoring at or above a certain designated baseline), with hopes that this percentage will eventually rise to 100.
By contrast, of the 272 students in the remaining 13 algebra
classes (that didn't employ the CREATE model), only 18 students
scored at the
proficient level and had an average
score of 280.
Yet when they left my
class, 71 percent of them had
scored basic or above on the algebra CST, and 37 percent of them had
scored at the
proficient level.
Not one of my students had
scored at the
proficient level, and most had received a D or F in their previous math
class.
Of the 87 students using the CREATE model in my four algebra
classes, 33 students
scored at the
proficient level on the algebra CST and had an average
score of 330.
In reality, a teacher could have a
class full of students who did not
score proficient, yet that same teacher could have the highest VAM in the school or district.
Despite years of state budget cuts and rising
class sizes that now average 30 or more, 83 percent of Laurel Street K - fifth grade students
scored at the
proficient or higher level on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent
scored that high on the state math test.
Despite years of state funding cuts and
classes that average 30 or more kids apiece, an amazing 83 percent of Laurel Street's students
scored at
proficient or higher on a recent state language - arts exam, and 91 percent
scored that high on the math test.