Sentences with phrase «proficiency cut scores»

But the actual establishment of academic standards, the establishment of proficiency cut scores, how states define those things, and the matching of standards with assessments, thats all state business.

Much higher proficiency cut scores will also require states to rethink their approach to school accountability.

Playing games with proficiency cut scores provided much of the impetus behind Common Core.

In one scenario, a large number of states may adopt the standards in name only, develop their own tests, and set their own proficiency cut scores.

The dependence of growth - model results on proficiency cut scores.

The use of mean scores places the focus on improving the academic achievement of all students within a school and not just those whose performance is around the state proficiency cut score (Center for Education Policy, 2011).

States set proficiency cut scores, require interventions, and certify teachers.

Using data from state tests and NWEA's Measures of Academic Progress, our partners at NWEA estimated the «proficiency cut scores» of most of the states in the country.

The proficiency cut score has acted as a kind of lens to focus incentives and accountability on just one segment of students.

As Morgan Polikoff and other accountability scholars have argued, «a narrow focus on proficiency rates incentivizes schools to focus on those students near the proficiency cut score, while an approach that takes into account all levels of performance incentivizes a focus on all students.»

For example, a narrow focus on proficiency rates incentivizes schools to focus on those students near the proficiency cut score, while an approach that takes into account all levels of performance incentivizes a focus on all students.

Moreover, schools with large proportions of students well - below the proficiency cut score are given credit for moving students to higher levels of performance even if still below the cut score (Linn, 2003).

Rather than presenting performance as the proportion of students who have met the minimum - proficiency cut score, states could present the average (mean) score of students within the school and the average performance of each subgroup of students.

The benefits of using such an index, relative to using the proportion of proficient students in a school, is that it incentivizes a focus on all students, not just those around an assessment's proficiency cut score (Linn, Baker, & Betebenner, 2002).

This proposal would also undoubtedly incentivize LEAs and schools to focus only on those students whose achievement falls near the proficiency cut scores instead of encouraging improvement among all students.

He notes that the threshold «encouraged schools to focus their energies on students just below this proficiency cut score» since raising scores for students above that line «would not help the schools» accountability ratings.»