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ILLUMINATING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESSState Report Cards for Districts and Schools
Objectives
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Today’s webinar is designed to address several questions:
Why should your state incorporate college and career readiness (CCR) indicators into its district and school report cards?
What are CCR indicators and how can your state calculate them?
How can your state report CCR indicators to build understanding and inspire action among parents and the public?
We will be joined by Jon Gubera, Chief Accountability Officer, Indiana Department of Education.
We will also share a new sample College and Career Readiness Report Card that Achieve has developed.
WHY YOUR STATE SHOULD INCORPORATE CCR INDICATORS INTO DISTRICT AND SCHOOL REPORT CARDS
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The College- and Career-Ready Agenda
Report cards are powerful levers to focus attention on CCR outcomes
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Visibility of states’ school and district report cards, particularly for parents
Value that students and parents place on CCR (e.g. entrance into entry-level, credit-bearing
courses in post-secondary institutions without need for remediation)
Focus attention on improving CCR outcomes
Achieve has designed a sample report card to jumpstart a conversation in ADP Network states about incorporating CCR indicators into district and school report cards.
Focuses on actionable data
Includes academic as well as broader indicators
Provides comparisons to other schools
Illuminates subgroup-level performance
Suggests questions that parents and the public can ask about student performance strategies
You will be able to find it here: http://www.achieve.org/adp-meetings-and-webinars
Achieve’s sample CCR report card
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WHAT ARE CCR INDICATORS AND HOW CAN YOUR STATE CALCULATE THEM?
CCR indicators fall along a continuum of readiness
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Progressing Toward CCR Meeting CCR Exceeding CCR
ACHIEVEMENT
Students with “On-track to CCR” performance on
assessments in middle and early in high school
Students in a graduating cohort with “CCR” level of
performance on state anchor or college
readiness assessments
Graduates with college-level performance on AP or
IB exams
COURSE COMPLETION AND SUCCESS
High school students, by grade, with timely credit
accumulation along a CCR course of study
Students in a graduating cohort who complete a CCR course of study
Graduates who have completed AP, IB, or dual
enrollment courses
ATTAINMENT
9th grade students with “on-track” to graduation status
based on grades and attendance in core courses
in first grading period
Students in a graduating cohort who receive a
college and career ready diploma
Students in a graduating cohort who receive industry
certification
Graduates who enroll into postsecondary education
with no need for remediation
Graduates who successfully complete at
least one year of postsecondary education
Source: Adapted from Measures that Matter: Making College and Career Readiness the Mission of High Schools, Achieve and the Education Trust, 2008
EXAMPLE: Hawai’i College and Career Readiness Indicators Reports
9Source: Hawai’i P-20 in partnership with the Hawai’i Department of Education and University of Hawaii, http://www.p20hawaii.org/indicators_report.html
EXAMPLE: Virginia’s report cards include CTE and AP/dual enrollment indicators
10Source: Virginia School, School Division, and State Report Cards, https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard
The way states calculate CCR indicators matters for results
Numerators should be criterion-referenced where possible (e.g. “percent of students meeting the CCR benchmark” rather than average score) to better capture changes in readiness
Denominators should include all students, preferably all students in a graduating cohort (e.g. the 2012-13 graduating cohort rather than just students taking an assessment) to improve the stability of the indicator and its ability to portray the full picture of readiness for students in the school
This may mean that your state will need to work with data providers to refine the way they report data to you.
Some guidance for calculating CCR indicators
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Definitions for CCR indicators
12Source: Achieve’s sample CCR report card
HOW CAN YOUR STATE REPORT CCR INDICATORS TO BUILD UNDERSTANDING AND INSPIRE ACTION AMONG PARENTS AND THE PUBLIC?
State report cards use a number of strong techniques
Reporting the number of students as well as percentages
Building in comparisons - vertical comparisons such as school to district to state, horizontal comparisons such as school rankings or showing where the school’s performance lies upon a spectrum, or trends over time
Highlighting disparities among student groups
Some data and functionality may need to live online (along a spectrum of static to interactive reports) while others can translate to a paper report that might be given to parents
Reporting techniques can build understanding and raise the sense of urgency
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EXAMPLE: Texas uses student numbers to explain graduation rates
15Source: Texas 2010 Campus Graduation Summary, http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/cgi/sas/broker
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Achieve’s sample CCR report card includes numbers of students participating in certain pathways
Source: Achieve’s sample CCR report card
EXAMPLE: Indiana compares school to state and district performance
17Source: Indiana COMPASS reports, http://compass.doe.in.gov/dashboard/collegereadiness.aspx?type=state
EXAMPLE: Illinois shows where student performance falls along a spectrum
18Source: Illinois Interactive Report Card, http://iirc.niu.edu/
EXAMPLE: The Chicago Tribune uses a different method to show the distribution
19Source: Illinois Interactive Report Card, http://iirc.niu.edu/
EXAMPLE: Michigan displays ACT CCR benchmark data over time
20Source: Michigan School Data, https://www.mischooldata.org/CareerAndCollegeReadiness/ACTCollegeReadiness/Trend.aspx
EXAMPLE: greatschools.org shows three-year trend data for each subject
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EXAMPLE: Indiana compares CCR outcomes across student groups
22Source: Indiana COMPASS reports, http://compass.doe.in.gov/dashboard/graduates.aspx?type=state
Adding “judgments” can enhance understanding of performance patterns
Traffic-lighting – color-coding in categories such as red, yellow, green
Presenting performance data against goals and benchmarks
Ratings or classifications – these may include those used in the state accountability system, or be defined separately for measures used only in the report card
Presenting the data in context
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Achieve’s sample CCR report card includes judgments on annual improvement and against annual performance goals
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Use focus groups and surveys to get feedback on report card prototypes, from the content to delivery.
Draw on these interactions to…
Identify priority questions
Narrow the list of priority indicators
Refine data display techniques
Develop narratives to explain performance or better define indicators
Clarify what can be interactive versus what should be in a static document
Engaging users in the process
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ILLUMINATING COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESSState Report Cards for Districts and Schools