A Busy Educational Summer:
WI School Report Card, new Cut
Scores, and Multiple DPI Initiatives
Updates from the latest and greatest DPI trainings.
Eric Larsen
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Major Shifts
Need for Data
Understanding
and Analysis
PALS
Kindergarten
Screener 2012-13
2012-
Accountability
Reform
2011-12 to 2013-14
Common Core
State Standards
Smarter
Balanced
Assessment
Since 2010
2014-15
Student
Information
System
2012-17
Educator
Effectiveness
2014-15
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Data-Informed
Decisions
Support for
Individualized
Learning
High Academic
Standards
Constructive
Accountability
College
&
Career
Ready
Balanced
Assessment
Support for
School
Improvement
Effective
Educators
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Higher Expectations
for all our Students
The Waiver from NCLB has a major
impact on standards, assessment,
accountability, and graduation
requirements
 The goal is for students to navigate
through a challenging curriculum and be
prepared for a college or career upon
high school graduation.
 http://www.dpi.wi.gov/oea/acct/accountabi
lity.html
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More Additional Resources
As we continue to move forward with
unified messaging, DPI is also creating many
documents that can help in these efforts to
explain all these changes to your
constituents.
 Numerous fact sheets, presentations, and
letters are available, with more documents
to come as created.
 http://dpi.wi.gov/sprntdnt/2017_resources.
html is the link on the WI DPI website.
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Standards update:
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Common Core State Standards
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Mathematics
English Language Arts
Disciplinary Literacy
Common Core Essential Elements
Implemented 2014-15
Science- Public draft 2nd review fall of 2012,
implementation spring 2013
 Social Studies- Public Draft mid-November. Final
standards by Summer, 2013
 Science and Social Studies adoption and
implementation will occur later.
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DPI going a new Direction
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Content and Learning Team is dividing
A NEW Common Core Implementation
Team is being created.
◦ Led by Emilie Amundson, Director
◦ Will contain all Math, ELA, Literacy folks.
◦ Diana Kasbaum, Tamara Maxwell plus new hires in
each content area. Also Reading and all Literacy.
Will start building on “Investigations” work and
help develop curricular resources.
Will work with IHEs, CESAs, and other
stakeholders to develop and disseminate curricular
resources.
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New Assessments are coming:
Proficiency will be measured by new assessments:
WKCE  Smarter Balanced (2014-15)
WAA-SwD  Dynamic Learning Maps (2014-15)
ACCESS  ASSETS (2015-16) for ELL students
 New assessments and Common Core instructional
resources will incorporate Universal Design for Learning
principles.
 New Kindergarten assessment, as required in Act 166, is a
screener used to identify struggling readers as soon as
possible.
Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)
developed by the University of Virginia.
PALS reading screener begins immediately
(2012-13)
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PALS Literacy Screener Information
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Wisconsin Act 166 requires that an early literacy screener
be administered to all kindergarten students.
DPI was charged with selecting a screener that:
◦ Is valid and reliable
◦ Assesses phonemic awareness and letter sound
knowledge
◦ Will begin in the 2012-2013 school year
PALS data should be used to inform early childhood
instruction. Screeners are an effective component to an
early warning system.
PALS is a screener. It is not part of the School Report
Card and is not to be used for accountability purposes.
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As we prepare for the
new report card…….
Understand that cut scores have changed.
 Previous cut scores were as low as 13.5
percent to pass a level of proficiency.
 Now, it will take an average 64% in
reading and a 52% in math to meet the
new levels.
 Advanced for both is in the mid 90%
 This new system sets a bar that kids must
pass.
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Cut Scores Comparison: Reading
WKCE Reading Scale Score by Grade
Performance Level
Advanced
NEW
:
Proficient
Basic
Minimal
Performance
READING
OLD:
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade
Tenth Grade
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
507
536
546
573
590
613
644
475
498
503
525
535
548
566
445
462
464
479
486
493
496
270
280
290
300
310
330
350
Minimal Performance
Basic
Proficient
Advanced
270-393
394-429
430-465
466-640
280-395
396-439
440-488
489-650
290-400
401-443
444-496
497-690
300-417
418-456
457-513
514-730
310-433
434-466
467-522
523-780
330-444
445-479
480-538
539-790
350-455
456-502
503-554
555-820
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A visual
for the
OLD
Reading
cut score
table….
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A visual
for the
NEW
Reading
Cut Score
table…..
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New Mathematics Cut Scores
WKCE Mathematics Scale Score by
Grade
NEW
Performance
Level
Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Minimal
Performance
MATHEMATICS
OLD
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
492
438
388
526
474
425
553
501
449
573
524
475
591
544
500
605
558
510
618
574
528
220
240
270
310
330
350
410
Minimal Performance
Basic
Proficient
Advanced
Third Grade
220-391
392-406
407-451
452-630
Fourth Grade
240-420
421-437
438-483
484-650
Fifth Grade
270-444
445-462
463-504
505-680
Sixth Grade
310-463
464-484
485-531
532-700
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade
Tenth Grade
330-479
350-482
410-515
480-503
483-512
516-540
504-554
513-572
541-594
555-710
573-730
595-750
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A visual
for the
OLD
Math Cut
Score
table
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A visual
for the
NEW
Math
Cut
Score
table.
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These changes lead to our new
accountability report card:
Differentiated Accountability and Support
 The new accountability system has been
built around four priority areas, to allow
for differentiated reporting across
multiple measures.
 Instead of only using state test scores to
measure school effectiveness, the new
system uses multiple measures.
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Priority Areas
Student Achievement
An indication of how the students’ level of knowledge and skills in a
school compares against state and national standards.
Student Growth
An indication of how rapidly a school’s students are gaining
knowledge and skills from year to year. This area focuses not on
attainment, but the pace of improvement in student performance, no
matter where students begin. All improvement is treated as a
positive.
Closing Gaps
An indication of how much the school is contributing to the closing
of statewide achievement gaps.
On-track to Graduation/Postsecondary Readiness
An indication of how successfully students are achieving educational
milestones that predict postsecondary success.
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Accountability
Index
A comprehensive accountability index has replaced the AYP pass-fail
system. AYP reports are gone; accountability reporting will now be done
with School Report Cards (2011-12).
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The index is a composite of sub-scales that measure performance across
four priority areas :
Student Achievement
Student Growth
Closing Gaps
On-track to Graduation/Postsecondary Readiness
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The index score is on a 0–100 scale. Sub-scale scores as well as the index
score will be reported to enhance transparency and differentiation.
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Student Engagement indicators, if missed, result in a deduction to index
score
Test Participation Rate
Absenteeism Rate
Dropout Rate
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Accountability Ratings
schools will receive:
Reward
School
83-100
Significantly
Exceeds
Expectations
Local
Improvement
Efforts
63-72.9
Reward
School
73-82.9
Exceeds
Expectations
High Performing
Meets
Expectations
Where most schools
will be
State
Interventions
53-62.9
Meets Few
Expectations
State
Interventions
Many Priority
Schools
52.9 and below
Fails to
Meet
Expectations
Low Performing
A new Change:
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The report card will be
split into two separate
documents.
This page will be the
school report card.
◦ Front will be this page
◦ Back will include simple
explanations of data.
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The additional 12 pages
will be call the report
card detail
◦ Numbers to explain the
report card indices.
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New Elementary/
Middle Report Card
Overall School Score
Based on 4 Indices
Categories
School information
and sub-group
information
All previous years
WKCE scores
converted to new
NAEP cut scores for
five years
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Continued
The four priority areas are
scored as follows:
• Student Achievement- 25%
• Student Growth- 25%
• Closing Gaps- 25%
• On track indicators:
• Elementary
• 20% attendance
• 5% 3rd grade WKCE
Reading Scores
• Middle
• 20% attendance
• 5% 8th grade WKCE
Mathematics Scores
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Student Engagement
Indicators
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The old RED flags
School scores will face
deductions
Test participation of the lowest
subgroup
◦ 3 year average
◦ must be over 95%
◦ All students, not just FAY
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Absenteeism Rate
◦ No more than 13%
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Dropout Rate
◦ No more than 6%
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The High School
Report Card
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A few small differences:
Scoring:
◦ Student Achievement:
37.5%
◦ Student Growth 0%
◦ Closing Gaps: 37.5%
◦ On Track/ Post
Secondary Readiness:
25%
 20% is the graduation
rate
 5% ACT Participation
and Performance
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Report Card
Detail
Student
Achievement
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A three year average
for Math and Reading
◦ Different weights
for scores
 Advanced: 1.5
 Proficient: 1
 Basic: .5
◦ Weighted
 Current year 1.5
 Last year 1
 2 years ago .5
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Report Card
Detail
Student Achievement, Cont.
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Sub Group data
Breaks out each of your sub
groups and shows exact
percentages of each in the Math
and Reading Advanced, Proficient,
Basic and Minimal categories.
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Report Card
Detail
Student Growth
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Only Elementary and Middle School
Looking at a trajectory of expected
performance of students
Will give points for growth across
categories
◦ A point for every category you move up
◦ Ex: Minimal to Advanced earns 3 points,
proficient to Advanced earns 1point.
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Will deduct points for regression
◦ Only proficient to basic/ minimal
◦ Ex: Proficient falling to minimal loses 2
points
◦ Basic students who fall will lose points in
an overall complex formula
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Green is Good, Red is bad.
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Report Card
Detail
Student Growth
◦ Breaks out
growth by subgroup
◦ Displays the
amount of kids
increasing and
declining in each
category.
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