Mississippi Principal Evaluation
System (MPES):
Goal-Setting and Quantification
August 2014
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Objectives Today
• Accessing Website Resources
– Where to Find MPES Materials
– How to Sign Up for the MPES Listserv
• Setting MPES Goals
– ELA and Math Goals
– Organizational Goals
– Career and Technical Education (CTE) Goals
• Quantifying MPES Goals
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Accessing
Website Resources
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Website Resources
 Check the MDE’s Office of Educator Quality website
frequently for materials and announcements about MPES
2014-2015
Access it two ways:
1. Directly at http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/educator-evaluations
2. Find it under MDE Hot Topics (Note that this office is not yet listed in
the departmental drop-down menu)
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Website Resources, Cont.
 Subscribe to the Office of Educator Quality’s opt-in listserv:
http://fyt.mde.k12.ms.us/subscribe/subscribe_mpes.html
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Setting MPES Goals
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MPES Components
Organizational
Goals (2)
20%
Circle Survey
30%
Mathematics
Goal
25%
English
Language
Arts Goal
25%
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S-M-A-R-T Goals Are…
S – Specific and strategic (Who? What?)
M – Measurable (How much? How often?
How many?)
A – Action-oriented, attainable (Requires
action? Realistic?)
R – Relevant, rigorous, and resultsoriented
T – Time-bound and tracked (By when?)
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals
For all administrators who receive a school accountability report
and have tested grades, schoolwide goals will be based on the
overall ELA and Mathematics points obtained in the school
accountability model.
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
234.8 Total
ELA Points
245.0 Total
ELA Points
Level 4: 245.1 or above
Level 3: 239.6-245.0
Level 2: 234.9-239.5
Level 1: 234.8 or below
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
• Principals of elementary schools that do not receive a
school accountability report or do not have tested grades
(e.g., K-2nd grades) may use a statewide assessment (i.e.,
MKAS2) or nationally normed universal screener (e.g.,
AIMSweb, STAR) to set ELA and Math goals.
• Principals of schools that receive school accountability
reports but contain tested and non-tested grades may opt
to use a statewide assessment or nationally normed
universal screener to set an ELA goal and a Math goal in
addition to the school accountability report goals.
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
16.4 ACT
English
245.0
16.8 ACT
English
Level 4: Above 16.8
Level 3: 16.7-16.8
Level 2: 16.5-16.6
Level 1: 16.4 or below
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
Q: Why is this option not available for principals
of schools with all tested grades?
A: Purpose of the additional goal is to allow
goals to be more schoolwide in nature and to
reflect a principal’s actual impact on students in
the 2014-2015 academic year
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
“And/Or” Options
• If setting an additional goal, principals should:
Discuss with the supervisor the merit of meeting
one or both goals
Agree whether one or both goals will be required
to be met as part of the goal score
If one goal is to be met, select “or”
If both goals are to be met, select “and”
• This flexibility is at the district’s discretion
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
“And/Or” Option
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
ELA Accountability Points
Level 4: 245.1 or above
Level 3: 239.6-245.0
Level 2: 234.9-239.5
Level 1: 234.8 or below
ACT English Subscore
Level 4: Above 16.8
Level 3: 16.7-16.8
Level 2: 16.5-16.6
Level 1: 16.4 or below
Level 3 Performance with “Or”:
Administrator must hit one of these goals
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Setting MPES English Language Arts
and Mathematics Goals, Cont.
ELA Accountability Points
Level 4: 245.1 or above
Level 3: 239.6-245.0
Level 2: 234.9-239.5
Level 1: 234.8 or below
ACT English Subscore
Level 4: Above 16.8
Level 3: 16.7-16.8
Level 2: 16.5-16.6
Level 1: 16.4 or below
Level 2 Performance with “AND”:
Administrator must meet both goals. If only one
goal is reached, the lower score applies.
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MPES Components – CTE Directors
Career and technical education (CTE) directors
will set schoolwide goals based on:
• Student growth goal for Year 1 students (25%)
• Student growth goal for Year 2 students (25%)
These goals will be based on end-of-term CTEapproved assessment data.
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MPES Components – CTE Directors,
Cont.
Sample CTE goal may look like this:
By the end of the 2014-2015 academic year, I will increase
the number of Year 1 students who receive passing scores
on the CTE-approved end-of-term assessment from 16% to
26%. “Passing” is defined as earning a 60 or above on the
MS-CPAS2 assessment; “passing” for programs assessed
using national certifications is defined as the student
successfully receiving the certification.
CTE directors use the customized forms in the Process
Manual appendix.
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Setting Organizational Goals
The administrator and supervisor identify two
organizational goals that target the school’s
areas in greatest need of improvement:
• Can be schoolwide or target subgroup(s)
• Can be based on students and/or staff
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Setting Organizational Goals, Cont.
You have to know where you are to know where
you want to go.
• Review your current situation: Where is my
school now?
• Review your current and past data
- Public reports (e.g., accountability, assessment, and
enrollment data)
- School/district/state report cards
- Individual student data
- Other relevant data
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Setting Organizational Goals, Cont.
Organizational goals shall not be identical
to the English Language Arts and
Mathematics goals.
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Remember: MPES Goals
• ELA, Math, and Organizational Goals should
be realistic
• ELA and Math goals for assistant principals
should be identical to the head principal’s
goals, as they are schoolwide ELA and Math
goals
• Be careful in quantifying goals
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Quantifying Goals
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Goal Quantification
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•
•
•
•
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Measurable (quantifiable targets)
Ranges/degrees of achievement
Mutually exclusive/contiguous
Realistic/based on data
Attainable
Agreed upon by school administrator and
supervisor
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Quantifying a Goal Is:
1.
Restating the goal as a
series of numerical targets
that indicate the degree to
which you will have been
successful at reaching
your goal(s) at the end of
the specified time period
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Quantifying a Goal Is:
2.
An agreement between the
school administrator and
the supervisor regarding
how his/her achievement
toward the goal will be
scored
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Quantifying a Goal
Let’s walk through the steps of quantifying a
goal.
Goal: Based on last year’s school accountability
report, my school of 200 tested students earned
a total of 185.0 points for Mathematics. My goal
for this year is to increase the total number of
points earned for Mathematics on my school
accountability report to 210.3.
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Quantifying a Goal, Cont.
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Remember the Scoring Metric
Rubric:
Develop Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Select the
Mathematics
Metric(s).
State the
Mathematics
Goal(s).
Level 2 – Some but insufficient progress
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•
Based on last year’s school
accountability report, my school of 200
tested students earned a total of 185.0
points for Mathematics. My goal for this
year is to increase the total number of
points earned for Mathematics on my
school accountability report to 210.3.
Quantify Your Mathematics Goal(s).
toward goal
Level 1 – Little or no progress toward goal
ACT Score in Mathematics
Other Statewide or Nationally Normed Assessment
Level 4 – Exceeds goal
Level 3 – Approaches or attains goal
Universal Screener
School Accountability Report
Level 4
Performance
Range
AND
OR
Step 1: Start with your numerical
Level 3
Performance
Range
goal and put it on the right side of
Level 2
Performance
Range
AND
the Level 3 range
Level 1
Performance
Range
AND
AND
-210.3
OR
OR
OR
This action indicates that the high
end of the Level 3 range is when
you attain your numerical goal
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Quantifying a Goal, Cont.
• Step 2: Move to the Level
4 range. Write “Greater
than (numerical goal)”
• This means that if you
exceed your goal, you will
receive a 4 for that
numerical goal
Develop Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Universal Screener
Select the
Mathematics
Metric(s).
School Accountability Report
State the
Mathematics
Goal(s).
Based on last year’s school
accountability report, my school of 200
tested students earned a total of 185.0
points for Mathematics. My goal for this
year is to increase the total number of
points earned for Mathematics on my
school accountability report to 210.3.
ACT Score in Mathematics
Other Statewide or Nationally Normed Assessment
Quantify Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Level 4
Performance
Range
Greater than 210.3
Level 3
Performance
Range
-210.3
AND
OR
AND
OR
Level 2
Performance
Range
AND
Level 1
Performance
Range
AND
OR
OR
Level 4 – Exceeds goal
Level 3 – Approaches or attains goal
Level 2 – Some but insufficient progress toward goal
Level 1 – Little or no progress toward goal
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Quantifying a Goal, Cont.
•
•
Step 3: Go to the Level 1 range and
fill in “less than or equal to (last
year’s number of points or the data
listed in your goal)”
The MPES focuses on increasing
student outcomes, so improvement is
imperative. Therefore, last year’s
data represent the higher end (right
side) of the range for Level 1
Develop Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Universal Screener
Select the
Mathematics
Metric(s).
School Accountability Report
State the
Mathematics
Goal(s).
Based on last year’s school
accountability report, my school of 200
tested students earned a total of 185.0
points for Mathematics. My goal for this
year is to increase the total number of
points earned for Mathematics on my
school accountability report to 210.3.
ACT Score in Mathematics
Other Statewide or Nationally Normed Assessment
Quantify Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Level 4
Performance
Range
Greater than 210.3
Level 3
Performance
Range
-210.3
AND
OR
AND
OR
Level 2
Performance
Range
Level 1
Performance
Range
AND
OR
AND
Less than or equal to 185.0
OR
Level 4 – Exceeds goal
Level 3 – Approaches or attains goal
Level 2 – Some but insufficient progress toward goal
Level 1 – Little or no progress toward goal
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Quantifying a Goal, Cont.
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Develop Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Step 4: Move to Level 2 and put the next
available quantity above last year’s data on
Select the
Mathematics
Metric(s).
Make sure that there are no gaps; these
State the
Mathematics
Goal(s).
should be contiguous, meaning that there is
no score that is possible that is not covered
in ONE of the ranges (and one only)
•
After this step, you have the only two
numbers remaining in the ranges to be
completed that are left to district discretion
School Accountability Report
ACT Score in Mathematics
Other Statewide or Nationally Normed Assessment
the left side of the range
•
Universal Screener
Based on last year’s school
accountability report, my school of 200
tested students earned a total of 185.0
points for Mathematics. My goal for this
year is to increase the total number of
points earned for Mathematics on my
school accountability report to 210.3.
Quantify Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Level 4
Performance
Range
Greater than 210.3
Level 3
Performance
Range
-210.3
Level 2
Performance
Range
Level 1
Performance
Range
AND
OR
AND
OR
AND
185.1OR
AND
Less than or equal to 185.0
OR
Level 4 – Exceeds goal
Level 3 – Approaches or attains goal
Level 2 – Some but insufficient progress toward goal
Level 1 – Little or no progress toward goal
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Quantifying a Goal, Cont.
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•
•
Step 5: With the supervisor, the school administrator
should decide what value should constitute the
beginning of Level 3 and put the number on the left side
to indicate the beginning of that range
Step 6: Now the school administrator and supervisor
only need to fill in the immediate quantity below the
number at the beginning of Level 3, and put that
quantity at the end of Level 2
Be sure that they are contiguous; that is, no value is
possible that is not represented on the quantification
table and each value is only represented ONCE
Develop Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Select the
Mathematics
Metric(s).
Universal Screener
School Accountability Report
ACT Score in Mathematics
Other Statewide or Nationally Normed Assessment
State the
Mathematics
Goal(s).
Based on last year’s school
accountability report, my school of 200
tested students earned a total of 185.0
points for Mathematics. My goal for this
year is to increase the total number of
points earned for Mathematics on my
school accountability report to 210.3.
Quantify Your Mathematics Goal(s).
Level 4
Performance
Range
Greater than 210.3
Level 3
Performance
Range
194.8-210.3
Level 2
Performance
Range
185.1-194.7
Level 1
Performance
Range
Less than or equal to 185.0
AND
OR
AND
OR
AND
OR
AND
OR
Level 4 – Exceeds goal
Level 3 – Approaches or attains goal
Level 2 – Some but insufficient progress toward goal
Level 1 – Little or no progress toward goal
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Quantification Errors
30% of MPES participants in
2013-2014 did not quantify
goals clearly
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Quantification Errors, Cont.
First major goal-quantification error: OVERLAP
Increase from 70% to 77% pass rate
Level 4: 77% or above
Level 3: 74-77%
Level 2: 70-74%
Level 1: 70% or below
What if the administrator hits 77% exactly?
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Quantification Errors, Cont.
Second major goal-quantification error: GAPS
Level 4:
Level 3:
Level 2:
Level 1:
Pass rate data = 74.5%
78% or above
75-77%
71-74%
70% or below
Into which level does 74.5% fall?
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Quantification Errors, Cont.
Tip: Avoid gaps by quantifying a goal based on
how your data are reported
• If data are reported in whole numbers,
quantify your goal in whole numbers
• If data are reported in decimals, quantify your
goal in decimals
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RCU Contact
Alexis Nordin
(662) 325-2510
alexis.nordin@rcu.msstate.edu
helpdesk@rcu.msstate.edu
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Questions?
Visit the MDE’s Educator Evaluation website
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/educator-evaluations/mpes
Email mpes@mde.k12.ms.us
Lisa White, Ed.S.
(662) 561-6274
lisawhite@mde.k12.ms.us
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