PPT Slide
Example: State Z decided to adopt an adequate yearly progress measure that triggered school improvement for any school that did not make sufficient gains to assure all students meet high standards in the state's four core content areas by the year 2005. In reading, to take just one of the content areas, the system would work as follows:
School A: 25% of the fourth-grade students proficient in reading.
To make sufficient yearly gains to get to 100% in ten years, it would have to make approximately 7.5% gains each year.
School B: 80% of the fourth grade students reading proficiently.
Must make approximately 2% gains each year over ten years.
An adequate yearly progress system does not expect low-performing School A to equal the higher performance of School B in the first year or two of the accountability system. Indeed, both schools could be deemed to be making adequate yearly progress and be quite far apart in their proficiency levels. Yet, by the end of students' school careers, the two schools must have enabled all students to meet the state standards.