Progress report on the class of 2003 : percentage of students who have earned a competency determination statewide and by district PDF
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r W\m5. ^X\-d~\ /3/JJ07 ? UMASS/AMHERST 312Dbb DEfll EbTl D J "*** 10 GOVE >TDO ouscZ^rs MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM Progress Report on the Class of2003 Percentage ofStudents Who Have Earned a Competency Determination Statewide and by District April 2002 Massachusetts Department of Education Digitized by the Internet Archive 2013 in http://archive.org/details/progressreportoOOmass \ Massachusetts Department of Education This documentwas prepared by the Massachusetts Department of Education Department of Dr. David P. Driscoll, Commissioner of Education Education Board ofEducation Members James A. Peyser, Chairman. Dorchester HenryThomas, Vice-Chairman, Worcester Charles D. Baker, Swampscott J. Richard Crowley, Andover Judith I. Gill, Chancellor, Higher Education, Boston William K. Irwin, Jr., Wilmington James Madden, Randolph, Chair, StudentAdvisory Council Abigail M. Thernstrom, Lexington HenryM. Thomas, III, Springfield David P. Driscoll, Commissioner and Secretaryto the Board The Massachusetts Department ofEducation, an Affirmative Action employer, is committed to ensuring that all ofits programs and facilities are accessible to all members ofthe public. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. © Copyright 2002 Massachusetts Department ofEducation Permission is hereby granted to copy any or all parts ofthis document for non-commercial educational purposes. Please credit the "Massachusetts Department ofEducation." This documentprintedon recycledpaper 350 Main Street, Maiden, Massachusetts 02148-5023 #781-338-3000 . Background Massachusetts public school students in the graduating class of2003 will be the first class ofstudents required to earn a competency determination as a condition for earning a high school diploma. The EducationReform Law of 1993 mandated the competency determination. In January 2000, the Board of Education established currentregulations thatrequire students to attain a performance level ofNeeds Improvement orhigher onboth the grade 10 English Language Arts andMathematics tests ofthe Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) to earn a competency determination. Students havemultiple opportunities to retake the test(s) that they did notpass priorto their scheduled graduation date. As ofApril 2002, students in the class of2003 have had two opportunities to takethe MCAS grade 1 tests in spring 2001 and in fall 2001 StateResults The tablebelow shows thepercentage ofstudents in the class of2003 who havenow earned a competency determinationbased on the cumulativenumber ofstudents who havepassed the grade 10 MCAS tests administered in the spring and fall of2001. The percentage ofstudents in the original class of2003 who have earned a competency determination was calculated using enrollment data reportedby school principalsonthe first day ofMCAS testing in the spring of2001. The percentage ofstudents in the current class of2003who have earned a competency determination was calculated using the fall 2001 grade 11 enrollmentdatareportedby districts throughthe Department's Student Information Management System (SIMS). Changes in enrollmentbetween the spring and fall are due primarily to students transferring, dropping out, orbeingretainedin grade. The Departmentwill trackthe status ofall students in the class of2003 including those that earn a competency determination, transfers, dropouts, and students retained in grade andprovide that information in futurereports. CompetencyDetermination Results for the Class of2003 All Students and Selected Subgroups Original Class of2003 Current Class ol 2003 Percentage Who HaveEarned a CD Percentage Who Spring Spring Fall 2001 2001 Spring 2001 + Enrollment HaveCEaDrned a Enrollment 2001 Fall2001 Retest All Students 68,118 68% 75% 63,767 76% Student Status LimitedEnglishProficient 2,190 7% 18% 2,335 16% StudentswithDisabilities* 9,434 30% 42% 7,806 45% RegularEducation* 56,494 77% 83% 53,626 83% Race/Ethnicity** African-American/Black 4,076 37% 47% 5,074 48% Asian 2,750 68% 76% 2,956 75% Hispanic 5,055 29% 38% 5,284 41% NativeAmerican 141 48% 57% 172 73% White 47,498 77% 83% 50,281 82% Gender Female 32,932 72% 78% 31,917 77% Male 33,479 66% 73% 31,850 74% •Becausefall2001SIMSdataforihcscgroupswerenotavailableatthetimeofthisreport,dataforthesestudentgroupsarebasedonspring2001MCASdata,withstudentsnot matchingSIMSproportionatelyaddedtoeachgroup **Whiletheenrollmentforstudentsineachracial/ethnicgroupappearstohavegrownbetweenthespringandfall2001.theincreaseisdueprimarilytothefactthatstudentswho identifiedthemselvesas"mixed"or"other"onthespring2001MCAStestsmayhavebeenreportedinoneofthefiveracial/ethnicgroupsshowninthetablebytheSIMSinthefall 2001 Combinedracial/ethnicenrollmentfiguresforthespring2001maynotequaltotalenrollmentfigures,asdemographicinformationwasnotllwoytavailablefblallstudents ProgressReporton the Classof2003: PercentageofStudents Who HaveEarneda CompetencyDetermination StatewideandbyDistrict, April2002 Description ofOriginal and Current Class of2003 When examining the performance ofthe class of2003, there is no single way to define that class. One option is to define the class as the group ofstudents enrolled at a fixedpoint in time. In the results shown above, forexample, the class of2003 is defined as those students enrolled inthe tenth grade on the first MCAS day of testing in spring 2001. — Another option is to focus on the current class of2003 that is, to examine the performance ofthose students currently enrolled in school who are scheduled to graduate in the spring of2003. Forthepurposes ofthisprogress report, the performance oftwo.groups ofstudents is examined. Those two groups are defined inthe tablebelow. Description ofOriginal and Current Class of2003 Original Students enrolled in the tenth grade on thefirst dayofMCAStesting in thespringof2001. Class (68,118) This is the set of68,118 students reportedby school principals throughthe spring 2001 MCAS StudentIdentification Forms. Schoolprincipals wererequired to submit a Student Identification Form forall students enrolled in the tenth grade on the first day ofMCAS testing. Current Students enrolledin the class of2003 at the beginningofthe current2001-2002schoolyear. Class (63,767) This is the set of63,767 studentsreportedby school districts as grade 11 students in the fall 2001 collection ofindividual student data forthe Department's Student Information Management System (SIMS). Each fall, all school districts are required to provide the Departmentwith arosterofall students enrolled at each grade level on the first day of October. Comparison ofthe Original and Current Class of2003 Although the majority ofstudents are the same in both groups, there was a considerable change in the membership ofthe class of2003 from thetenth to the eleventh grades. As a starting point, the table above shows that the current class has 4,351 fewerstudents than original class. That difference is the aggregate ofthe number ofstudents entering and leaving the class of2003. The figure below shows a comparisonbetween the two groups indicates that 96 percent (60,965) ofthe 63,767 students in the current class, were members ofthe class of2003 in the spring of2001 Among the . remaining 2,802 students are students who entered the class of2003 afterthe spring of2001, students who were unaccounted for in the spring of2001, and students whose records from the fall and spring couldnot be matched. ProgressReporton theClassof2003: Percentage ofStudents WhoHaveEarneda CompetencyDetermination StatewideandbyDistrict, April2002 Original Class Current Class of2003 of2003 68,118 63,767 A second issue is to determine what became ofthe approximately 7,000 students in the original class who are no longer in the current class of2003. Over halfofthose students can be linked with current grade 10 or grade 12 SIMS data. The remaining group ofstudents includes students no longer enrolled in public school in Massachusetts: students who moved out ofstate orto a private school, students who dropped out ofschool, and students whose records from the MCAS tests could not be matched to students in the current class. Overall, the drop in enrollment in the class of2003 from the spring ofthe tenth grade to the fall ofthe eleventh grade is consistent with previous school years. The graph below shows the relationship between grade 10 and grade 1 1 enrollments forthe graduating classes from 1993 to 2003. ProgressReportonthe Classof2003: Percentage ofStudents WhoHaveEarnedaCompetencyDetermination StatewideandbyDistrict, April2002
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