Accountability Report Cards Technical Guide - Wisconsin ...

2016-17 ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT CARDS

TECHNICAL GUIDE

Updated 11/16/2017

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction | Office of Educational Accountability

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Report Card Technical Guide 2 11/16/2017 Public Report Card Technical Guide 2016-17.docx Gaps charts and calculations updated to reflect change to comparison trend based on # of years of target data. Student Achievement walkthrough wording corrected.

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Using This Document

This document provides descriptions for calculating the scores comprising Wisconsin's Accountability Index, the basis of Wisconsin's Accountability Report Cards. This document focuses on the three school-level report cards--the School Report Card, Private School ? Choice Students Report Card, and Private School ? All Students Report Card--and their accompanying School Report Card Details, all calculations and descriptions also apply to the District Report Card and District Report Card Detail. Any differences between these report cards are specifically noted.

Public report cards are available on the Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) website: .

Secure report cards are available to authorized users in SAFE, the Secure Access File Exchange: .

This document connects the data on the School Report Card Detail to the school's Overall Accountability Score and corresponding Accountability Rating. You can approximate the calculations used to arrive at a school's Accountability Index scores using data from the School Report Card Detail (secure or public) and this document. Scores calculated with this document may not exactly match a school's score due to rounding, both in the calculation itself and in the display of values on the School Report Card Detail. For further information on reading and interpreting the Accountability Report Cards, or Wisconsin's accountability system, please refer to our resources available here: .

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Table of Contents

Document Information ................................................................................................................................. ii Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................... iv Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................6 Building the Overall Accountability Score.....................................................................................................6

Background ...............................................................................................................................................6 Steps .......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Exceptions .................................................................................................................................................9 Global Notes............................................................................................................................................10 Overall Accountability Score Walkthroughs ...........................................................................................11 Overall Accountability Walkthrough #1 ..................................................................................................12 Overall Accountability Score Walkthrough #2 ........................................................................................13 Overall Accountability Score Walkthrough #3 ........................................................................................15 Overall Accountability Score Worksheet ................................................................................................17 Calculating Priority Area Scores Student Achievement Priority Area ........................................................19 Background .............................................................................................................................................19 Reading the Report Card Detail...............................................................................................................19 Student Achievement Walkthrough........................................................................................................20 Student Achievement Priority Area Worksheet......................................................................................24 Calculating Priority Area Scores Growth Priority Area...............................................................................29 Background .............................................................................................................................................29 Reading the Report Card Detail...............................................................................................................31 Growth Walkthrough ..............................................................................................................................32 Growth Priority Area Worksheet ............................................................................................................32 Calculating Priority Area Scores Closing Gaps Priority Area ......................................................................34 Background .............................................................................................................................................34 Supergroups ............................................................................................................................................34 Reading the Report Card Detail...............................................................................................................35 Closing Gaps Walkthrough ......................................................................................................................38 Closing Gaps Priority Area Worksheet ....................................................................................................42 Calculating Priority Area Scores On-Track to Graduation and Postsecondary Readiness .........................50 Background .............................................................................................................................................50

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Reading the Report Card Detail...............................................................................................................51 On-Track Walkthrough #1 .......................................................................................................................52 On-Track Walkthrough #2 .......................................................................................................................55 On-Track Walkthrough #3: District calculation .......................................................................................58 On-Track and Postsecondary Readiness Priority Area Worksheet .........................................................61 Calculating Student Engagement Indicator Deductions .............................................................................66 Absenteeism ............................................................................................................................................ 67 Dropout ...................................................................................................................................................69 Test Participation Supplemental Data ....................................................................................................70

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