User's Guide
Field 4: Performance by Characteristics
What You Are Looking At This graph shows certain achievement data broken out by groups of students with similar characteristics. The bar represents the percentage of children who attained the level of proficiency or beyond. What You Are Looking For You are looking for the shortfalls between the 100% goal and the actual attained proficiency of children with certain comparable characteristics. You are also looking for gaps between the achievement of groups of students with different characteristics. Again, the Regents goal is for all children to become fully proficient in all tested subjects. Equipped with the knowledge of its shortfalls, a school can begin to target strategies and resources to close the gaps. Note the extra field Other: On the assessments students are asked to complete their own demographic information which includes “other” among the racial category options for students who do not feel they fit easily into one of the other racial categories. The school’s enrollment data collection process does not include “other” as an option.
ee Web*S
The web version of this field includes the achievement data for students who did not reach the standard. This data is also be broken out by students with certain characteristics and divided into the three performance levels below “achieving the standard.”
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