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Performance over the
past three years, by student characteristics
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Characteristics chart in PDF (16 KB)
What you
are looking at:
This graph shows more generally how schools are
functioning, using three years of achievement data for
math, reading and writing – aggregated from the related
subtests – broken out by groups of students with similar
characteristics. The bar represents 100% of students
with each characteristic placed along a horizontal line
according to the percent who achieved proficiency and
the percent who did not.
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 performance of groups of students
with different characteristics.
General
school functioning at a glance
What is most painful about these graphs is that with the
exception of 4th grade Reading, the majority of the
scores, in all sub-groups, appear below the line
indicating RI’s proficiency standard. (Bear in mind that
RI’s standards are very rigorous compared with those of
many other states. They are similar to the National
Assessment of Education Progress (NAEPs) – also quite
rigorous – in order that the state and the national
assessments do not tell different tales.) Over the years
we are finding that slowly, incrementally, our
elementary students are becoming increasingly proficient
readers. But proficiency in all areas declines from
elementary through secondary and are especially
disheartening at high school, where nearly 19% of the
students have dropped out by grade 12 and whose academic
achievement, which we conjecture to be poor, is not even
included in the chart.
A lesson learned
The performance gains in elementary reading demonstrate
that targeting resources and attention to a subject,
such as targeted elementary reading programs, can
improve achievement outcomes for the state as a whole.
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