State Report Card
Learning Support Indicators
Select a school level to view and/or
print the charts.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
These three lists—one for each school level (high
school, middle school,
elementary school)—show the set of
“learning-support indicators” for each
school. The lists are ranked by one of the indicators: Time in
School. The lists
also show the statewide average for each indicator, by school level.
Each learning-support indicator is a numeric score (0 – 100) that
provides
information about a school and how it operates. These
learning-support indicators are reported for each school:
- Time in School
- Health Education Assessment (health knowledge and skills)
- School Climate
- Parental Involvement (and parent engagement)
- Instruction
High schools receive a 6th indicator: Graduation rate.
Three of the indicators are reported as percentages. Time in
School shows how
many days children in each school are present—that is, not absent
because of
illness, suspensions, truancy, or other situations such as family
emergencies.
The Health Education Assessment shows what percentage of the
children in
each school achieved proficiency on the state health-education
assessments and
what percentage failed to do so. The graduation rate shows the
percentage of
students who have graduated from school. The three other
learning-support indicators are index scores derived from the
2002 SALT Survey. Each score is based on responses to numerous
questions
on the surveys. The school-climate indicator is based on parent,
student, and
teachers surveys; the parental-involvement indicator is based on
the parent and
teacher surveys; the instruction indicator is based on the teacher
surveys. WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
Test scores are useful for telling us what students have
learned and which
students have learned, but the scores do not tell us about the
conditions in a
school that contribute to improved student learning. The
learning-support
indicators give us information that helps educators, their
school-improvement
teams, and the school communities decide what teaching practices,
school structures, and cultures should change in order to improve
learning. The
learning-support indicators are meant to begin discussions in
schools and
districts about what should be done to provide the conditions in
which students
will be able to learn better. For the graduation-rate indicator,
the goal for each school is 95%, matching the
goal established by the R.I. Board of Regents for Elementary and
Secondary
Education that no more than 5% of all students will drop out of
any high school.
For Time in School, the goal is again 95%, meaning that no more
than 5% of the
school year should be lost because of illness, suspensions,
truancy, and other
absences. The interim goal for the Health Education Assessment
is 50% -- half the students
in each school meeting or exceeding the standard across the past
three years of
testing data. Students are more likely to make healthy decisions
and to avoid
risky behavior when they are equipped with the knowledge and
skills to do so. The goal for the other three indicators—School
Climate, Parental Involvement, and Instruction—is a score of 100.
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