For past Information Works! reports, select a school year:
- Assessments
- Disaggregations
- Accountability
- How Rhode Island Classifies Schools
- 2007 School-Performance Classification: Elementary | Middle | High
- State Indicators
- Value Added: Elementary | Middle | High
- Learning Support Indicators: Elementary | Middle | High
- Health: Middle | High
- Suspensions: State | Elementary | Middle | High
- Students' Point of View: Middle | High
- Advanced Placement Exams
- Teaching Practices: Elementary | Middle | High
- Students with Disabilities
- Students with Disabilities-District Participation
- Students with Disabilities-School Participation: Elementary | Middle | High
- English Language Learners
- Elementary | Middle | High
- Tax Charts
- In$ite: Other Commitments
- In$ite, General Education: District | Elementary | Middle | High
- In$ite: Out-of-District Obligations
User's Guide |
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Introduction
For those of you new to Information Works!, please remember that the data is from school year 2006-07, although the assessment reports include the 2007-08 assessment results.
Each year Information Works! displays a wealth of data gathered in the year preceding its publication.
The User’s Guide presents the following information:
- Each section offers brief, user-friendly explanations for the data on each page, along with a notion of what we consider to be the information’s utility.
- When relevant, the User's Guide provides the source of the numbers presented and, in some cases, how they were calculated.
- In some sections, the User's Guide notes the changes that have resulted from state and federal policy refinements, with short explanations of or references to the policy itself.
Information Works! evolves:
Please note the following changes from Information Works! 2007:
Changes in the School and District Reports
- Assessment results for high schools include data from the first year of NECAP tests for Grade 11 (2007-08).
Changes in the State Report
- The reports on Learning Support Indicators (including attendance and graduation rates) and Suspensions are published in a new format that is sortable and downloadable. We intend to publish other reports using this format in future editions of Information Works!.
When data could compromise confidentiality
When the number of test-takers drops below 10, the results are considered statistically unreliable and are not reported because they could compromise confidentiality. Small sample numbers make it possible to identify or to invite guessing as to the test results of individual children. Information Works! is about the functioning of schools and districts, not about individual children. Thus, very small classes of test-takers such as those at the Block Island School also not reported.
For charts and tables based on three years of assessment data – that is, tables that use the “index proficiency score” – data are not reported unless the minimum number of test-takers is more than 45 students.