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Refining School Performance Measures for ESSA Accountability in the Wake of COVID-19

Mid-Atlantic | August 11, 2022

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Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM

Location: U.S. Department of Education’s 2022 National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) STATS-DC Data Conference (Virtual Event)

After two years of waived accountability provisions, the full requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act are back in place in 2022. But the assessment disruptions of the last two years are forcing states to revise their school performance measures, which typically require data from preceding years as well as the current year. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) is working with the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to refine the state’s school performance measures in the wake of the pandemic. Staff from REL Mid-Atlantic and NJDOE will describe ongoing analytic work to improve the state’s measures of school performance, with the ultimate aim of improving student outcomes in an equitable way. In particular, REL and NJDOE are collaborating on several issues that are relevant to states all over the country:

1. Producing a schoolwide measure of student growth that uses a pre-pandemic test baseline, as proposed on the REL blog;
2. Conducting diagnostic analyses to explore the validity of data on English-language proficiency during a period when many students were not tested;
3. Applying Bayesian statistical methods to stabilize measures of school performance to reduce random error, particularly for small schools and for student subgroups.

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