2. Which AMO must the school meet:
A. Achievement
B. Growth
C. Gap
D. Reduction of the Non-Proficient
E. All of the Above
F. None of the Above
G. Any one of the Above
4. True or False: As the building
leader, I select the AMO our school
will “go for” and meet.
FALSE!
The AMO you meet is determined by the statistical analysis of the
results of the state assessments.
No “pre-determination” is possible – remember that for 2 of the
AMOs, the entire state’s data must be calculated to determine
whether your building met it – so one could never pre-determine
which one you would be most likely to meet!
5. True or False: As long as we meet
one AMO in one content (either
mathematics or reading), we
“make” the AMO metric.
FALSE!
Each building must meet an AMO in BOTH Mathematics AND in
Reading EACH YEAR!
6. The Achievement AMO:
A. Requires us to have a specific percent of our students “at or
above” proficiency increasing each year until 2018
B. Assigns a point value to each category of scoring above
“Academic Warning”
C. Has an “Assessment Performance Index” as part of the AMO
D. Allows schools to use any measure it chooses to measure
performance
E. B and C only
F. A and D only
7. Answer:
E.
The Achievement AMO provides an “Assessment Performance
Index” that assigns point values to every performance category
above “Academic Warning”
8. The Growth AMO:
A. Requires schools to measure student height each year
B. Looks at the movement of students from a “pre-test” to a “post-
test”
C. Measures the median score on the state assessment for each
school and compares that to the median of each school in Kansas
D. Can only be met by 50% of the schools in Kansas
E. C and D
F. None of the above
9. Answer:
E
The Growth AMO measures the median score on the state
assessment for each school and compares that to the median of
each school in Kansas and can only be met by 50% of the schools in
Kansas
