10 This is the first of three slides that show the overall trend data. In this slide the school performance across the years is shown. The principle comparison to be made is between the current year’s performance and the pattern (trend) of the scores across the previous years. Is there a trend? If so, what is the general direction of the trend? If there is a general trend, is this year’s performance consistent with that trend? Remember, the alignment of the performance levels across grades 4, 7, and 10, all other things remaining equal, would result in an increase of 4.1 percentage points for students meeting the standard in 2004 over 2003.
17 Ask the participants what they see in the trends for each of the of the performance levels. Over time, does it appear that students have been moving into higher performance levels? What conclusions might be drawn from the patterns in these trends? Due to the revisions to the performance standards needed to make them more vertically aligned, if all other factors remained the same, you would expect the percent in Level 3 in 2004 to increase by 4.1 percentage points and a corresponding 4.1 percentage point decrease in the percent in Level 2. You would not expect Levels 1 or 4 to be affected by the adjustment to the cut score.
5 General Title Slide.
7 Specific Title Slide for School.
10 This is the first of three slides that show the overall trend data. In this slide the school performance across the years is shown. In 1999 major improvements were made in the quality control procedures associated with the scoring of writing. Therefore, data prior to 1999 are not shown. The principle comparison to be made is between the current year’s performance and the pattern (trend) of the scores across the previous years. Is there a trend? If so, what is the general direction of the trend? If there is a general trend, is this year’s performance consistent with that trend?
5 General Title Slide.
7 Specific Title Slide for School.
10 This is the first of three slides that show the overall trend data. In this slide the school performance across the years is shown. The principle comparison to be made is between the current year’s performance and the pattern (trend) of the scores across the previous years. Is there a trend? If so, what is the general direction of the trend? If there is a general trend, is this year’s performance consistent with that trend? Remember, the alignment of the performance levels across grades 4, 7, and 10, all other things remaining equal, would result in an increase of 3.2 percentage points for students meeting the standard in 2004 over 2003.
17 Ask the participants what they see in the trends for each of the of the performance levels. Over time, does it appear that students have been moving into higher performance levels? What conclusions might be drawn from the patterns in these trends? Due to the revisions to the performance standards needed to make them more vertically aligned, if all other factors remained the same, you would expect the percent in Level 3 in 2004 to increase by 3.2 percentage points. You would also expect to see 1.2 and 2.0 percentage point decreases in Levels 2 and 1 respectively, but you would not expect that Level 4 would be affected.
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