Review Agenda Item

Meeting Date:

9/7/2017 - 7:00 PM

Category:

Discussion Topics

Type:

Info

Subject:

SOL Assessment Update and Next Steps

ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:

Objective 1.1 Educational Excellence

ACPS will regularly assess and respond to the needs, interests, and abilities of individual students.

Objective 1.2 Achievement Gaps

ACPS will target academic achievement gaps and increase positive educational outcomes across race/ ethnicity, income, disability, and language subgroups.

Objective 6.2 Continuous Improvement

ACPS will engage in cycles of continuous improvement at every level of the school division, and it will employ evidence-based decision-making in its consideration of process improvements, policy making, and budgeting and accountability.

Policy:

AE - School Division Goals and Objectives

Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)

File Attachment:

170907_Board Memo_Assessment Update 16-17 Preliminary Results and Next Steps.pdf

170907_PowerPoint_2016-2017 Assessment Update and Next Steps.pdf

170907_PowerPoint_2016-2017 Assessment Update and Next Steps.pptx

170907_Report_Assessment Update 2016-2017 Preliminary Results.pdf

170907_Brief_Curriculum Analysis of Responses to SOL Results.pdf

170907_ACPS Teaching and Learning Framework.pdf

Agenda Item Summary:

ACPS division performance across content areas was largely consistent (+/- 2 percentage points) with the previous year. Subgroup results were either mostly consistent with previous years or displayed levels of slight decline. Subgroups that showed the largest decline across all content areas were Asian, SWD, and Hispanic students. Moving forward ACPS must focus on reversing these subgroup trends through the strategies delineated by Curriculum and Instruction to regain the progress and continued growth that was seen in recent years.

Background:

The Assessment Update: 2016-2017 Preliminary Results is provided to apprise stakeholders to both preliminary division and school level performance on key assessment results during the 2016-2017 school year. Many of these data are preliminary and are subject to change over the course of the coming month(s). As additional results become available (e.g. SAT, ACT and VA On-Time Graduation rates), supplementary analyses and reports will be provided.

Recommendation:

The Superintendent recommends review of the Assessment Update: 2016-2017 Preliminary Results for possible planning, procedural, programmatic, and/or budgetary changes.

Approvals:

Recommended By:
Signed By:
	Dr. Clinton Page - Chief Accountability Officer

Signed By:
	Lois Berlin -