La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-1707

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XI-1707 - Student Growth Methodology

A. The growth score for each subject shall include all students enrolled in the school for the current full academic year with scores on the annual state accountability assessment in the current and prior years for a subject.

B. A school earns credit for growth in a subject for each student who, on the annual state accountability assessment:

1. increases at least one achievement level in the subject;

2. scored below the mastery achievement level in the subject for the prior year and advances from a subcategory within basic, approaching basic, or unsatisfactory achievement levels to a higher level in the current year. The subcategory is determined by dividing the scale of each achievement level into two equal parts;

3. for a given subject area, scored at the mastery achievement level in both the prior year and the current year and earns a scaled score greater in the current year than in the prior year;

4. scores at the advanced achievement level in the current year.

C. For reading/ELA and mathematics, students measured as scoring in the lowest-performing 25 percent based on prior year scores on the annual state accountability assessment and with full year enrollment in the school for the current academic year shall comprise the additional reading/ELA and mathematics growth groups.

D. For students taking a first LEAP 2025 assessment in high school in a subject area, the eighth grade assessment taken in the same subject will be used as the prior-year assessment for determining growth. For each year since the prior assessment, the student shall grow by one achievement subcategory in the current year. If the student scored at mastery in eighth grade, the student must improve one scale point per year since the prior test. The high school assessment need not be taken in the school year directly following the examination counted as the prior-year assessment.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-1707

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 501630 (11/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6, R.S. 17:6.1, and R.S. 17:10.1.