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Teacher Accountability - DPAS II-Revised Component 5: more details decided for this year Recently incoming Sec. of Education Mark Murphy and outgoing Sec. of Education Lillian Lowery e-mailed news about how Component 5 of the eval- uation system will be implemented this current 2011-2012 school year. T he biggest new information was about how the rating will be calculated for the state's approximately 3,000 DCAS teachers (grades 3-10, English Language Arts and/or Mathematics): Only DCAS teachers will receive Component 5 data for this year Only if this data, combined with the results of their Components 1-4, show "sufficient growth" will these teachers then be eligible for a Highly Effective summative rating for this year. A subset of these teachers will be eligible for a $10,000 "retention" payment next year. See related story on next page. For DCAS educators, what's enough student growth? Only teachers of DCAS-tested subjects will receive Component 5 data for this year (similar to the chart here), based on all of their students' performance on DCAS (not just a cohort, as was proposed earlier). DoE expects this data to be available to teachers by July 31 via the Identity Management System (IMS). To determine what the student growth targets will be, DoE will average the growth from last year's scores (2010-2011) and this year's scores (2011-2012) for each grade and subject. They will do this for every student who took the tests. They will use those growth scores to calculate the average growth, which will then be the student target. Growth designations for Students with Disabilities (SWD) and English Language Learners will be calculated separately, in the same way, so that these students' growth rates will be based on com- parable students. This gets clearer when you look at the chart on page 11. Using the growth targets, you will be able to see if your students met those targets by comparing their final spring score with the target score. What about students with poor attendance? As currently exists in statute, stu- dents with more than a 15% absen- tee rate will not be included in teacher performance calculations. What if my data doesn't look right? This is a legitimate concern. There must be a way in future years for teachers to appeal the results. In addition, as we know too well, adverse testing conditions and non- committal students for whom the test has no value are a problem when you're tying their results to a high-stakes accountability system for educators. What if I teach both English Language Arts and Mathematics? Which scores do I use? Both. You can't choose one or the other, as had been proposed earlier this year. If you have 25 students for each test for example, then you will use all 50 spring scores to calculate whether or not at least 65% of those students met their growth targets. See chart on page 11. The Dept. of Education plans to send out a further update on Component 5 for 2011-12 by June 30. 10 May/June 2012 DSEA ACTION! www.dsea.org For non-DCAS educators, no Component 5 this year will be determined without the use of Component 5. Using Components 1-4 only, then, summative ratings will be determined as follows: F 0 to 1 satisfactory components = Ineffective summative rating 2 satisfactory components = Needs Improvement summative rating 3 or 4 satisfactory components = Effective summative rating Component V Overview Teacher Name: Mrs. Smith 70% Summative Rating Based on Components I-IV: Effective Component V Rating: Exceeds Summative Rating Including Component V: Highly Effective The Component V rating is based on student performance on DCAS only, during this pilot year. Note that only DCAS subject teachers are eligible for the Highly Effective summative rating during the 2011-12 school year. Detail: Student ID SWD Status 1 No 2 No 3 No 4 Yes 5 No 6 No 7 Yes 8 Yes 9 No ELL Status No No No No Yes No No No No 10 No Yes Total Number of Targets Met Total Number of Targets Subject ELA ELA ELA ELA ELA ELA ELA ELA ELA ELA Percent of Student Growth Targets Met Fall Score (Actual) 390 432 518 553 579 604 670 707 754 833 Spring Score (Target)* 470 507 581 612 634 656 713 745 786 854 Spring Score (Actual) 480 535 524 660 500 680 740 760 730 890 Target Met MET MET NOT MET MET NOT MET MET MET MET NOT MET MET 7 10 70% *Based on the average growth made by students over two years of DCAS (2010-11 and 2011-12), who had the same fall DCAS score, the same SWD or ELL designation (SWD, ELL, or non-SWD/ELL), and were in the same grade and subject. or this school year, 2011- 2012, summative ratings for non-DCAS educators How many students need to make their growth tar- gets for me to be Highly Effective? If 65% of a teacher's students meet their growth targets for this year, that teacher will receive a Component 5 rating of "Exceeds" and a summative rating of Highly Effective if at least three of Components 1-4 are all Effective. And, as mentioned above, a subset of those educators may be eligible for a $10,000 "retention incentive" next year. If less than 65% of a teacher's stu- dents meet their growth targets for this year, their Summative Rating for this year will only be based on Components 1-4. Grade: 6 Subject: ELA Sample data for class where 70% of ELA students meet their growth targets