The Differences Between ISBE’s Framework for ESSA and NCLB
It’s important to understand the similarities and differences between ESSA and NCLB during the school improvement process.
It’s important to understand the similarities and differences between ESSA and NCLB during the school improvement process.
Last year was the first year of full implementation of ISBE’s System of Support, also known as IL-Empower. How has it changed?
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) recently released student growth percentiles (SGPs) to Illinois school districts in preparation of the new school accountability system and the launch of the new Illinois school report card. While incorporating student growth into the school accountability system is a step in the right direction, it is important to recognize that ISBE SGP results are reported within an accountability context not a school improvement context.
Based on recent information provided by the Accountability Technical Advisory Committee’s (TAC) recommendations to ISBE, it is likely that ISBE will move away from linear regression toward Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) as a means to measure student growth under the new school improvement and accountability system.
I’m getting a lot of questions related to linear regression and how the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) may implement linear regression to measure student growth under the new school improvement and accountability system. As a result, I decided to synthesize information as it becomes available.