North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 16 - EDUCATION › Chapter 06 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Subchapter G - EDUCATION AGENCY RELATIONS › Section .0300 - SCHOOL BASED MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAM › Section 06G .0305 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
For purposes of this Section, the following definitions
					 shall apply:
(1) "Accountability
				  measures" are SBE-adopted tests designed to gauge student performance and
				  achievement.
(2) "Adequate yearly
				  progress" or "AYP" shall have the same definition as set out in
				  P.L.
				  107-110,
				  section
				  1111(b)(2)(C).
(3) "Compliance commission" means that group
				  of persons selected by the SBE to advise the SBE on testing and other issues
				  related to school accountability and improvement. The commission shall be
				  composed of teachers, principals, central office staff representatives, local
				  school board representatives, a charter schools representative, and at-large
				  members who represent parents, business, and the community.
(4) "C-scale" means change scale, which is a
				  standardized scale to measure student performance across the years and content
				  areas. To convert the developmental scale scores to c-scale scores, subtract
				  the state mean for the standard setting year from the developmental scale
				  score, and then divide by the standard deviation for the standard setting
				  year.
(5) "C-ratio" means the ratio
				  of student scores that achieve an academic change of "0.00" or greater to those
				  with an academic change of less than "0.00", including in the numerator for
				  high schools when used for calculating high growth, the factor for change in
				  college tech prep and college university prep graduation rate and the change in
				  competency test pass rate and including in the denominator, the factor for
				  change in drop out rate.
(6)
				  "Eligible students" means the total number of students in membership in the
				  respective grades or enrolled in the respective EOC courses at the time the
				  assessments are administered in a statewide assessment.
(7) "Expected growth" means having met the
				  standard defined by students on average performing as well in their current
				  grade or content as is typical for the same student in previous grades and
				  contents when using the change scale to compare and allowing for a factor of
				  regression to the mean as defined in this policy.
(8) "High growth" means the school has met
				  the standard of having a c-ratio of 1.50 or greater.
(9) "Growth standards" means and includes
				  collectively all the factors defined in this Rule that are used in the
				  calculations described in Paragraph (h) of Rule .0312 of this Section to
				  determine a school's growth/gain composite.
(10) "Performance Composite" is the percent
				  of scores of students in a school that are at or above Achievement Level III,
				  are at a passing level on the North Carolina Computer Skills Test (students in
				  eighth grade only) as specified by
				  16 NCAC
				  06D .0503(f), and at
				  proficiency level or above on the state alternate assessments to the extent
				  that any apply in a given school and consistent with United States Department
				  of Education regulations concerning alternate assessments. The SBE shall:
(a) determine the number of scores that are
				  at Level III or IV in reading, or mathematics, or writing across grades 3
				  through 8, or on all EOC assessments administered as a part of the statewide
				  testing program; add the number of scores that are at a passing level on the
				  North Carolina Computer Skills Test (students in eighth grade only); add the
				  number of scores that are proficient or above on the state alternate
				  assessments and use the total of these numbers as the numerator;
(b) determine the number of student scores in
				  reading, or mathematics, or writing (starting in the 2004-05 school year),
				  across grades 3 through 8, or on all EOC assessments administered as part of
				  the statewide testing program; add the number of students in grade 8; add the
				  number of student scores on the state alternate assessments and use the total
				  of these numbers as the denominator; and
(c) total the numerators for each content
				  area and subject, total the denominators for each content area and subject, and
				  divide the denominator into the numerator and multiply the quotient by 100 to
				  compute the performance composite.