Do different assessments determine AYP than determine a high school’s status in the ABCs?
Now that AYP at the high school level will be determined, for the most part, by students taking the English I, Algebra I and Grade 10 Writing assessments, there is some overlap between AYP and ABCs assessment criteria. Assessments determining high schools’ ABCs status include end-of-course assessments in: English I, Algebra I, Algebra II, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, Physical Science, and Physics for 2004-05. The Civics and Economics and the U.S. History End-of-Course assessments were field tested in 2004-05 and will be fully operational in 2005-06. This means that most high school students will not have to take separate assessments to determine a school’s AYP status, which will drastically reduce the number of assessments administered at the high school level and make those assessments that are administered, more meaningful.
