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Having your own benchmarks of student and school achievement --- independent of API and AYP --- is crucial to your district's success.

We can translate all of your local assessments --- representing the intentions of your board, superintendent, and teachers --- into a coherent single standard, a multiple measures standard.  We also create standards combining your local assessments with STAR, CELDT, and, SAM, SRI, and CST results. Then we provide the reporting to show how your students and schools are doing according to YOUR standards.

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The design, implementation, and reporting of a multiple measure standard is crucial to decision-making in education for several reasons:

  1. Sometimes there are just too many local and standardized assessment scores to provide proper feedback.  Combining the scores into a single measure makes them more understandable.
  2. Sometimes you need to make a yes/no judgment on a student for placement, retention, acceleration, or graduation decisions.  A properly designed multiple measure is the best, fairest, and most logical way to facilitate the process.
  3. The California Department of Education uses a multiple measure in the design of its own API formula and supports the use of multiple measures by schools.

     
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It is amazing but true that many software products and service providers cannot handle multiple measures.

Multiple Measures design, implementation, and reporting are second nature to EdTech Associates.  We regularly combine 2 to 20 measures into a single composite measure for meeting-grade-level-standards or other uses.  You can do it yourself in QuickSTAR3, or we're just a telephone call, fax, or e-mail away to do it for you.

bulletIn addition, we are now providing development and implementation of multiple measure accountability systems for ESL students.  Using the ASI and Phase Level Accountabiltiy Systems to combine CELDT, STAR, and CST scores, we can determine if your ESL students are on track to attain parity with non-ESL students over your selected period of years. 

Click here to see a multiple measure methodology statement developed by EdTech for a California school district.  Notice how it varies throughout the grades.

Click here to see a report showing the individual scores for each student including, on the right side of the report, a computed answer for whether the student met the grade-level-standard based upon the multiple measure.  This report makes a fine presentation to parents showing them why or why not their child is meeting grade standard.  This report can also be produced with a single page for each student or in letter format with all scores, and specific recommendations, included in the letter.  Many schools use a district-adopted standard, in conjunction with reports such as this, to make legally-defensible, acceleration, retention, and placement decisions.

Click here to see a summative report showing the percentage of students meeting the school's grade-level-standard based upon the multiple measure.