I. Meeting the Standard
for Number of Students Tested:
To make AYP, schools must test
95 percent of their students in reading and mathematics in all grades in which
AIMS is administered, and must test 95 percent of their students in each
applicable subgroup.
The formula used to
calculate the percentage of students tested is:
Percent Tested = Number
of students tested
Number of students
enrolled
Data Used
Number of students tested. All students who take either the AIMS of AIMS-A and received a score of FFB or above; were enrolled on the
day of testing (on the first day of the testing window for grades 3 through 8),
and were matched to
Number of students enrolled. The dominator for the percent tested calculation is
enrollment count at the school level. For grades 3 through 8 enrollment
used for all subjects is the students enrolled first day of the testing window.
For grade 10, enrollment used is the day the test was administered. Students
are counted in the enrollment of a program subgroup (ELL, special education,
free or reduced lunch) if they participated in that program at the school in
which they were tested at anytime during that school year.
Special Rules
Minimum group size. A group or subgroup is
not evaluated if it had less than 40 students enrolled on the relevant day. A
sample of size of 40 was considered large enough to provide statistically
meaningful results.
Best of the current year or three year average. If a school does not test 95 percent of its students
in a subgroup for the current year, a three year average of percent of students
tested is calculated using the following formula:
Percent tested = # tested in 2005 + # tested in 2006 + # tested in
2007
# enrolled in 2005 + # enrolled
in 2006 + # enrolled in 2007
If the three-year average is
greater than or equal to 95 percent then the subgroup is deemed to have met the
goal of testing 95 percent of its students.
Concurrently enrolled students. If a student is enrolled in two schools on the
testing date and has tested in one of the schools, she is included in the
percent tested calculation of the school in which she was tested. She is not
included in the calculation, neither in the number tested nor the number
enrolled, of the other school. If a student is enrolled in two schools on the
testing date and has tested in neither school, she is counted against both
schools.
Reference: Arizona’s School
Accountability System 2007 Technical Manual,