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Bilingual Education & English as a New Language

New York State's ESSA Plan for Growth in English Language Proficiency (ELP) Webinar

This webinar focuses on the New York State English as a second language achievement test and provides an overview of four steps to determine a school-level rating in ELP:

  1. Probablity of students meeting growth targets
  2. Aggregating probabilities at the school level (aka school benchmark)
  3. Calculate the ratio (students who made progress/expected growth)
  4. Translating ratio into an ESSA indicator score