{"id":3966,"date":"2019-10-30T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:59:40","slug":"english-learners-growth-toward-english-proficiency-in-grades-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2019\/10\/30\/english-learners-growth-toward-english-proficiency-in-grades-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"English Learners&#8217; Growth toward English Proficiency in Grades 1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since 2017-18, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has set annual ACCESS growth targets for each English Learner by using a student\u2019s first ACCESS assessment scale score to determine their baseline proficiency level. Then, a formula is applied that combines the student\u2019s grade level at the baseline and their baseline English proficiency level to calculate an attainment target score and grade for achieving attainment. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/admins\/lead\/account\/stateplan17\/paconsolidatedstateplanfinal.pdf\">PDE&#8217;s formula<\/a>, it should take no more than six years to achieve attainment (and fewer if the student starts at a higher baseline level).<\/p>\n<p>Click the button below to download the brief.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philasd.org%2Fresearch%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F90%2F2019%2F10%2FEL-Student-Growth-in-English-Proficiency-Gr-1-5-2018-19-October-2019-Research-Brief-1.pdf|||&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief analyzes District attainment of the ACCESS growth targets set for English Learners by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21878,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,134,130,142],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-effective-instruction","category-equity","category-literacy","category-system-trends","tag-k-5"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/4632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}