The Office of Accountability, Assessment, and Reporting coordinates the district, state and national testing programs, data requests, research requests, Adequate Yearly Progress verifications, district surveys, district scorecard, school benchmarking, Full Time Equivalent, Federal Impact Aid, school data teams, high school waivers and variances, program evaluation and statistical research in support of our accountability programs.  Our goal is to assist our schools with improvement of student achievement.

 

Accountability Component:

 

• Serves as system and school liaison with the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement for determination of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Report.

• Assists and supports the district’s schools to meet/exceed and interpret the AYP measures for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) at federal, state and local levels. 
• Assists in formulation, establishment, and implementation of system accountability plans, school benchmarks, and district scorecard to close gaps between and among all students and different groups of students.
• Assists with the coordination of data teams and surveys to assist our schools and district with data driven decisions to improve student achievement.

             Assessment Component:

• Supports the district-wide assessment process to improve student performance by establishing system testing dates and policies.
• Measures the level of student achievement of the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) in order to identify student needs.  Provides schools with diagnostic and predictive information in identifying strengths and weaknesses in order to establish priorities in planning educational programs.
• Implements state mandated tests in compliance with state requirements.
• Implements and obtains national norm referenced tests and national assessments to measure student progress relative to national progress.
• Facilitates and assists in the development of local assessments that identify student learning patterns and needs.
• Coordinates proctoring and administration of tests in the schools.
• Establishes test security guidelines for the school system.
• Ensures data and test scores are available in multiple formats to meet the needs of the district and departmental goals (see Executive Summary Reports).
• Analyzes and reports data and test score results to the schools, district, parents and public.
• Serves as the contact point for the state Georgia High School Graduation Test and the Georgia High School Writing Test waivers and variances.
• Provides website information to our students, parents and public through links to testing and AYP.
• Provides support to our students and parents with Test Taking Tips at Parent University and other parent organization presentations, as well as radio talk shows.

 

Reporting Component:

 

• Provides information from numerous sources of data with regard to demographics, student performance, research and planning.
• Evaluates programs implemented in the district.
• Organizes and presents data in support of program evaluation and program continuation.
• Participates in outside agency research projects. 
• Develops and/or review questionnaires and surveys.
• Request for permission to conduct research.