New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment Results

Spring 2023 Administration

Teaneck Public Schools August 23, 2023

Alicia Lyle
K-12 Supervisor of Mathematics

Patricia Dent
Director of School Innovation, English and ESL

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Understanding the New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment

● Statute requires the State graduation proﬁciency assessment to administered to all grade 11 students. (N.J.S.A. 18A:7C-6)
● The New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment is designed to measure the extent to which students are graduation ready in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics.

● Graduation readiness is reported separately for each content component. ● The ELA component is aligned to the grade 10 standards.
● The Mathematics component is aligned to Algebra I and Geometry standards.

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Understanding the New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment

● On May 3, 2023, the New Jersey State Board of Education adopted a new proﬁciency level cut score for the English language Arts (ELA) and mathematics components of the NJGPA, as well as the menu of alternative assessments and aligned cut scores.
● Students who take but do not meet the minimum required score on each component of the assessment will have the opportunity to receive additional supports and may take the following steps:
○ Retake the ELA and/or mathematics components of the New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment in the following summer or fall;
○ Meet a designated cut score from the menu of substitute competency tests; or ○ Complete a portfolio appeal.

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Description of the Individual Student Report (ISR)

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Description of the Individual Student Report (ISR)

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NJGPA: English/Language Arts Scoring

Scoring Subclaims for Reading Complex Text: 44 total points
• Reading Literature: Students demonstrate comprehension and draw evidence from readings of grade 10, complex literary text.
• Reading Informational Text: Students demonstrate comprehension and draw evidence from readings of grade 10, complex informational texts.
• Vocabulary Interpretation and Use: Students use context to determine the meaning of words and phrases.

Scoring Subclaims for Writing: 30 total points
• Written Expression: Students produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

• Knowledge of Language and Conventions: Students demonstrate knowledge of conventions and other important elements of language.

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NJGPA: Composition of the Mathematics Assessment

Standards for Mathematical Content (30 out of 55 points) •	Major Content

The student solves problems involving the Major Content in Algebra I and Geometry. •	Supporting Content
The student solves problems involving the Additional and Supporting Content in Algebra I and Geometry.
Standards for Mathematical Practice (25 out of 55 points) •	Reasoning (10 out of 55 points)

The student expresses Algebra I and Geometry course-level appropriate mathematical reasoning by constructing viable arguments, critiquing the reasoning of others (MP.3), and/or attending to precision when making mathematical statements(MP.6).
•	Modeling (15 out of 55 points)
The student solves real-world problems by applying knowledge and skills articulated in the standards for Algebra I and Geometry, engaging particularly in the Modeling practice, and where helpful making sense of problems and persevering to solve them (MP.1), reasoning abstractly and quantitatively (MP.2), using appropriate tools strategically (MP.5), looking for and making use of structure (MP.7), and/or looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning (MP.8).

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Subject
	Eligible Test Takers
	Valid Test Scores
	Participation Rate

English / Language Arts

303

296

98%

Mathematics

303

297

98%

Spring 2023 NJGPA Administration - Percentages

Percentage of Students - Graduation Ready
	
NJGPA Comparison
	2022
	2023
	
	State
	District
	State
	District
	
English/ Language Arts
	39.4%
	46%
	80.5%
	83.4%
	
Comparison of Growth - English/ Language Arts
	+40.9%
	+37.4%
	
Mathematics
	49.5%
	43.2%
	55%
	46.1%
	
Comparison of Growth - Mathematics
	+5.5%
	+2.9%

Spring 2023 NJGPA Test Administration - Comparison of Percentages: Teaneck Public Schools vs the State

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New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment
	
Total Number of Students in the Subgroup
	
Number of Students who are Graduation Ready
	
% of Students Who Are Graduation Ready
	
Female
	152
	140
	92.1%
	
Male
	143
	106
	74.1%
	
Hispanic or Latino
	106
	51.6%	88
	83%
	
Asian
	46%	23
	22	39.7%
	95.7%
	
Black or African-American
	113
	92
	81.4%
	
White
	47
	40
	85.1%
	
Economic Disadvantage
	95
	75
	78.9%
	
Students With Disabilities-IEP Yes
	62
	31
	50.0%

Spring 2023 NJGPA - English/Language Arts Subgroup Performance

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New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment
	
Total Number of Students in the Subgroup
	
Number of Students who are Graduation Ready
	
% of Students Who Are Graduation Ready
	
Female
	152
	85
	56%
	
Male
	144
	52
	36%
	
Hispanic or Latino
	108
	49
	45%
	
Asian
	23
	13
	57%
	
Black or African-American
	112
	40
	36%
	
White
	47
	31
	66%
	
Economic Disadvantage
	95
	41
	43%
	
Students With Disabilities-IEP Yes
	63
	11
	17.5%

Spring 2023 NJGPA - Mathematics Subgroup Performance

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Graduation Requirements

Current Senior Class: Class of 2024

If, after completing the New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency Assessment in grade 11, students did not demonstrate proﬁciency by passing the ELA component, such students may access the following pathways:

• Second Pathway: By meeting the designated cut score on a substitute competency test such as the PSAT, SAT, ACT, or ACCUPLACER; or
• Third Pathway: By submitting, through the district, a student portfolio appeal to the New Jersey Department of Education.

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Meeting the Assessment Requirements

Current Seniors: Class of 2024

September 2023 to October 5, 2023

Teaneck High School

New Jersey Graduation Proﬁciency

Assessment Intensive Tutoring

Week of October 10th

Retake the New Jersey Graduation

Proﬁciency Assessment

January to March 2024

Pathways offered to take alternative

Assessments

Four weeks of intensive tutoring prior to	Eligible seniors will retake the Graduation	Eligible seniors will work with the school counseling retaking the assessment during the	Proﬁciency Assessment.	department to determine alternative assessments to week of October 10, 2023.                                                                                                                                           meet the graduation requirements.

Students who are “not yet graduation ready”

Mathematics: 160 students	Language Arts: 49 students

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Instructional Planning

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NJGPA Support Plan

Assess
	Assess student readiness using an NJGPA screener.
	
Identify
	Identify students to participate in before or after school tutoring opportunities
	
High Intensity Support
	Provide students with small-group tutoring support in the identiﬁed standards between October - March

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NJGPA ELA Instructional Planning

Current Junior Class: Class of 2025
Increasing Opportunities to Read Informational Text:
• The Director of School Innovation, English and ESL and the Supervisor of Social Studies will observe and coach teachers together in order to elevate and improve reading instruction in the social studies classroom.

Item Analysis and Supporting Content
• Department meeting times will be used to review the question types, and complete an item analysis in support for sharpening grade-level instruction in grades 9, 10 and 11.

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NJGPA Mathematics Instructional Planning

Current Junior Class: Class of 2025 Item Analysis and Supporting Content
• Department meetings will be used to review the question types, and complete an item analysis in support of sharpening content area instruction in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra II.

Increasing Opportunities to Engage in Rich Mathematics Tasks:
• Rich mathematical tasks engage scholars in sense-making of content standards through multi-part items that require high levels of critical thinking, reasoning, mathematical modeling, and problem solving.
• In Eureka Math², our new K-8 mathematics program, students are consistently exposed to complex tasks that support the productive struggle required to learn mathematics.

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NJGPA Mathematics - Rich Task Example

The Problem:

What is required of students to achieve maximum points on this problem?

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Questions

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