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• Introduce to the media the difficulty of correct assessment using static test in transient student population. Combine with #3 above.
  
• Use a comparison of the SAT 9 Scores from the Comprehensive High School and the SAT 9 Scores from the Continuation High School after the student has been enrolled in the Continuation High School for the majority of the school year (more than 6 months).
  
• Portfolios with a combination of SAT/9 for students in continuation for a year.
  
• Use diagnostic pre and posttests to determine growth.
  
• A Pre and Post Test would give us a growth indicator. We should be judged on how well a student has done since entering "Our School".
  
• It seems that a two-year comparison for those students who have been continuously enrolled would make more sense. The other dimension that I would encourage is multiple measures of success (student achievement). If we can use other measurements besides SAT/9
  
• Have CCEA adopt a SECOND Test. CASAS- some of our students will go on and exit through various adult schools. Use a combination of Two years of SAT9 and at least 1 year of CASAS. WITH the CASAS ONLY BEING GIVEN TO STUDENTS who have been at the school si
  
• Enrollment is OK in the second selection (above); however, real learning and change seems to be taking place when students have regular attendance (i.e. our district average is above 95%). Perhaps actual attendance during the regularly scheduled class session
  
• Use SAT9 scores for students who were continuously enrolled in the Cont. HS for one full year, regardless of whether they took SAT9 the previous year. i.e., Enrolled 5/99; still there in 5/00 then scores count.
  
• Continue to lobby for the return of the scores to the sending schools.
  
• Only longitudinal testing should be valid (same student at same alternative school over a two year period)
  
• This is the method we are using in assessing our instructional program. A full year of attendance and academic offerings is a fairer gage of how well we are doing with the students who are sent to us.
  
• Use attendance, grades and credits earned instead of SAT9 for any student enrolled in a continuation school for one or more semesters.
  
• Why are the applications for model school in PDF format PDF cannot be modified to put data into online. Ken Witte sonrise@aol.com
  
• Your second suggestion - paired scores for the same student - will not work for the majority of continuation schools since 12th graders are not tested.
  
• There are many alternative schools with low enrollment figures, thus yielding a insignificant number of students for the scores to have any validity. Then what

Position Alt. Ed. Teacher

• A random selection of SAT/9 scores from each grade level should be selected and average. These should be selected from students who attended at least 51% of the school year in a continuation setting.
  
• SAT/9 should be used 100%.
  
• Scores to be attributed to sending high school

Position Other Not Listed

• + an attendance %
  
• The numbers of SAT 9 scores from most of the Continuation schools in our Region 2 are so few scores that it would not be a reasonable indicator of students' achievement. I suggest that the scores be tabulated as a total composite for all the schools in our region.