Illinois introduces new report cards

According to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), a new report card will be showcased this year, which will be more consumer friendly.

The new report card will feature multiple measures of academic performance, as well as school climate and learning conditions, rendering a more complete picture of each school and district. It emphasizes measuring student and school progress, rather than merely providing a one-time snapshot of annual standardized test scores.

The new report card is set to debut on Oct. 31 and will be available at www.illinoisreportcard.com. District 88 will feature the new report card on its website at www.dupage88.net, as well as in a special newsletter on Oct. 31. The new report card will be available in two formats:

• An online report card with an interactive tool to explore school performance data. The online report card will continue to offer information on student demographics and performance.
• An at-a-glance report card will offer a two-page snapshot that can be downloaded from the online report card.

The 2013 report card also will offer data about students on track for college. This year’s report card will feature a metric labeled “Ready for College Course Work,” which refers to the percent of students who earned a combined score of at least 21 on the ACT. The new report card also will display “Student Academic Growth” by school according to a new growth model that uses value tables to show how much academic progress students have demonstrated from one year to the next in reading and math. The “Student Academic Growth” score will be reported on an advisory basis, not as part of the state’s accountability system.

To see the full article from ISBE, go to https://dupage88.net/site/public/files/?item=1099.