Section 511IAC10-6-4. Evaluation measures

   (a) Measures to be used shall include the following:

(1) Measures provided by the department based on student achievement and/or growth on statewide assessments.

(2) Measures based on other assessments developed or procured by a school corporation for the purpose of showing student growth and/or achievement. The department will issue guidance to assist corporations in identifying and developing assessments, which may include commercially available or locally developed assessments, performance tasks, portfolios, or other measures of student growth and achievement.

(3) Measures closely aligned with content standards, as applicable, to reflect ambitious learning goals and proportional representation of content.

  (b) Selection and weight of measures. The use and weighting of student measures shall directly relate the assessments that most accurately measure student learning according to the following priority:

(1) Where a mandatory state assessment exists, a school corporation must use it as a measure of student learning. If that state assessment provides individual growth model data, the school corporation must use it as that teacher's primary measure of student learning.

(2) Where a state assessment does not exist, an assessment developed or procured by a corporation that is used for common grades or subjects shall be used as a measure of student learning.

(3) Only when there is no state, corporation, or school assessment shall a school corporation utilize class-specific, teacher-created assessments as a measure of student learning for evaluation purposes.

(4) Corporations may use multiple student learning measures. If corporations choose to use multiple sources of data, the primary measure will carry the most weight in relation to the other student learning measures.

  (c) Negative impact on student learning shall be defined as follows:

(1) For classes measured by statewide assessments with growth model data, the department shall determine and revise at regular intervals the cut levels in growth results that would determine negative impact on growth and achievement. Cut levels shall be published by August 1.

(2) For classes that are not measured by statewide assessments, negative impact on student growth shall be defined locally where data show a significant number of students across a teacher's classes fails to demonstrate student learning or mastery of standards established by the state.

  (d) The department will provide guidance to districts on the best selection of assessments. (Indiana State Board of Education; 511 IAC 10-6-4; filed May 4, 1988, 8:30 a.m.: 11 IR 3036; readopted filed Oct 12, 2001, 12:55 p.m.: 25 IR 937; readopted filed Nov 20, 2007, 11:36 a.m.: 20071219-IR-511070386RFA; filed Feb 6, 2012, 3:05 p.m.: 20120307-IR-511110405FRA)