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MEMORANDUM
June 20, 2012TO: Board MembersFROM: Terry B. Grier, Ed.D.Superintendent of SchoolsSUBJECT:
SPRING
 
2012 STANFORD AND APRENDA NORM-REFERENCED TEST(NRT) RESULTS
The district has received the spring 2012 Stanford 10 and Aprenda 3 results for students ingrades 1
8. This year Houston Independent School District (HISD) assessed elementary andmiddle school students. This is the first year that HISD has not assessed high school levelgrades. This year the testing window for the norm-referenced test (NRT) was May 7–15. Beloware summaries of HISD’s performance of all students, as well as non-special education studentsonly, in grades 1
8 on Stanford 10 and Aprenda 3 tests.The results provided include:
 
The National Percentile Rank (NPR)
is a score that quantifies the rank order of studentperformance for each subtest score compared to the national norming sample.
 
The Normal Curve Equivalents (NCE)
is a score which is referenced to a nationallyrepresentative group of students and can be compared across grades and time.
 
At or Above 50
th
Percentile
provides a baseline for average student performance.Students who score at the 50
th
percentile, are by definition, on grade level. Thispercentage can be compared across grades and over time.
Figure 1
displays four years of Stanford and Aprenda combined data depicting the percent of allstudents who are at or above the 50
th
NPR (or on-grade level).
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Math Language
 
Science Social
 
Science
Figure
 
1:
 
Four
‐
Year
 
NRT
 
Trend
 
Analysis:
 
Percent
 
of 
 
All
 
Students
 
At
 
or
 
Above
 
the
 
50
th
NPR
2009201020112012
 
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The percentage of students who scored at or above the 50
th
national percentile rank on the NRTfrom 2011 to 2012 increased for reading and language, decreased for math and social science,and remained the same for environment/science.
Table 1
displays the percentages of students at or above the 50
th
NPR for all students tested onthe Stanford 10 and Aprenda 3, by grade for 2011 and 2012.
Table 1: Percent of All Students At or Above the 50
th
NPR: 2011 and 2012
Reading Math Language Environ./Science Social ScienceGrade 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012
1 64 65 67 62 67 61 62 57 -- --2 59 58 66 62 63 58 67 69 -- --3 62 57 73 67 63 60 64 65 62 614 50 52 72 66 66 66 66 57 54 505 40 41 59 57 47 43 69 70 50 386 40 34 61 53 42 44 60 49 37 357 38 45 62 59 44 48 58 66 43 518 41 40 61 56 37 37 69 66 50 42
Total 49 50 64 61 51 53 63 63 51 47
(--) No Data Available.
 
For Stanford 10 and Aprenda 3 combined, the percentage of students at or above the50
th
NPR in reading increased from 2011 to 2012 for first, fourth, fifth, and seventhgraders.
The percentage of students meeting the 50
th
percentile in language increased from 2011to 2012 for sixth and seventh graders.
In environment/science, the percentage of students at or above the 50
th
NPR increasedfor all students from 2011 to 2012 in second, third, fifth, and seventh grades.
The percentage of students at or above the 50
th
NPR in social science increased from2011 to 2012 for seventh graders.
From 2011 to 2012, there were no increases in the percentage of students at or abovethe 50
th
NPR in math.The Stanford 10 results of non-special education students for the years 2011 and 2012 arepresented in
Table 2
.
 
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Table 2: Spring 2011 and 2012 Stanford 10 Results for Non-Special Education Students
Reading Math Language Environ./Science Social Science
2011 2012 2012 2011 2012 20122011 2012 2012 2011 2012 2012 2011 20122012Grade NCE NCE NPR NCE NCE NPR NCE NCE NPR NCE NCE NPR NCE NCE NPR1 48 48 46 53 50 50 52 48 47 49 49 48 -- -- --2 46 46 43 51 50 50 48 45 41 52 54 58 -- -- --3 49 48 47 58 56 61 50 48 47 52 55 59 49 49 484 49 50 50 59 58 64 57 57 63 55 53 56 50 48 475 47 47 45 56 55 60 50 49 47 60 63 74 52 48 476 47 45 41 56 54 57 48 49 47 55 51 51 46 45 417 47 49 48 57 56 61 49 50 50 54 58 65 49 51 528 48 47 44 57 54 58 47 47 44 61 58 64 53 49 49
Total 48 48 56 54 50 49 55 55 50 49NCE
- Normal Curve Equivalents, a standard scale of scores with a mean of 50 that can be used for comparisons across years.
NPR
- National Percentile Ranks indicate the relative standing of a student in comparison with other students in the same grade inthe national norm-reference group.(--) No Data Available.
In the spring of 2012, the highest NPR for HISD non-special education students on theStanford 10 assessment was found in fifth and seventh grade science where studentsranked at the 74
th
and 65
th
percentile, respectively.
Average NCE increases were found at two grade levels in reading and language, fourgrade levels in environment/science, and one grade level in social science.The percentages of students who scored at or above the 50
th
national percentile on Stanford 10for each grade during the spring of 2011 and 2012 are presented in
Table 3
.
Table 3: Percent of Students Scoring at or Above the 50
th
NPR on the Stanford 10 forNon-Special Education Students, Spring 2011 and 2012
Reading Math Language Environ./ScienceSocialScience
 
2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012Grade % % % % % % % % % %1 49 50 57 53 57 49 49 48 -- --2 41 42 55 52 48 41 56 61 -- --3 47 46 66 62 49 48 50 57 47 514 44 49 70 66 65 66 62 54 48 465 42 44 62 61 50 46 73 74 53 416 43 37 65 57 46 48 64 53 40 387 41 49 67 63 48 52 62 70 46 548 45 43 66 60 40 40 74 69 54 45
Total 44 45 64 60 50 49 62 61 48 45
(--) No Data Available.
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