Indistar was first developed in 2007 for use by the Virginia Department of Education and has since been adopted by an additional eight states. Virginia employed the system first at the district level, in 30 districts in conditional accreditation status or with schools in restructuring or conditional accreditation status. In the second year, Virginia added the school-level system and the Instructional Leadership Academy. Over these two years, 27 schools demonstrated the following results:
Schools with Gains in Reading: 26 (96.2%)
Schools with Gains in Math: 26 (96.2%)
2007 Reading
Mean Percent of Students Scoring Proficient or Better: 67.01%
2009 Reading
Mean Percent of Students Scoring Proficient or Better: 80.48%
Mean Gain in Reading: 13.47 percentage points
2007 Math
Mean Percent of Students Scoring Proficient or Better: 55.28%
2009 Math
Mean Percent of Students Scoring Proficient or Better: 75.37%
Mean Gain in Math: 20.09 percentage points
Virginia has now expanded to system to more than 100 schools. By the end of the 2009-10 school year, more than 1,000 schools in eight states will be using the Indistar system. |
