Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules
Chapter 47 - WYOMING ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM
Section 47-11 - Participation Rate

(i) Each Wyoming school shall test students at a rate at or above 95% on the state achievement test.

(ii) Two participation calculations are applied to each school. First, participation calculations are computed for all students enrolled in the school during the testing window. Second, participation calculations are computed for all FAY students at a school (i.e., with non-FAY students excluded).

(iii) A simple participation rate is the number of students who tested, divided by the number of students who should have tested at the school.

(iv) Whenever the 95% participation rate requirement would require a simple participation rate greater than 95%, the one additional non-participant rule will be applied.

(v) Participation rates are computed at the test score level rather than the student level. The Department shall set a target for the number of tests that need to be administered and scored at the school for the requirement to be met.

(vi) The minimum n for participation is 10 students. When students from prior school years are included through the lookback process described in Section 12 of these rules in order to meet the minimum n for the achievement indicator, the prior years that are used for that purpose are also included for the participation rate computations.

(vii) When a school does not meet the 95% participation rate requirement for all enrolled students, the Department shall increase the denominator on the Achievement indicator by the difference between the number of students necessary to reach the 95% requirement and the number of students tested.

(i) There is a 95% participation rate requirement for EL students on the ACCESS test. All identified EL students, including EL students for whom parents are refusing services, are required to take the ACCESS test during the testing window each school year.

(ii) The participation rate determination for EL students will include the one additional non-participant rule.

(iii) When a school does not meet the 95% participation rate requirement for ACCESS testing for all of the EL students at the school, the Department shall increase the denominator when calculating the school's ELP indicator score by a number equal to the number of non-tested students below 95% after applying the one additional non-participant rule.