Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules
Chapter 47 - WYOMING ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM
Section 47-2 - Definitions
Current through September 21, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Accountability Year" means the most recently completed school year.
(b) "All Enrolled Students" means any student enrolled during the state assessment testing window. This definition is specifically for the purpose of computing participation rate.
(c) "Alternative School" means any school that the Department funds as an alternative school for the purposes of the education resource block grant model under W.S. 21-13-309(m)(v)(B).
(d) "Four-Year, On-Time Graduation Cohort" means all of the first-time grade-nine students in the school year 4 years prior to the graduation year (i.e., the starting year) plus students who transfer in, minus students who transfer out, emigrate, or die prior to the graduation year.
(e) "Lagged Indicator" means an indicator in which the score is based on the performance of a cohort from the year before the accountability year.
(f) "Minimum n" means the minimum number of students needed to have a score on an indicator. The minimum n is 10 on all indicators.
(g) "One Additional Non-Participant Rule" means the process of dropping the actual required participation rate for tests on a given indicator to the point at which the number of tests required most closely matches the stated participation rate without exceeding it.
(h) "WAEA" means the Wyoming Education and Accountability Act (W.S. 21-2204).
