Measuring Success
The Alliance performs ongoing evaluation to document best practices achieved, provide data for continuous improvement, and most importantly, inform parents and the community about the degree to which Alliance schools are achieving their stated goals for individual students. An individual personal learning plan is maintained for each student to identify his or her needs, interests and progress toward proficiency on core content standards, proficiency in English language development and college-readiness. Alliance schools provide multiple ongoing opportunities to measure student learning and to inform instruction through real life projects, analysis of student work portfolios, and interim assessments as well as standardized on-demand assessments.
Student learning plans include electronic portfolios of selected student work that demonstrates proficiency in applying skills and concepts in real life project-based learning.
Alliance schools also conduct interim assessments in core content standards in reading, math, science and history/social science. Interim assessments inform instruction and provide immediate individual student information on progress toward proficiency on California state standards. Secondary students take CSU 11th grade early entrance assessment and CSU placement tests as a key indicator of college-readiness.
Alliance monitors, documents, evaluates and publishes implementation results and student outcome results for each of its schools, and contracts with a third party evaluator to document and evaluate the implementation of the school model and results. Alliance schools have seen some of the highest academic achievement gains in California and rank among the top ten schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.