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District narrows advanced‑learning gatekeeping by changing identification criteria, expands participation
Summary
District officials told the Teaching, Learning & Equity Committee on July 15 that changes to assessment criteria and local norms led to large increases in identified advanced learners and greater racial and English‑learner representation.
Beloit Area School District leaders told the Teaching, Learning & Equity (TLE) Committee on July 15 they revised how they identify advanced learners so that local norms, not only national norms, determine eligibility — a change they said expanded access without lowering academic expectations.
The change, presented by Theresa Morteck, Executive Director of Teaching, Learning & Equity, and Christy Champion, the district’s lead advanced learning specialist, shifts some assessment cutoffs to building‑ or district‑level percentiles and adds multiple measures including the CogAT, MAP, and Torrance tests.
“This is really the work that the team has been focused on…we looked at our assessments, and what we changed was the criteria, not the expectation of the level of rigor,”…
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