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Pathways to the Prize
Lessons from the 2011 SCORE Prize District Winner
Pathways to the Prize
Lessons from the 2011 SCORE Prize District Winner
The SCORE Prize annually awards $10,000 to the
elementary, middle, and high school and $25,000
to one district in Tennessee that have most dramatically improved student achievement. In awarding the
SCORE Prize, SCORE aims to recognize those schools
and districts that are doing the hard work of education
reform, highlight and share their best practices, and
show other schools and districts throughout Tennessee
that improvement is possible.
All public schools and districts are eligible for the SCORE
Prize. In 2011, winners were chosen in a two-step process.
For the first phase, SCORE used a multi-staged criteria selection process to narrow the schools and districts down to
finalists. This process ensured that schools and districts met
a certain benchmark before advancing to the next round.
The criteria that each school or district had to meet
to advance are listed in order below:
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Schools and districts must have an attendance rate of
93 percent or higher
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The school or district must have a TVAAS three-year
growth standard t-statistic of at least 1.5 in both
reading and math
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Remaining schools and districts were ranked by their
two-year change in TCAP scores on reading and math
and their TVAAS three-year growth standard
TVAAS was weighted three times heavier than TCAP
in our selection process. This weighting was intended
to ensure that schools exhibiting high growth were also
achieving at a high enough level to prepare students for
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next steps. A series of complementary analyses were also
conducted t