Note that the new standards have been designed so that retention times placement must equal at least 50 percent for a program to be at the accreditation level.
When assessing the GED or high school diploma attainment rate for membership reasons, if a program cycle has stu-dents with different incoming reading levels, the TABE reading tests levels are averaged and the standard level for that average test
level is used.
| PERFORMANCE STANDARD |
Excellent |
Very Good |
Satisfactory |
Needing
Attention |
Unacceptable |
| Average monthly attendance for all enrolled participants |
93-100% |
85-92% |
80-84% |
70-79% |
Below 70% |
| Retention of enrollees(completion rates) |
82-100% |
71-81% |
63-70% |
50-62% |
Below 50% |
| Placement of completers |
90-100% |
86-89% |
86-89% |
61-78% |
Less than 61% |
| Placement of enrollees |
|
|
50% |
|
|
| Wage of completers |
At least 51%
above state minimum wage |
25-50% above
state minimum wage |
15-24% above
state minimum wage |
0-14% above
state minimum wage |
NA
(below minimum
wage is impossible) |
| Educational achievement (GED or diploma) of groups entering at 8th grade level or above |
76-100% |
61-75% |
46-60% |
30-45% |
Less than 30% |
| GED/HSD attainment of students entering between 4th- and 8th-grade levels |
65-100% |
51-64% |
36-50% |
26-35% |
Less than 26% |
| Leadership development and voter registration of all students eligible to vote |
|
|
95% will be registered to vote |
Less than 95% of those eligible will be registered to vote |
|
| Educational testing (lit-eracy and numeracy) gains. This will apply to all completers, including those who get their GED or HSD |
TBD |
TBD |
80% will gain 2 years' levels |
TBD |
TBD |
