The Three-Year Performance-Based Teacher License would require placement within a Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) growth component subject area or areas in grades 5-8. While high school level assessments in English Language Arts and Mathematics are used for the calculation of growth, those assessments may be banked for as many as three years as in the case of a student who takes Algebra I in the seventh grade. Therefore, the high school level assessments in English Language Arts and Mathematics would not provide an accurate assessment of a PBL candidate’s impact on the grade-level to grade-level growth of their students.
