The California Department of Education (CDE) annually calculates the Academic Performance Index (API) to measure the academic performance and progress of every California public school. Currently the API is based solely on statewide assessment results. Beginning in 2015–16, state assessment results may not constitute more than 60 percent of a high school's API. The remaining 40 percent of a high school's API must be from indicators other than state assessments, such as graduation and college and career indicators.
To help with the important task of adding new indicators into the high school API, the CDE invites you to participate in a brief survey on this topic. Before taking the survey, you may want to view a nine-minute video which provides background on two possible indicators (i.e., graduation and college and career). Viewing the video is not required to participate in the survey.
The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. The survey will end on June 20, 2013.
- API Survey Video
(English)
- El Video de Encuesta del Indice de Rendimiento Academico
(Spanish)
- Take the API Survey English (CDE Survey)
- Tome la Encuesta en Español (Encuesta de CDE)
