Data Sgp provides educators with an effective means of better comprehending student progress data. Teachers can view individual student growth reports based on each state’s curve. This data allows educators to pinpoint areas of need within classrooms as well as implement targeted differentiation techniques for all their students.
This tool leverages longitudinal assessment data to compare students with academically similar peers – providing insight into student performance. The comparison reveals student strengths and weaknesses and can be used to make instructional decisions or support educator evaluation systems. Specifically, standard assessments are compared with test scores from similar students using latent achievement trait models that reduce estimation error while increasing validity of comparisons.
Each year, assessment data for every student in each school is collected. This data is weighted and averaged out into scores that can then be plotted on an arithmetic curve and ranked against similar academic histories; when one ranks higher than their peers this signifies greater than expected growth.
Teachers can then utilize this data to assess their students, including counting those who fall outside the curve and have not made enough growth to meet their target scores. Reports such as these can then be provided to parents and communities while districts and schools use them to enhance instruction and support students’ progression.
To use this tool, educators must first register with a state to gain access to individual test score and student growth reports for all their students tested, in terms of how each subject was performed and its relation to state curve. Once registered, educators can view reports that provide insight into student performances on each subject tested as well as any steps needed for meeting state or district goals.
Teachers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota Montana and North Carolina currently can access this tool, with more states set to release their data later in the year. Each state website contains links where data can be found; to gain entry simply enter a code provided by each district and access.
Data Sgp requires access to longitudinal student assessment data and is designed for easy use. Typically, this kind of data is stored in WIDE format with each case/row representing one student and each column representing variables associated with him/her at different points in time. This information can be provided in two forms: Window Specific SGPs are intended to compare or report student growth between specific time frames; Current SGPs provide only the latest available SGP data for any particular student. Both formats require access to the SGPstateData meta-data. This contains values such as VALID_CASE, CONTENT_AREA, YEAR_ID and SCALE_SCORE as well as teacher ID (which can be translated to an individual lookup table by using SGPData_INSTRUCTORNUMBER).
