Transcript Global Scholar Data Interpretation

Lee County Schools
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Understand components of the gains
analysis report
Review and manipulate assessment gains
data for your own schools
Utilize strategies and resources to
individualize instruction for students so
they can meet or exceed Target Goals for the
year
Q. How does Performance Series measure growth?
A. It is a computer-adaptive skills diagnostic assessment,
independent of enrolled grade level.
Student growth is compared to students from a normed
national sample who are in the same grade level and
have similar scaled scores.
~information pulled from Global Scholar
Q. Why would using growth be different than utilizing
other test data?
A. Using the average national growth data enables
educators to measure students fairly because each
student is being compared to growth from other
students who performed similarly to them.
Since students may begin the school year at vastly
different levels, PS allows teachers to measure the
progress each student makes based on their
incoming ability level, rather than a ‘one size fits all’
growth target.
~information pulled from Global Scholar
Observed
Average
Gains
Gains
Report
Growth Targets/Goals
Growth Targets are set by observing the average growth achieved by students
nationally who performed similarly in the Fall administration.
Growth Performance Categories
A Growth Performance Category is assigned by comparing each student's
performance with nationally observed gains data. The Growth Performance
Categories are:
Category
Fall to Spring Gains
Far
Below
bottom 15%
Below
between 16-50%
Above
between 51-85%
Far
Above
top 15%
Everyone learns
at a different rate!
Growth
Targets/Goals
Grade 5 Math
Growth Targets are set by observing
the average growth achieved by
students nationally who performed
similarly in the Fall administration.
Example:
Ava Good, 5th grade student,
took PS Math in fall. She
received a 2380. Scaled Score.
For Ava to stay in the 4th Decile
by spring, she would need to
grow 132.70 points.
No significant gain…did not meet target
How does growth affect
performance?
A 4th grade class takes the Reading assessment in fall
and spring.
The two bars represent the scaled score ranges for the
class, for each administration of the test.
1300
3700
The star represents a student’s score on
each test administration. His/Her
National Percentile Rank stays the same,
even though he/she has grown.
Everybody is
moving. Therefore,
the student must
move more to
increase
performance.
Student level report:
A
B
C
Gain
D
Growth
Which student showed
the greatest gains
from testing period one
to testing period 2?
Which student showed
the greatest growth
from testing period
one to testing period
2?
 Have
your teachers use growth targets as
guides to setting academic goals for students,
classes, and for monitoring progress
 What factors led students to meet/not meet the gains target, from the
previous testing window? What influence, if any, do I and/or teachers
have over these factors?
 Continuously
refer back to SLOs to differentiate
instruction based on student needs
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How can I further use growth data with SLOs to guide instruction?
Involve students in growth targets
 How do we ensure that students meet their goals/targets?
 How do we relay PS goals to students?
 Some
slides and information were pulled
from the Global Scholar (GS) web site
and/or GS webinars.
 Information
will be used within our
district for training purposes only.