Measuring Student Growth: Terms you need to know
Status model: A method for measuring how students perform at one point in time. For example, the percent of fourth graders scoring at proficient or above in 2006.
Growth model: A method for measuring the amount of academic progress each student makes between two points in time. For example, Johnny showed a fifty point growth by improving his math score from three hundred last year in the fourth grade to three hundred fifty on this year's fifth grade exam.
Value-Added model: A method of measuring the degree in which teachers, schools, or education programs improve student performance.
Achievement level: Established categories of performance that describe how well students have mastered the knowledge and skills being assessed. For this guide, we use advanced, proficient, basic, andbelow basic for achievement levels. Proficient or above is assumed to represent the level that meets the state standard.
Scale score: A single numeric score that shows the overall performance on a standardized test. Typically, a raw score (number of questions answered correctly) is converted to a scale score according to the difficulty of the test and/or individual items. (For example, the 200–800 scale used for the SAT.)
Vertical scale scores: Numeric scores on standardized tests that have been constructed so that the scale used for scoring is the same for two or more grade levels. Hence, a student's scale score gain over multiple years represents the student's level of academic growth over that period of time.
Status model: A method for measuring how students perform at one point in time. For example, the percent of fourth graders scoring at proficient or above in 2006.
Growth model: A method for measuring the amount of academic progress each student makes between two points in time. For example, Johnny showed a fifty point growth by improving his math score from three hundred last year in the fourth grade to three hundred fifty on this year's fifth grade exam.
Value-Added model: A method of measuring the degree in which teachers, schools, or education programs improve student performance.
Achievement level: Established categories of performance that describe how well students have mastered the knowledge and skills being assessed. For this guide, we use advanced, proficient, basic, andbelow basic for achievement levels. Proficient or above is assumed to represent the level that meets the state standard.
Scale score: A single numeric score that shows the overall performance on a standardized test. Typically, a raw score (number of questions answered correctly) is converted to a scale score according to the difficulty of the test and/or individual items. (For example, the 200–800 scale used for the SAT.)
Vertical scale scores: Numeric scores on standardized tests that have been constructed so that the scale used for scoring is the same for two or more grade levels. Hence, a student's scale score gain over multiple years represents the student's level of academic growth over that period of time.
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Google Document To Track Progress
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