STUDENT GROWTH PERCENTILE Measuring Student Learning Growth and Interpreting the Teacher Report

1. STUDENT GROWTH PERCENTILE Measuring Student Learning Growth and Interpreting the Teacher Report Diane Fiello, Vice President of TCRP Harris Luu, TCRP Leadership Coach

2. Measuring Student Learning Growth in The College Ready Promise Schools:Our Objectives • Reviewthe TCRP theoretical framework? • What are multiple measure and how is it used to assess teacher performance? • Howcanstudent learning growth be measured? • How will The College Ready Promise report student, teacher and school learning (reading and interpreting the teacher report)?

3. TCRP Theoretical Framework • Effective Principals • Support • Evaluate • Effective Teachers • Recruit • Support • Evaluate • Compensate • Increase Student Achievement • Data Systems

4. Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness CST-Tested Subjects Non-CST-Tested Subjects

5. What is Student Learning Growth? • Achievement results tell us what each student knows at a single point in time. • Student learning growth tells us how much each student progresses from one year to the next. • Both types of information are important. 600 400 Advanced 23 349 Proficient 17 345 CST ELA SCALE SCORE 322 Basic 299 305 270 Below Basic Far Below Basic 150 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8

6. How is Learning Growth Being Measured Across the United States? Growth to Standard Models How much do students need to grow each year to reach Proficiency Value-added Models Did the school or teacher cause an amount of learning growth that is statistically above, at, or below expectation Student Growth Percentile Models How much do students grow compared to similar students

7. What are Student Growth Percentiles? • measure how much a student has learned from one year to the next compared to other students with similar test scores • expressed as a percentile from 1 to 99

8. Student Growth Percentile Example (Elijah) 600 Similar Students 400 Advanced SGP 99 40% 349 Proficient 330 CST ELA SCALE SCORE SGP = 60 50 305 Basic 299 60% 270 1 Below Basic Far Below Basic 150 Grade 6 Grade 7

9. Student Growth Percentile Example (Rosa) SGP 600 99 400 91% Advanced 385 50 352 SGP = 9 349 9% Proficient 1 CST ELA SCALE SCORE Basic 299 Similar Students 270 Below Basic Far Below Basic 150 Grade 6 Grade 7

10. Student Growth Percentile Example (Jimmy) 600 400 Advanced 349 Proficient Similar Students CST ELA SCALE SCORE Basic 299 17% SGP = 83 270 Below Basic 273 83% 186 Far Below Basic 150 Grade 6 Grade 7

11. Key Concepts about Measuring Growth Growth is distinct from achievement A student can achieve at a low level but grow quickly, and vice versa (Jimmy, Rosa, Elijah) Each student is compared only to theiracademic peers (students with similar achievement levels) The comparison base for TCRP is all 2nd to 11th grade students in TCRP & LAUSD Demographic variables, socio-economic status and initial achievement have virtually no impact on student growth results.

12. Reporting SGPs for Groups • Imagine that the list of students to the left are all the students in your 7th grade class. • Note that the SGPs are sorted from lowest to highest. • The point where 50% of students have a higher SGP, and 50% have a lower SGP is the median. Last nameSGP Hernandez 21 Bing 24 Johnson 27 Harrison 32 Morales 34 Portis 47 Jackson 55 Stills 61 Lund 63 Hershberg 74 James 81 Andres 88 Sims 95 • Median SGP for this • 7th grade class is55.

13. Practice Find the median SGP of the following group of students. First name SGP Joey7 Mariell8 Bella14 Bianca32 Jordon40 Veronica 51 Noe56 Jorge61 Linda63 Victor71 James 80 Angela88 Dionne89 Araceli 92 Hint: Place the scores from lowest to highest. If the middle number is the “median”. If there is an even number of scores, take mean/ average of the 2 middle scores.

14. Teacher Effectiveness Rubric Scores Ranges for teacher SGP used to determine teacher effectiveness levels were selected based on statistical evaluation.

15. Reading the Teacher Report Objectives • To gain a better understanding of how to read • the Teacher Report • To analyze the data • To interpret the data • To make decisions based on the data

16. Four Components of the Teacher Report School and Department Means Criteria for Valid Scores Scatterplot Student Roster

17. School and Department Medians All Subjects History

18. Criteria for Valid Scores

19. Scatterplot SGP = 5 CST = 233 SGP = 99 CST = 430 SGP = 4 CST = 219

20. Scatterplot

21. Practice

22. Student Roster

23. Measuring Student Learning Growth in The College Ready Promise Schools:Reviewing Objectives • The TCRP theoretical framework has a goal of improving student achievement. • The multiple measures used to assess teacher performance are SGP, teacher practice, student feedback, and family feedback. • Student learning growth is measured by SGP (student growth percentiles) • SGP is growth measured with a cohort of academic peers from one year to the next, using CST results. • The College Ready Promise reports includes 4 elements: school and department means, valid scores, a scatter plot, and student roster