eMetric

1. eMetric https://solutions1.emetric.net/PSSA/Default.aspx Demo Site User Name: d9999 Password: emetric

2. Session Agenda • Overview eMetric • Available data reports • eMetric in the classroom • Question and answers

3. eMetric • An interactive tool for analyzing PSSA data by district, school, grade, subgroup, and student • Stores multiple years of data • PSSA and PASA data • Reporting category data

4. Things to Keep In Mind • Blue words indicate pull down menus • Scrolling over graphs gives other options and information • Have some questions in mind before you use the interactive web site; this will help you with sifting through the data

5. Data Analysis/ Discovery Solutions Data Informed Decision Making eMetric is a tool that helps organize data and generate graphs from the data.

7. Select either PSSA or PASA Boxes Allow Multiple Choices Radio Buttons Allow 1 Choice Only schools with the selected grade are displayed. Work your way down the screen Navigating the Home Screen

8. The PASA Screen

9. PASA More Selections

10. PASA Report

11. PSSA Types of Reports • Group Summary: Scaled Scores and Performance Levels • Group Summary: Reporting Categories • Graphical Summary: Performance Levels • Graphical Summary: Subscales • Individual Reports • Cohort Comparison • Matched Cohort Comparison • Longitudinal Individual Performance New New New

12. Group Summaries ‘Number Tested PL’ includes both PSSA students and PASA students with valid performance level scores ‘Number Tested’ includes only students who took PSSA with a valid scale score For the history data from 2004 through 2006, ‘Number Tested PL’ is the same as ‘Number Tested’ and includes only students with valid PSSA scores.

13. Getting Reports Easily Viewed on Screen Can be disaggregated or modified Getting Text Can be imported into Excel Can use the data to make your own graphs

14. Blue words mean there are drop down menus associated with the screen

16. Disaggregated Data

18. N Counts

19. Downloading and Saving Data

20. Drill To Roster

21. Distributed by Ethnicity

22. Cross Tabulated by Performance

23. Select a Student Drill To Roster

24. Student Data Report

25. Group Summary: Reporting Categories

26. Reporting Categories: Reading

27. Reporting Categories: Mathematics

28. Group Summary: Reporting Categories

29. Reporting Categories

30. Reporting Category Data

31. Calculate Percentages in Categories Number of Questions Percent Correct Average Correct

32. Graphical Summary: Performance Levels

34. Graphical Summary Three Types • Bar- Performance levels on one line • Histogram- Performance levels horizontally • Line- Plots the mean scaled score over time

35. View the percentage by scrolling over the line. Clicking on the line pulls up a drop down menu. Bar Graphs

36. Bar Graph Options Change views by clicking on the options at the bottom. These graphs can be cut and pasted into other documents.

37. Histogram • Clicking on the graph will also pull up a drop down menu, just like for bar graphs. • Both graphs can be drilled to roster.

38. Line Graphs

39. Graphical Summary: Reporting Categories

42. Individual Reports

44. Individual Reports

45. Search By

46. Individual Reports

47. eMetric in the Classroom • Helpful reports: • Summary Reports • Contain macro data for tested grade levels in building • Individual Performance • Create class rosters of student performance and reporting category data • Use Excel to manipulate the data

48. What to do with the reports • Summary Reports • Share with staff • Provides a snapshot of the performance of the grades in the building on all of the PSSA • Look at the reporting category data for the grade level • Individual Performance • Share with specific teachers • Analyze effectiveness of instruction for targeted anchors or response types • If looking at longitudinal results, examine trends over time

49. Questions Bonnie Dyer bonnie.dyer@aiu3.net