Access and Resources
Title I School Improvement Grant Writing Workshop
October 10, 2012
Amended6/7/13 for Harrison County Schools’ School Improvement Conference
The WV Growth Model: Our Purpose
• To provide an answer to a few common questions:
1. “How much did my student grow this year?”
2. “What does this growth mean compared to everyone else?”
3. “Is it enough growth?”
What do these three questions have in common?
Information about students
Does the WV Growth Model Fit Our Needs?
Priority Model “Fit”
1. Meet the personal needs of each student
1. Student data more reflective of a student’s story and history
2. Elevate the importance of great teachers and learning
2. Data in the hands of teachers about learning (beyond growth)
3. Make the improvement of public education a moral imperative of all stakeholders
3. Making data more accessible to change conversations? That’s dependent on us…
4. Accelerate innovation and transform schools to address Global21 demands
4. Maximizing the uses of the data that we currently use
Status vs. Growth
• Before growth, let’s review terms
• Status: A snapshot measure of a single point in time – “Proficiency”
• Growth: Multiple snapshots across many points in time
Status vs. Growth A Balanced Approach
Low Growth High Growth
Quadrant 2
High achieving but potentially
declining: previously
unrecognized under status
model
Quadrant 1
High achievement and growth: A
potential site of interest for best
practices
Quadrant 3
Low achievement and growth:
Legitimately requires
improvement
Quadrant 4
Low achieving but improving:
previously unrecognized under
the current status model. May be
a potential site of interest for best
practices.
High
Performing
(Status)
Low
Performing
(Status)
Measuring Growth
Measuring Growth
• Uses all available data to answer three questions: • Am I proficient? • How much did I grow? • Is it enough growth?
• The WV Growth Model yields: • Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs)
• What are SGPs? • How much did students grow compared to
everyone else? • Think height and rate of growth
What is a Student Growth Percentile?
• Given (3 things): • A student’s prior scale scores
• Academically similar students
• Current scale score
• A student’s current scale score represents a percentile of growth – a Student Growth Percentile
• Think of it as the probability of a student’s current achievement based on their past achievement: • (Current Achievement|Past Achievement)
• Growth percentiles describe the probability/rarity of a student’s current achievement based upon their prior achievement.
Measuring Growth
• What is the likelihood of current (and future) performance given past performance?
• Based on students who have similar academic histories (academic cohort)
• Uses all available data to answer those three prior questions: • Am I proficient? (Status)
• How much did I grow? (SGPs)
• Is it enough growth? (Growth to Standard)
Our Growth Options
• How much growth? – Starts with the student. Can be aggregated to drive school conversations
• Low Growth (bad surprises)
• Typical Growth (a statistical expectation)
• High Growth (good surprises)
• Is it enough growth? – Can drive student learning conversations
• Catching Up
• Keeping Up
• Falling Behind
Why do we care?
• Why growth? 4 Driving Questions 1. How much growth did my student
exhibit?
2. What does this growth mean?
3. How much growth does my student need to be proficient in the future?
4. How likely is this growth?
• Student Reports – the primary benefit of the WV Growth Model
Available Sources of Data
• Public Growth Website
• WVEIS Private Site for District Personnel and Principals
• WVEIS on the Web (WOW) Principal and Teacher Access
Available Reports
• Student – Individual and Aggregate
• Grade/School
• District
• State
Student Reports: Aggregate
Student Report – Individual
Grade/School Reports: Bubble Plots
Grade/School Reports: WVEIS
Resources for All Reports
Resources and Access to Data
• http://wvde.state.wv.us/growth
• District staff
• Rostered Teachers
• Principals and School Administrators
Rostered Teachers
• Public Webpage • Welcome • About the model • Sample reports and resources • Accessing data
• http://wveis.k12.wv.us/teachers/ • Tutorials on how to obtain a WOW login and
Password • A link to and display of the public growth site
for support materials • WESTEST 2 Growth Model App for student
data access
Principals and School Administrators
• WVEIS Private Site • https://wveis.k12.wv.us/nclb/private • *Growth Model-School link can be found
at the bottom of the Data On-Demand page
• http://wveis.k12.wv.us/teachers/ • Tutorials on how to obtain a WOW login
and Password • A link to and display of the public growth
site for support materials • WESTEST 2 Growth Model App for student
data access
WVEIS on the WEB http://wveis.k12.wv.us
WVEIS on the WEB
WVEIS on the WEB
WVEIS on the WEB
WVEIS on the WEB
WVEIS on the WEB
Public
• Public Webpage
• http://wvde.state.wv.us/growth/
• Welcome
• About the model
• Sample reports and resources
• Public access to data
• To be developed over the course of the year.
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