Impact on Student Learning
• The conversation is about “multiple indicators”
for this category
BUT
• Few if any places actually have viable multiple
indicators
• The prime and in most cases only indicator here
is a “value added measure derived from state
summative, accountability tests”
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First Set of Ideas: Chart 1
Chart 1
• Interim assessments given monthly
• Student data aggregated to classroom
• Red squares are progress line for similar
classes of students in a state (or nation)
• Green triangles are actual class progress
• Yellow star is state proficiency level
• Shows growth during the months of just the
academic year
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Chart 1
• Modest student learning when the class had a
substitute teacher
• Growth happened when regular teacher returned
• Actual class growth (green triangles) was much
greater than the reference norm (red squares)
• In value added terms, the class would have a
high value added – performance growth was
above the average (the red square trend line) for
this typical classroom
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Chart 1
How to use these data:
1. Shows class performed above the state proficiency level
2. Shows class performed above similar classes
3. So compare end of year score on interim assessments
with end of year score on state summative test – both
show exceeded proficiency?
4. Computer “standard deviation” of change – fall to spring
and COMPARE to “standard deviation” of change on state
summative test
5. Compare end-of-year interim assessment score to end-ofyear state proficiency score, in terms of standard deviation
above proficiency level, or standard deviation of growth
over the year
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Chart 1
How to use these data:
6. Compare growth of this class to other classes:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
In the same school
In the same district
With similar demographics
In the same state
Across the nation
To classes in schools with similar demographics
Many different ways to use the data in such a
Chart
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