September 2014
PVAAS Statewide Team for PDE pdepvaas@iu13.org

 Reporting Releases
 New Features
 PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting
 Professional Development
 PVAAS and PIMS
 PVAAS Roster Verification
 EE Online System by SAS EVAAS
 IU PVAAS Contracts

 PVAAS Restricted Site (District/School/Projections):
 September 19, 2014 (District Admin account holder only)
 Night of Sept 18 th – tonight!
 September 24, 2014 (All PVAAS account holders, including IU staff holding accounts for access to LEA PVAAS reporting)
 Night of Sept 23rd
 PVAAS Public Site: October 8, 2014
 Night of Oct 7th
 PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting
 Oct 23: District and School Admins
 Oct 30: Teachers with PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting
 Nov 3: ½ day Teacher Trainings Begin

 Does the right person hold this account?
 Superintendent/CEO/Director OR Designee by
Supt/CEO/Director
 Automatically has access to ALL teacher reporting
 Communication to Superintendents/CEOs from IU
 Penn*Link from PDE in August 2014

• File of All LEA/District
Launchpads to each IU
• PDF Format
• IU to Send to
Supt/Assist Supt

 Can now EXPORT PVAAS district, school, and teacher value added reporting, as well as student projection reporting.
 Can also export Roster Data from SY13-14 when PVAAS Teacher
Specific Reporting is released
 District Admin has access automatically
 S/He can CHOOSE to assign access to District Users and/or School
Admins.
 Areas of caution…(control & distribution of data, other analysis, outside requests, right to know/e-mailing data)
 Two webinars held in August
 Recording posted to PVAAS site, Go to e-Learning link

Export of PVAAS Roster Data
(Available with release of teacher reporting)
 Teacher PPID
 Teacher last name
 Teacher first name
 District name
 AUN
 School name
 School number
 School Year
 Semester
 Test
 Subject
 Grade
 Student name
 Student PAsecureID
 % Student + Teacher Enrollment
(integer)
 Full or Partial % of Instruction
(integer)
 % Total (to one decimal place)
NOTE:
• Can use for % Proficient/Advanced for EE teacher specific data
• Grade 3 not available in RV system for SY13-14
• Grade 3 - option in PIMS/PVAAS collection/RV; % accurate not needed

 Old demo site gone  New one in place
 Includes:
 All reporting on LEA site
 Schools with multiple years of data
 Teacher Reporting
 New logins
 Available Night of 9/25

**Access to Student Level Data is Required
 Student Search
 LEA/School Admin provides access to teacher
 Custom Student Report
 School Admin creates Custom Student report(s)
 By Grade/Course
 By Teacher’s specific group of students
 School Admin assigned Custom Student Report access to teacher
 Export by LEA
 LEA/District Admin
 School Admin (if permission given to School Admin)
 Access through Local Student Data Management System

 Can be created by School Admin & School
Users with account management permissions. They can then share access to selected Custom Student Report(s) with
School Users.
 Provides a way to give teachers access to student data for their students or a grade/course, without giving access to all students in the school.

SY13-14 Release in Fall 2014

“A student assigned to a very good teacher for a single school year may gain up to a full year’s worth of additional academic growth compared to a student assigned to a very poor teacher. Having a series of strong or weak teachers in consecutive years compounds the impact. Give high-need students three highly effective teachers in a row and they may outperform students taught by three ineffective teachers in a row by as much as 50 percentile points.”
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3 For information about the impact of teacher effectiveness on student outcomes, see Rivkin, S.,
E. Hanushek, and J. Kain (2005). “Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement,” Econometrica,
73(2), 417-458. Also see Sanders, W.L. and Rivers, J.C. (1996). “Research Project Report:
Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on Future Student Academic Achievement,”
University of Tennessee Value-Added Research and Assessment Center; and Rockoff, J. E. (2004).
“The Impact of Individual Teachers on Students’ Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data.”
American Economic Review 94(2), 247-52.
From the Widget Effect

 PVAAS Teacher Reporting
 Oct 23: District and School Admins
 Oct 30: Teachers with PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting
 Nov 3: ½ day Teacher Trainings Begin
 NO PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting in PSSA
Writing Grade 5 & 8
 New ELA Assessment
 Low Correlation at Teacher Level
 Penn*Link to LEAs
 In process with above info

 Automatic access given to the 1 LEA/District
Admin account holder and each School Admin account holder
 LEA Controlled Online LEA Assigning and
Approval Process
 Approver and Assigner roles
 Resource Doc on Account Management
 Mini-Webex under Admin tab

Roster Verification follow-up:
Over-claiming students across LEAs
 See RV data in PVAAS system for over-claimed students as of close of RV
 Proportional split of student between teachers
 Prior to analyses for teacher reporting
 Student-teacher linkages were removed for any charters/cyber charters who:
 Did not intend to participate in RV
 Did not intend to receive PVAAS Teacher
Specific Reporting
 List of LEAs with removed linkages is available upon request

SY14-15

 All staff providing support for fall sessions should participate live. (Or, if unavailable to join live, view the recording.)
 Two Repeat Sessions Scheduled
 First session held September 16
 Still time to join the September 23 rd session!
 September 23, 2014 at 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
 Please register (up to 9/23) by e-mailing pdepvaas@iu13.org
 Webinar will be held using Microsoft Lync. Participants are highly encouraged to install the Lync Web App plugin prior to the sessions dates.
 Can’t make the live session? Request access to a recorded session: pdepvaas@iu13.org
.
 More on logistics than content.
 May review some content related to any follow-up or questions from Capacity Building sessions, depending on need

• Updated F2F Overview Materials o
Being updated now
• Updated PVAAS Consultation Materials o
Being updated now
• PVAAS Roll-Out PPTs o o
Contain place holders for district and school data
1.
Concept of Growth & Value-Added
2.
3.
Performance Diagnostic
Student Projections
Being updated

 Three, 60-minute sessions
 Designed as a series, but can be viewed as stand-alone sessions.
Session Title
Using and Understanding PVAAS:
A Focus on District and School Reporting
Using and Understanding PVAAS:
A Focus on Teacher Specific Reporting
Using and Understanding PVAAS:
A Focus on Student Projection Reporting
Date & Time
Sept 8, 2014, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Sept 23, 2014, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Sept 9, 2014, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Sept 24, 2014, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Sept 10, 2014, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Sept 25, 2014, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
 Sessions will be recorded, and links posted on the PVAAS site under the e-Learning link.
 If you’d like a link to a recorded session prior to it being added to the site, please e-mail pdepvaas@iu13.org
.

 PVAAS: Ready, Set, Grow!
 Full day session for LEA Administrator teams; trainthe-trainer model
 LEA teams of Four (could include Superintendent,
Assistant Superintendent, Principal, Assistant Principal,
Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Director of
Professional Development, Director of Special
Education/Pupil Services, subject area supervisor)
 PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting:
Professional Growth, Not Gotcha
 Half day sessions for teachers and admins

 Registration Update (how is registration going?)
 Questions?
 Our team will touch base 2-3 weeks in advance regarding registrations (in addition to requesting a final list of those who attended)
 Want participants to have the best possible experience!
 Give districts time to adjust if changes are made to the schedule (e.g., session is cancelled due to low numbers)

 Tuesday Afternoons, October 7 – December 16*,
2:30 – 4:00 pm
*No session Tuesday, Nov 25
 Thursday mornings, October 9 – December 18*,
7:30 – 9:00 am
*No session Thursday, Nov 27
 More information in the PVAAS SY14-15
Professional Development Opportunities booklet, at the top of the PVAAS login page, https://pvaas.sas.com
.

 PVAAS District/School Level Attribution for Keystone
Courses
 Course/HQT
 Not connected to PVAAS RV
 PVAAS Roster Verification
 Staff/Student/Subtest Collection
 JUST for PVAAS RV
 PIMS School Enrollment: Monthly/More Frequent in Fall
 Currently Enrolled Students
 GIEP
 504 Students
 PIMS Staff Template: Creation of New School User
Accounts ONLY

Spring 2015

 LEA Preview Window, by school (1 week)
 April 27-May 3, 2015
 Teacher Verification Window (2 weeks)
 May 4-17, 2015
 School Administrator Verification Window (2 weeks)
 May 18-31, 2015
 LEA Verification Window (2 weeks)
 June 1-14, 2015

 Three sessions scheduled
Session Title
PVAAS Account Management:
Preparing for Roster Verification
Date & Time
Jan 27, 2015, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Jan 28, 2015, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Jan 29, 2015, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
 Sessions will be recorded!
 More information in the PVAAS SY14-15
Professional Development Opportunities booklet, at the top of the PVAAS login page, https://pvaas.sas.com
.

 Four sessions scheduled
Session Title Date & Time
PVAAS Roster Verification
Training
Feb 5, 2015, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Feb 11, 2015, 8:30-11:30 a.m.
Feb 17, 2015, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Feb 23, 2015, 8:30-11:30 a.m.
 Sessions will be recorded!
 More information in the PVAAS SY 14-15
Professional Development Opportunities booklet, at the top of the PVAAS login page, https://pvaas.sas.com
.

 Tuesday Afternoons, April 28 – June 9, 2015,
2:30 – 4:00 pm
 Thursday mornings, April 30 – June 11, 2015,
7:30 – 9:00 am
 More information in the PVAAS SY 14-15
Professional Development Opportunities booklet, at the top of the PVAAS login page, https://pvaas.sas.com
.

 Teacher and Principal Evaluation System
 Secure access is available to final summary rating reports (82-1, 82-2, 82-3)
 Participation is FREE for all LEAs
 Participation is voluntary for all LEAs

 Access is available through current PVAAS accounts or accounts that will be created locally
 More than one evaluator may have access to an individual’s rating form during the input phase in developing the summative report
 System pre-populates the SPP
 System pre-populates the teacher-specific component for the PVAAS 3-year rolling average

 LEAs/Districts may determine and choose year of available data (year prior or current year).
 LEAs/Districts may determine the weighting/% for each type of teacher specific data.
 System can be used alone, in lieu of PDE Excel documents posted, or in combination with other supervision systems.

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 Check Moodle for Current Doc
 Email pdepvaas@iu13.org
with any changes
 If possible by tomorrow (Friday Sept 19)