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.