- Using PVAAS for a Purpose
- Key Concepts
- PEERS
- About PEERS
- Understanding the PEERS pages
- Evaluation List
- Evaluation Summary
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- Add Educator
- Add Evaluator
- Manage Access
- Add a school-level Educator to PEERS
- Add a district-level Educator to PEERS
- Add the Evaluator permission to a user's account
- Remove the Evaluator permission from a district user's account
- Add the Evaluator or Administrative Evaluator permission to a district user's account
- Remove the Administrative Evaluator permission from a district user's account
- Remove an Educator from PEERS
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- Assign an Educator to an Evaluator
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- Working with Evaluations
- Switch between Educator and Evaluator
- View an evaluation
- Use filters to display only certain evaluations
- Print the Summary section of an evaluation
- Understanding evaluation statuses
- Determine whether other evaluators have access to an evaluation
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- Save your changes
- Mark an evaluation as Ready for Conference
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- Download data from released evaluations to XLSX
- Make changes to an evaluation marked Ready for Conference
- Reports
- School Reports
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- Teacher Reports
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- Comparison Reports
- Human Capital Retention Dashboard
- Roster Verification (RV)
- Getting Started
- All Actions by Role
- All Actions for Teachers
- All Actions for School Administrators or Roster Approvers
- Manage teachers' access to RV
- Assign other school users the Roster Approver permission
- View a teacher's rosters
- Take control of a teacher's rosters
- Add and remove rosters for a teacher
- Copy a roster
- Apply a percentage of instructional time to every student on a roster
- Batch print overclaimed and underclaimed students
- Remove students from a roster
- Add a student to a roster
- Return a teacher's rosters to the teacher
- Approve a teacher's rosters
- Submit your school's rosters to the district
- All Actions for district admin or district roster approvers
- Assign other LEA/district users the Roster Approver permission
- Take control of a school's rosters
- View a teacher's rosters
- View the history of a teacher's rosters
- Edit a teacher's rosters
- Add and remove rosters for a teacher
- Copy a roster
- Apply a percentage of instructional time to every student on a roster
- Batch print overclaimed and underclaimed students
- Return a school's rosters to the school
- Approve rosters that you have verified
- Submit your district's rosters
- Understanding the RV Pages
- Viewing the History of Actions on Rosters
- Additional Resources
- Admin Help
- General Help
Building-Level Score and PVAAS Average Growth Index
This document describes how PVAAS transforms value-added measures into building-level scores.
The average growth index (AGI) represents growth in the building-level score. We convert the AGI to a 100-point scale for use in the building-level score.
AGI
The AGI is a reliable measure of whether a school's students exceeded, met, or fell short of the growth standard for each tested subject. This value takes into account the amount of growth the students made, on average, as well as the amount of evidence for that measure. Specifically, the AGI is the growth measure divided by the standard error. A separate AGI is calculated for each Keystone content area.
The values displayed in PVAAS reports are rounded, but the values used to calculate AGIs are not. As a result, an AGI might not equal the result of dividing a growth measure by its standard error.
AGIs are color-coded based on the rules for value-added reports.
| Growth Color Indicator | Average Growth Index | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Well Above | 2.00 or higher | Significant evidence that the group of students exceeded the growth standard |
| Above | Between 1.00 and 2.00 | Moderate evidence that the group of students exceeded the growth standard |
| Meets | Between -1.00 and 1.00 | Evidence that the group of students met the growth standard |
| Below | Between -1.00 and -2.00 | Moderate evidence that the group of students did not meet the growth standard |
| Well Below | -2.00 or lower | Significant evidence that the group of students did not meet the growth standard |
Building-Level Scale Score
Each AGI is converted to a 100-point scale following these rules.
| If the AGI is | The Scale Score is |
|---|---|
3.00 or greater | 100 |
Less than 3.00 but greater than or equal to 1.00 | 10 x (AGI + 7), truncated to a whole number |
Less than 1.00 but greater than or equal to -1.00 | 5 x (AGI + 15), truncated to a whole number |
| Less than -1.00 but greater than or equal to -3.00 | 10 x (AGI + 8), truncated to a whole number |
| Less than -3.00 | 50 |
The following table illustrates the relationship between the AGI, the growth color indicator, and the building-level scale score.
| AGI Color Indicator | AGI | Scale Score Conversion Formula | Scale Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Blue | 3.00 or higher | Scale Score = 100 | 100 |
| Dark Blue | Between 2.00 and 3.00 | Scale Score = 10 x (AGI + 7), truncated to a whole number | Between 90 and 99 |
| Light Blue | Between 1.00 and 2.00 | Scale Score = 10 x (AGI + 7), truncated to a whole number | Between 80 and 89 |
| Green | Between -1.00 and 1.00 | Scale Score = 5 x (AGI + 15), truncated to a whole number | Between 70 and 79 |
| Yellow | Between -1.00 and -2.00 | Scale Score = 10 x (AGI + 8), truncated to a whole number | Between 60 and 69 |
| Red | Between -3.00 and -2.00 | Scale Score = 10 x (AGI + 8), truncated to a whole number | Between 50 and 59 |
| Red | Less than -3.00 | Scale Score = 50 | 50 |