- Using PVAAS for a Purpose
- Key Concepts
- PEERS
- About PEERS
- Understanding the PEERS pages
- Evaluation List
- Evaluation Summary
- Evaluation Forms
- 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
- Restore a removed Educator
- Assign an Educator to a district-level Evaluator
- Assign an Educator to an Evaluator
- Unassign an Educator from an Evaluator
- Assign an Educator to a school
- Unassign an Educator from a school
- Link a PVAAS account to an Educator
- 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
- Lock or unlock an evaluation
- Save your changes
- Mark an evaluation as Ready for Conference
- Release one or more evaluations
- Download data from released evaluations to XLSX
- Make changes to an evaluation marked Ready for Conference
- Reports
- School Reports
- LEA/District Reports
- Teacher Reports
- Student Reports
- 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
CDT and Local Assessments
PVAAS offers LEA/district, school, and student-level reporting based on local assessments. This includes but is not limited to Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDTs), Acadience (DIBELS Next), aimsweb, DIBELS, EasyCBM, Exact Path, FastBridge, i-Ready, IXL, MAP, and STAR. Other local assessments that do not include value-added reporting can be found in the student's individual testing history in the Student Reports.
Additional information about how these measures are calculated can be found in the Statistical Models and Business Rules.
Submitting Data
PDE submits CDT assessment data on behalf of LEAs/districts. PVAAS receives additional local assessment data from LEAs/districts that opted to submit them through the Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS) C6 Local Assessment Analytics collection. The specific format is described in the PIMS Manual Volume 1, Student Local Assessment Subtest Template for Reporting and Analytics, and Volume 2, Appendix AR.
Testing Windows
CDT and local assessments are often administered each year at the beginning of year (BOY), middle of year (MOY), and end of year (EOY). To receive growth reporting using local assessment data, tests must be administered during the defined testing windows below as these are used to classify assessment scores and determine how these assessments are used in the analysis.
PVAAS will apply these defined assessment windows below.
CDT Assessment Testing Windows:
- BOY = August 1, 2024, through November 14, 2024
- MOY = November 15, 2024, through March 31, 2025*
- EOY = February 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025*
*To provide LEAs/districts with more flexibility, the MOY and EOY testing windows have overlapping dates. For LEAs/districts that have assessment data for these overlapping windows, the earliest date will be classified as MOY and the latest date will be classified as EOY.
Local Assessment Testing Windows:
- BOY = August 1, 2024, through November 14, 2024
- MOY = November 15, 2024, through February 28/29, 2025
- EOY = March 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025
CDT Assessment Testing Windows:
- BOY = August 1, 2023, through November 14, 2023
- MOY = November 15, 2023, through March 31, 2024*
- EOY = February 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024*
*To provide LEAs/districts with more flexibility, the MOY and EOY testing windows have overlapping dates. For LEAs/districts that have assessment data for these overlapping windows, the earliest date will be classified as MOY and the latest date will be classified as EOY.
Local Assessment Testing Windows:
- BOY = August 1, 2023, through November 14, 2023
- MOY = November 15, 2023, through February 28/29, 2024
- EOY = March 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024
- BOY = August 1, 2022, through November 14, 2022
- MOY = November 15, 2022, through March 14, 2023
- EOY = March 15, 2023, through June 30, 2023
Local Assessment Resources
Please see the following information for the specific local assessment national norms/percentile rankings that are currently available publicly on the local assessment vendors' websites.
For information about Acadience Reading national norms, click here.
For information about Acadience Math national norms, click here.
For information about STAR norm-referenced scores, click here.
For information about STAR CBM scores amd benchmark tables, click here.