- 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
- Building 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
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Understanding the Data
Overview of "Growth" and "Achievement"
This report enables you to assess trends in growth and achievement in the schools that you have access to.
Growth is the difference between students' entering and exiting achievement. You have two options for how to display growth data, and you can view both at once, if you prefer.
- The growth color indicator is the color-coded bar that plots the growth index in the context of the growth standard.
- The columns of Growth data include key metrics related to students' growth, such as the growth measure, its standard error, and the growth index.
Achievement is student performance at a single point in time. Achievement metrics, which are described by columns of achievement data, are helpful when interpreting growth metrics and understanding student learning in context.
Additional information about how these measures are calculated can be found in the Statistical Models and Business Rules. For more information about growth and achievement, see Concept of Growth.
Growth Color IndicatorEach growth index is plotted on a color-coded growth color indicator bar to indicate the amount of statistical evidence we have that the School meets, exceeds, or falls short of the growth standard. The Growth StandardThe growth standard indicates the amount of growth the group of students must make to maintain their entering achievement. For more information, see Understanding Growth. | Figure: Sample report. The colors might be different in your reports. |
Definitions of Column Headings
Growth Columns
Use growth data to:
- Make fair comparisons across subjects, grades, Keystone content areas, and years
- Find areas of strength and areas that need improvement
The table below gives general information about the growth columns and links to more in-depth information.
Column Name | Glossary Definition | Where to Find More Information |
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Growth Index | An indicator of the amount of evidence that the group of students met, exceeded, or fell short of the growth standard. | Understanding the Growth Index |
Effect Size | An indicator of magnitude and practical significance that the group of students met, exceeded, or fell short of the growth standard. | Understanding Effect Size |
Growth Measure | A conservative estimate of the growth that students made, on average, in a grade and subject or course. | Growth Measures And Standard Errors |
Standard Error | A measurement that establishes a level of certainty around the growth measure and describes the amount of evidence that the group of students met, exceeded, or fell short of the growth standard. | Growth Measures And Standard Errors |
Student Count | The number of students included in the analysis. | Understanding the Student Count |
Achievement Columns
Use achievement data to:
- Observe shifts in entering achievement for different groups of students over the years
- Identify patterns of effectiveness with students at differing levels of entering achievement
- Support vertical conversations with feeder schools or teachers of prerequisite courses
The table below gives general information about the achievement columns and links to more in-depth information.
Column Name | Glossary Definition | Where to Find More Information |
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Entering Achievement and Exiting Achievement | Depending on the assessment, achievement is reported in Normal Curve Equivalents (NCEs) or scale scores.
| Understanding Entering Achievement and Exiting Achievement |
Student Count | The number of students included in the analysis. | Understanding the Student Count |
How the Colors Are Assigned
The model generates growth measures and standard errors. You can see rounded versions of these numbers by selecting the Growth Measure and Standard Error columns under Data to Display. We calculate each growth index by dividing the unrounded growth measure by the unrounded standard error. We assign colors to growth indexes based on how far the indexes are from the growth standard.
Growth Color Indicator | Growth Index Compared to the Growth Standard | Interpretation |
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Well Above | At least 2 standard errors above | Significant evidence that the school exceeded the growth standard. |
Above | Between 1 and 2 standard errors above | Moderate evidence that the school exceeded the growth standard. |
Meets | Between 1 standard error above and 1 standard error below | Evidence that the school met the growth standard. |
Below | Between 1 and 2 standard errors below | Moderate evidence that the school did not meet the growth standard. |
Well Below | More than 2 standard errors below | Significant evidence that the school did not meet the growth standard. |