- 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
Student Search
Defining a Search
When defining a search, you can choose as many options as you'd like. However, it's not necessary to make a choice in each section of options. You can leave options blank or unselected.
Finding Students by Name or State Secure ID
To search by name:
- Click Student Search in the reports menu.
- Enter the student's name in the space provided. You can enter last name only or last name, first name.
- Click Submit.
You will receive a list of students whose names begin with the string of letters you entered. For example, if you enter "Smith," the list includes all students with the last name "Smithers" as well as "Smith." If you enter "Smith, John," the list includes only students named John Smith.
To search for students by State Secure ID, enter the student's State Secure ID in the space provided. Then click Submit. If you enter a partial State Secure ID, your results will include all students whose State Secure ID begins with the sequence of numbers you entered.
Searching by Grade
To limit your search to a single grade:
- Select the grade from the Grades drop-down menu on the Student Search page. Alternatively, select Any Grade to search for students in all grades. Then click submit.
- If enrollment data has been submitted to PVAAS through PIMS, the search will find students based on where they are currently enrolled. To search for students based on where they last tested, choose that option from the menu.
- Then click submit.
Searching by Race, Gender, or Demographics
Sometimes it is helpful to find students by shared characteristics rather than by name. Student Search allows you to customize your search to identify groups of students who meet your criteria.
To limit your search by race, gender, and/or demographic characteristic:
- Click the check box next to each category you would like to include. The demographic data used here is obtained annually from the statewide PSSA and Keystone administration files, which are used for reporting state assessment results.
- When you've finished selecting the search criteria, click the Submit button.
If you make multiple selections in the same column, the resulting list includes any student who matches any of the criteria. If you make selections from multiple columns, the resulting list includes only students who match all the criteria you selected.
For example, if you select Black and Hispanic, the search results include all students who are either Black or Hispanic. If you also select one of the demographic characteristics, your results include only Black and Hispanic students with that demographic characteristic.
No Students Found
If your search results in no students found, return to the search page and review your search parameters.