- 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
Misconception: PVAAS cannot accomodate the realities of today's classroom.
The instruction that students receive from educators can be much more complex than one teacher for a given subject and grade. In today's classroom, there might be team teaching, pull out or push in programs, lab sessions, English Language Development instruction, or countless other ways that more than one instructor is responsible for a student's learning in a particular subject and grade. It is important to capture such contributions in teacher value-added reporting, and PVAAS does just that.
PVAAS in Theory
The statistical modeling underlying PVAAS uses a robust approach that can take into account team teaching or other scenarios where more than one instructor is responsible for a student's learning in a particular subject and grade. If just one teacher is responsible for a student's learning, that student is weighted fully in that teacher's Value-Added report. If more than one teacher is responsible for a student, then the student is weighted in each Teacher Value-Added report according to the percentage of instructional responsibility that the teacher has. A teacher's Value-Added report reflects all the students linked to them, and it considers the appropriate weighting.
PVAAS in Practice
The weighting itself is captured by the roster verification process available through the PVAAS web application. This application allows teachers, and their admins, to review and modify the list of students linked to them. This step provides an important measure of verification and validation for accurate student-teacher linkages. A sample screenshot using demonstration data is in the figure below.
Any protocols and policies on which educators to include in roster verification and how to assign the percentage of instructional responsibility to educators were determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and based on results from the pilot study.
SAMPLE ROSTER VERIFICATION FOR A TEACHER
