- 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 should always indicate growth if the percentage of students scoring Proficient or above increased since last year.
Comparing the percentage of students who score Proficient (or above) over time does not account for changes in achievement within performance level categories. Comparing the proficiency rate at a district or school over time does not account for changes in the cohort of students included in the rate. PVAAS value-added reporting follows the progress of individual students (as a part of a group of students) over time, regardless of their achievement level, to ensure that all students count.
PVAAS in Theory
Imagine the scenario below. The Mathematics achievement level of Student 1 is represented by the line with the blue diamonds, and that of Student 2 is represented by the line with the red squares. The orange, purple, and green lines show the percentile corresponding to the Basic, Proficient and Advanced performance levels. The achievement level of Student 1 has steadily increased over time while the achievement level of Student 2 has steadily decreased over time. From seventh to eighth grade, Student 1 moved from the Basic to Proficient performance category. From seventh to eighth grade, Student 2 maintained his position in the Proficient performance category although his achievement level has gone down.
STUDENT TESTING HISTORY IN PSSA MATHEMATICS FOR STUDENT 1 AND STUDENT 2
By considering the number of students who have scored Proficient and assuming all other students have maintained the same performance categories, the number of students has increased with the addition of Student 1. However, this does not consider that Student 2's achievement level is steadily decreasing over time. A subtler approach is required that considers the growth of all students regardless of their achievement level.
PVAAS in Practice
PVAAS does not measure students' growth based on the number or percentage of students who tested Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, or Advanced, as compared to previous years. PVAAS detects these subtle changes in progress even within performance levels. As a result, educators are recognized when they make growth with students at/above proficiency and below proficiency. This can be very encouraging to LEAs/districts, schools and teachers serving students with a history of lower achievement who might not otherwise be recognized for their students' growth.