Student Growth Data for Productivity Indicator Systems GAT SGP NCLB
- Author(s):
- Haertel, Edward
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Source:
- Paper presented at the Exploratory Seminar: Measurement Challenges Within the Race to the Top Agenda, Dec 2009
- Document Type:
- Paper
- Page Count:
- 21
- Subject/Key Words:
- K-12 Education, Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, Growth Models, Student Growth Percentiles (SGP), Accountability, Value-Added, True Scores, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), ETS K-12 Center
Abstract
Following this introduction, the first major section takes up the problem of measuring growth for individual students and recasts growth measures in different terms more amenable to analysis; the second section considers the aggregation of individual measures to characterize the status of groups (e.g., the students in a classroom, a school, or some demographic subgroup within a school); and the third considers the use of such group performance measures as part of educational indicator systems for productivity analysis. The paper ends with a brief summary and conclusion.