- Measuring Growth
- Public Reports
- Restricted Reports
- Accountability Reports
- School Reports
- District Reports
- Teacher Reports
- Student Reports
- Comparison Reports
- Roster Verification (RV)
- Getting Started
- Specifying Instructional Responsibility
- 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 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
- General Help
Understanding Expected Growth
Expected Growth is denoted by the dotted line in the center of the growth indicator bar. Conceptually, growth is simply the difference between students' entering achievement and exiting achievement. If students maintain their entering achievement over time, then the growth measure is zero (or close to zero). Zero represents expected growth. Positive growth measures are evidence that students made more than expected growth, and negative growth measures are evidence that students made less than expected growth.
Expected Growth signifies the minimum amount of academic growth that educators should expect a group of students to make as they move from one grade to the next in a specified subject area. In general, this signifies appropriate, expected academic growth. Simply put, the expectation is that regardless of their entering achievement, students served by each LEA, school, or teacher should at least make enough growth to maintain their achievement relative to other students. This is a reasonable target for educators who serve all types of students.
In the gain model, expected growth means that students maintained the same position with respect to the in the state student achievement that year.
- In the predictive model, expected growth means that students made the same amount of growth as students with the average district or school in the state for that same year, subject, and grade.
Both models define expected growth based on the empirical student testing data; in other words, they do not assume a particular amount of growth or assign expected growth in advance of the assessment being taken by students. Both models use an intra-year approach to measuring growth and defining expected growth. This means that expected growth is always relative to how students' achievement has changed in the most recent year of testing rather than a fixed year in the past.
- Assessments analyzed with the Gain model are reported in NCEs.
- Assessments analyzed with the Predictive model are reported in scale scores.