- 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
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This report is available only for EOG and EOC subjects.
While School Value-Added reports provide reliable measures of average student growth for the group of students served, the School Diagnostic reports offer important information about the growth of groups of students at different achievement levels. These reports can help you reflect on how your instructional programs are supporting the academic growth of all students.
Expected Performance Level Groups
In this report, students are placed into groups based on where their expected scores fall relative to the ranges set by the state for each performance level in the selected grade and subject or course. This method of placing students is used for all assessments, regardless of whether the data is analyzed with the gain model or the predictive model. A student must have three prior scores for a expected score to be generated. For students who have fewer than three prior scores, no expected score is generated, and the students are not included in this report.
To view the list of students in a group, click the value in the Growth row of the table or in the row. From the lists, you can click a student's name to view the student's testing history. If your account permissions do not include access to student data, you cannot view the lists of students or their individual testing history reports.
For information on how students are placed into and excluded from achievement groups, see Technical Details.
Growth
A simple growth measure is created for each expected performance level group. These values indicate the amount of academic growth students in the group made, on average, in the selected grade and subject or course. Use caution when interpreting these growth measures; the values in this report are not the result of the statistically rigorous analyses that generate growth measures for the value-added reports. For assessments analyzed with the gain model, the growth measure is the difference between the group's average score in this subject in the most recent year and the group's average score in the subject the previous year. For K-2 assessments in grades 1 and 2, the growth measure is the difference between the group's average score in the spring and their average score in the fall. For kindergarten, the growth measure is the difference between the group's average score in the spring and their average score in the winter. For assessments analyzed with the predictive model, the growth measure is the difference between the group's average score on the assessment and their average expected score.
In addition to the growth measures for the most recent year, the report includes the average growth of students at this school for up to three previous years, when available. Note that these growth measures represent three prior cohorts of students, not the previous growth of the most recent year's students.
If an expected performance level group has fewer than five students, no growth measure will be calculated, and no bar will appear for that group in the graph. For more information about the growth measures in the diagnostic reports, see Technical Details.
Expected Growth
Expected Growth represents the point at which the students' scores, on average, align with expectations.
Expected Growth signifies the minimum amount of academic growth that educators should expect a group of students to make in a subject and grade or course. In general, this signifies appropriate, expected academic growth. Simply put, the expectation is that regardless of their entering achievement level, students served by each LEA, school, or teacher should at least make enough progress to maintain their achievement level relative to their peers. This is a reasonable target for educators who serve all types of students. Expected Growth is represented by a horizontal green line in the graph.
Standard Error
All growth measures on the EVAAS reports are estimates. All estimates have some amount of measurement error, which is known as the standard error. This value defines a confidence band around the growth measure, which describes how strong the evidence is that the group of students exceeded, met, or fell short of expected growth.
For more information about standard errors, see Growth Measures and Standard Errors.
In this report, the standard error is represented by black whiskers on each bar in the graph. The solid lines of each whisker mark one standard error on either side of the growth measure, and the dotted lines mark two standard errors. For information about interpreting the charts, see Interpreting the Data.
Student Count
These rows list the number of assessments in each group.
For more information, see Technical Details.
Percentage of Students
These values represent the percentage of the school's students who were in each expected performance level group for the selected grade and subject or course.
Viewing Bar Chart or Pie Chart
The bar chart is displayed by default. To change the chart from vertical to horizontal, choose from the Chart Orientation drop-down menu below the chart. To view the pie chart, choose from the menu below the chart.
The size of each pie slice represents the percentage of students who were in each of the expected performance level groups.
Color Coding
The slices of the chart are color-coded to indicate whether the data suggests that students in each expected performance level group exceeded, met, or fell short of expected growth. You'll find a legend for the color coding at the bottom of the report.
For information about interpreting the charts, see Interpreting the Data.
Diagnostic Color | Growth Measure Compared to Expected Growth | Interpretation |
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Light Blue | At least one standard error above | Moderate but not significant evidence that the students made more growth than expected. |
Light Green | Between one standard error above and one standard error below | Evidence that the students made growth as expected. |
Light Red | More than one standard error below | Moderate but not significant evidence that the students made less growth than expected. |
White | N/A | Not enough students to generate a growth measure. |
Filtering by Student Group
To filter the list of students included in the report, click above the graph. In the Student Groups window, you can choose any combination of race, sex, and demographic groups.
If you choose more than one group within a category, the report includes students who are in either group. For example, if you choose Black and Hispanic, the report includes both Black students and Hispanic students.
If you choose multiple groups across categories, the report includes only students who are in the selected groups in all categories. For example, if you choose Male and Students with Disabilities, the report includes only males who are identified as students with disabilities.
When you are finished making selections, click Submit. The report includes only those groups of students you selected.
Even when viewing a filtered group of students, placement of students into the achievement groups is still based on students' relative achievement to students statewide in the selected grade and subject or course.