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Katherine E. Castellano; Daniel F. McCaffrey; Joseph A. Martineau – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2025
Growth-to-standard models evaluate student growth against the growth needed to reach a future standard or target of interest, such as proficiency. A common growth-to-standard model involves comparing the popular Student Growth Percentile (SGP) to Adequate Growth Percentiles (AGPs). AGPs follow from an involved process based on fitting a series of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Growth Models, Student Educational Objectives, Educational Indicators
How Should States Choose a Growth Model? Aligning Your Growth Model with Policy and Technical Values
Scott Marion; Chris Domaleski; Will Lorié – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
Federal law requires that state accountability systems include "another academic indicator" for elementary and middle schools in addition to academic achievement. Nearly all states use a measure of student longitudinal growth as their other academic indicator. But how should states decide which growth model to use? The Center for…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Indicators, Federal State Relationship
Quintana, Rafael; Correnti, Richard – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Most of the literature on the development of educational inequality has operated under the achievement gaps paradigm, often assuming that the underlying normative and methodological foundations related to equality and justice in education are a settled matter. In this article, we argue that important normative dimensions are overlooked with…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Mobility, Achievement Gap, Educational Policy
Petrilli, Michael J.; Griffith, David; Wright, Brandon L. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
A companion piece to "High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA," this report appraises states' current (or planned) accountability systems as they affect high-achieving students in high school. They were examined and rated based on whether they incorporate under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) the…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, State Regulation, State Standards
Aida, Misako; Watanabe, Satoshi P. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Universities throughout the world are trending toward more performance based methods to capture their strengths, weaknesses and productivity. Hiroshima University has developed an integrated objective measure for quantifying multifaceted faculty activities, namely the "Achievement-Motivated Key Performance Indicator" (A-KPI), in order to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Productivity, College Faculty, Job Performance
Gardella, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Signed into Law on January 8, 2002, the 1,180 page No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) shifted the course of public education in America. For the first time accountability was firmly placed at the center of school operations by requiring a systematic approach to achieving reform and improving all areas of school life (Wanker & Christie, 2005). As…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Growth Models, Educational Indicators
Saven, Jessica L.; Farley, Dan; Tindal, Gerald – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2013
Longitudinally modeling the growth of students with significant cognitive disabilities (SWSCDs) on alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) presents many challenges for states. The number of students in Grades 3-8 who remain in a cohort group varies over time, depending on the methods used to construct the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Intellectual Disability, Growth Models
College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2014
This discussion guide is part of a larger practice guide designed to help state education agencies (SEAs) define measurement goals, select college and career readiness measures and indicators designed to support those goals, and use the data gathered with those measures and indicators to make informed decisions about college and career readiness…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Standard Setting, Benchmarking, Guides