What is Growth?

1. Using the Iowa AssessmentsInterpretation WorkshopsSession 2Using the Iowa Assessments to Monitor Student Growth

2. What is Growth? • Growth describes change in student achievement over time • Focus of growth is on individual students or on matched groups of students

3. What is Growth?

4. NCLB Testing – Not Growth Fall ’09 Spring ’10 Fall ’10 Spring ’11 Fall ’11 Spring ‘12 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5

5. Fall Testing for Growth Fall ’09 Spring ’10 Fall ’10 Spring ’11 Fall ’11 Spring ‘12 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5

6. Why is Growth Important? • Individuals learn at different rates • Learning is continuous • Focus on growth avoids arbitrary labels (like proficiency and advanced) • Puts focus on setting long-term goals • Understanding progress towards college- and career-readiness

7. Assumptions • Learning is a continuum, not a set of discrete steps and achievement levels • Measurable differences along the learning continuum • Test development process can focus on growth along the continuum • Growth scale for reporting results

8. Growth Scale • Standard scores that describe a student’s location on an achievement continuum • Tracks year-to-year growth regardless of where the student started on the continuum • A vertical scale that describes student growth over time, as multiple measures on individual students using different, age- and grade-appropriate test forms are available • Typical annual growth is defined and expectations for growth can be established and monitored

10. Vertical Scales

11. How can information on growth be used to help students and teachers?

12. Using Growth Information

13. Step 1 -- Absolute Growth Standard Score Year 2 Standard Score Year 1 Absolute Growth

15. Step 2 -- Expected Growth

21. Step 3 -- Setting Growth Goals Examples • Goal A – All students become proficient in two years • Goal B – All students exceed expected growth for a given year • Goal C – All non-proficient students grow beyond expectations for a given year. • Goal D – All students in district “RTI” program exceed expected growth 

22. Step 3 – Example: Setting Growth Goals

23. Step 4 -- Monitoring Student Growth

24. Step 4 – Monitoring Student Growth

26. Resources for Monitoring Growth • Longitudinal Reports on Iowa Assessments • eITP for individual students and groups • CD with Iowa Assessment data to monitor growth across years

28. eITP – for groups • eITP is a free service produced by Iowa Testing Programs that provides district-level Iowa Assessment growth data to district administrators in an online, interactive format. eITP represents a continuing effort on the part of Iowa Testing Programs to make test data informative and useful for the schools in Iowa. • The growth profiles represent the core functionality of eITP. They currently display up to six years of growth data for the grade cohorts in your district. It shows relative strengths and weaknesses across the Iowa subtests and lets you highlight subtests where particularly high and low growth has occurred. A subgraph allows you to plot trends by subtests. Data tables and filters are available to support your own data analyses with programs like Microsoft Excel. See the Tutorials for more information. • eITP provides both Standard Score (SS) and Grade Equivalent (GE) data.

29. eITP – for groups • https://itp.education.uiowa.edu/Tools/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2feITP

31. eITP – for the individual student • https://itp.education.uiowa.edu/eitp/auth/individual/WorkshopsTestingPurposeOnly.aspx

32. Accessing eITP • eITP at the student level will be announced to Superintendents in early 2012 • eITP is a separate ‘system’ within Online Tools (similar to Bar Coding). • Current users of Online Tools will need to be granted access to eITP by the holder of the District Assistant Master Account. • District Assistant Master Account may also create new user ID’s solely to access eITP.