PVAAS Update to School Districts December 2010 Questions to: PVAAS Statewide Core Team pdepvaas@iu13.org

Trouble with scatterplot files? Contact pdepvaas@iu13.org As of November 4, 2010 scatterplots became available for every IU via a secure document library on IU 13’s SharePoint site. Trouble with scatterplot files? Contact pdepvaas@iu13.org SY2009-2010 Scatterplots

Single-Year High Growth & Achievement Quintiles As of November 15, 2010 Single-Year Quintile files became available for every IU via a secure document library on IU 13’s SharePoint site. Trouble with quintile files? Contact pdepvaas@iu13.org Single-Year High Growth & Achievement Quintiles

Single Year of Quintile 5 Growth and/or Quintile 5 Achievement   Gain/Growth Achievement Include: 5 in both growth & achievement School  A 5 5 in growth but not achievement School   B 1, 2, 3 or 4 5 in achievement but not growth School  C NOT included: Does not have 5 in growth nor in achievement School  D

Multiple Years (2 or 3 yrs) of Quintile 5 for Growth Coming by the end of 2010!!! Consecutive Year High Growth Quintile files will be posted for every IU via a secure document library on IU 13’s SharePoint site. Multiple Years (2 or 3 yrs) of Quintile 5 for Growth

Consecutive years of Quintile 5 Growth Results   SY09-10 SY08-09 SY07-08 Include/ last 2 consecutive years School  A 5 last 3 consecutive years School   B NOT included, 2/3 non-consecutive years School  C School  D

Currently Enrolled – FREE, OPTIONAL Service for Districts New in SY2010-11 school districts were provided with an option to submit an updated currently enrolled student data file to SAS, Inc. containing students currently enrolled in their district and schools in fall 2010. What does submission of these data do? Provides educators with the ability to search for and use Student Projection data for students currently in their schools as opposed to where those students were attributed for the Spring 2010 PSSA.

Currently Enrolled – Important Note Submission of currently enrolled data will not affect your school’s existing growth reporting. Submission of these data will simply allow you to view student projection information for students currently sitting in your district’s classrooms!

Currently Enrolled Submission Windows SAS, Inc. has provided districts across the Commonwealth with three opportunities to submit these date: October 22, 2010 November 22, 2010 January 7, 2011 – Still plenty of time to prepare data to submit by 4:00 PM on this day! A copy of the Service Agreement and Services Specification Form can be found on the PVAAS login page at https://sas.pvaas.com

Currently Enrolled via Projection Summaries If your school district already submitted this data to SAS, Inc. (as described on previous slide): Once your district’s point of contact has been contacted by SAS, Inc. you can access the new currently enrolled projection summary reports by clicking on “Projection Summary – Enrolled Grades” from the orange reporting tab

Currently Enrolled via Student Search New feature on Student Search to include Currently Enrolled:

Projection Summaries: Projections to Advanced NEW!!!!! Districts and schools can now look at summary report of student projections to ADVANCED levels of performance on the PSSA. This is a very meaningful indicator regarding the future performance of students on the PSSA. This is another important indicators to add to decision-making at the school, grade and student levels.

Projection Summaries to Advanced: Accessing

Graduation Rate now in PVAAS! Graduation rates are now included in the School Search feature within PVAAS WHY? Growth results on grade 11 reports are on those students that did not drop out by the end of grade 11 testing Schools should also consider how many students DID drop out along the way from the end of grade 8 to the end of grade 11 when considering this report

Graduation Rate now in PVAAS! Graduation rates are now included in the School Search feature within PVAAS

Getting Results Worksheet PDFs Now available in the PVAAS “Reports” menu!