Learning Growth Model Adrienne Shendler, Ashlund Haskell, and Shelby Hines

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Why is the Learning Growth Model important? Many companies and businesses have growth models in order to monitor growth within their company or business. Schools have growth models for a similar reason, to monitor the growth and progress of their students.

How does the Learning Growth Model work? Scenario from the Indiana Department of Education website Wes is in the fifth grade. Last year his math ISTEP score was 379 –he did not pass. This year his math score was 411 –he did not pass. That is an increase of 32 points. Is that good, bad or average? How do we decide? We could look at the average gain from 4 th to 5 th for all students in his school (429 to 455 = gain of 26) so 32 looks really good.

Student Growth Percentiles We must have at least two test scores for a student to calculate growth (Yr.1 & Yr.2) Wes’s math score was 379 in 07 & 411 in 08 For each subject we find all of the students who earned exactly the same scale score (Yr.1) as Wes (his “academic peers”) – 222 students had a math score of 379 Then determine the distribution of those student scores in Yr.2 – The average Yr 2 score for these 222 students was 404 (50%tile) Going from 379 to 404 (25 points increase) is “1 year’s growth” for these students Wes went from 379 to 411 which places him at the 54%ile For each student and content area we do the same calculations – This means each scale score in year 1 has its own year 2 score that defines the 50%ile (a year’s growth)

Graph of Student Growth Percentiles

How to determine a school’s “quadrant”

How much growth is good growth for students? High Growth: 66 th to the 99 th percentile Typical Growth: 35 th to the 65 th percentile Low Growth: 1 st to the 34 th percentile

What does this mean for students, teachers, and schools? Schools will be able to track students growth from year to year in order to decide whether or not students are making sufficient improvement. Parents will be able to easily monitor their child’s progress from year to year. By using their quadrant rating, schools will know if they are making sufficient growth and achievement.

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