Learning Growth ModelAdrienne Shendler, Ashlund Haskell, and Shelby Hines

QUESTION PRESS What is it?

An online question and answer form that can be used in presentations or even in the classroom. Serves as a quick way to survey responders.

How does it work? Type www.questionpress.com/srhines into your

browser- this will direct you to the questions we created for our presentation

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OYyRjjQ

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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 4th to 5th 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: 66th to the 99th percentile

Typical Growth: 35th to the 65th percentile

Low Growth: 1st to the 34th 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.

Post- Quiz Please return to

www.questionpress.com/srhines to answer a few questions about the Learning Growth Model

Question Press How can you use Question Press in the

classroom?

What are other ways that Question Press can be used?

Questions??

A few more questions…

Please return to www.questionpress.com/srhines to answer a few questions we have for you about our presentation.

Thanks!

Resources https://learningconnection.doe.in.gov/Growt

hModel/ModelFAQs.aspx

http://www.alex.k12.in.us/centraloffice/Growth_WebEx.pdf