The Application Catalog serves as a central hub for installing new models, datasets and knowledge bases into an SGP account. By making these resources accessible via this catalog, all users of that account can take advantage of them. In addition to having an applications home page dedicated to this catalog search bar exists within the user interface so they can navigate and locate relevant models datasets or knowledge bases more quickly and efficiently.
Student Growth Percentile (SGP) measures student progress relative to his or her academic peers. Calculation for SGP involves comparing state assessment scores from this year with last year, using their percentile rank from prior year as a baseline score in order to predict current year scores; quantile regression provides additional detail regarding this model’s interpretation – for more details please see our Student Growth School and District Resources webpage.
Students’ Student Growth Points can be understood at face value or relative to their respective percentage of students who have shown similar growth. It is important to keep in mind that each year the SGP ranking changes; only variations between years can be assessed directly; one student showing higher growth than another within one year indicates greater academic skills development.
Teachers reporting an SGP must ensure that both of their student’s pretest and posttest scores are comparable; additionally, teachers must enroll in at least 60% of the same classes prior to state assessment with at least 20 students who possess valid SGP scores for that year.
At Star Growth Reports, window specific SGPs are generated when selecting either the prior or current school year in the Timeframe drop-down list when customizing reports. These projections use Betebenner’s catch-up and keep-up growth projections combined with criterion-referenced tests as inputs.
SGPs can be an invaluable way to measure student performance. But interpretation requires taking into account their context of use – for instance, due to differences between years in when prior and current scores occurred, as well as changes in trends of statewide growth which vary over time; during times of economic strain or public health crises this trend may slow, potentially shifting the SGP of an individual student up or down depending on how it’s interpreted by families and educators alike.