Link to Resource:听Comparison of 2019 Cohort and Baseline Student Growth Percentiles
础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Benjamin Shear
Suggested Citation:听Shear, B.R. (2020). Comparison of 2019 Cohort and Baseline Student Growth Percentiles. 麻豆影院, CO: The Center for Assessment, Design, Research and Evaluation (CADRE). https:// www.colorado.edu/cadre/node/373/attachment听
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Each year, as required by state and federal statute, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) produces accountability ratings for each school. At the Elementary and Middle school levels, these accountability ratings are based on two aspects of student performance on the state Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) tests - status and growth. Status is measured by the average scale scores students receive. Growth is measured by the quantile-regression based student growth percentile (SGP) model (Betebenner, 2009). Both metrics are also disaggregated by student subgroups. Although state statute requires measuring growth using the SGP model, there are multiple ways the model can be estimated. This report focuses on one particular technical choice CDE must make when deciding which version of the SGP model to use in measuring student growth, namely whether these measures should be based on so-called cohort or baseline-referenced SGPs. The purpose of this report is to:听
The analyses in this report were planned and carried out using data collected prior to the disruptions caused by COVID-19. This report is intended to provide background context and results relevant to the use of SGP data under standard test administration and reporting conditions and does not address concerns specific to the educational disruptions and challenges that have occurred during the pandemic.听