SXSW EDU 2020
What's the Context when Measuring Student Growth?
Description:
The focus on proficiency over growth fails to capture learning and progress. The pace of learning can inspire students' self-confidence and lead to compounding gains over time. But this progress becomes more difficult when growth metrics are hidden in a black box or too complex to understand. Through state testing scores, we will unpack these metrics and dive into emerging methodologies that measure growth, moving us closer to purposeful interventions designed to remove barriers to success.
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Takeaways
- Review key measures & assessments of student performance; and common types of "growth," including 'year-over-year,' 'contextualized,' and 'absolute.'
- Break down contextualized growth measures, to better apply the factors within the Student Growth Percentile and review an absolute cohort growth index
- Evaluate school quality, across student sub-groups, through a lens of (de-)contextualized growth/proficiency scores; compare/contrast interventions.
Speakers
- Michael Garner, Director of Data Science & Analytics, Green Dot Public Schools
- Noah Bookman, Executive Director, CORE Districts
Organizer
Sean Thibault, Communications Director, Green Dot Public Schools
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