Growth

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• Growth

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Growth
Objectives

• Understand the Growth Model
• Understand how the model can be used to improve
  student achievement and equity.

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Growth
Definition

• Oregons Growth Model calculates the progress a
  student has made toward meeting benchmark.
  Students who are meeting their growth targets
  will be counted as Meets for accountability
  purposes on the report card.

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Growth
Purpose

• Be included as part of the accountability process
  to determine which schools are being effective
• Provide additional information to support
  teaching and learning by including growth targets
  in individual student reports

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Growth
Design

• Addresses needs identified by stakeholders
• Focused on existing achievement standards
• Focused on High School diploma as a goal
• Easily replicated in a spreadsheet
• Targets available before students begin their
  next test and results available after they end
  their test
• Designed to be consistent with requirements of
  the U.S. Department of Education

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Growth
How to Use

• The growth target is not the ultimate goal for
  the student. The goal for the students is to meet
  the grade level achievement standard.
• The growth model sets intermediate goals for
  students, allowing them to move up to standard
  over a period of several years.
• Look at each students testing history (as
  displayed on the Growth Individual Student
  Report) to gain a more comprehensive view of each
  students achievement.

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Growth
The Formula

• Growth targets are chosen with a three years to
  proficiency model. Each year students are asked
  to close their personal achievement gap.
• The Gap (Indicated by the number of RIT points
  they are below benchmark) must decrease according
  to the percentages in the table at right.
• Students meeting these expectations are
  determined to have met growth.
• For report card rating purposes, students who
  met growth will count equally with students who
  met benchmark.

Grade Span Required Decrease in Gap Required Decrease in Gap
Grade Span Reading Math
3 to 4 39 44
4 to 5 44 43
5 to 6 31 25
6 to 7 36 33
7 to 8 44 40
More information can be found on the ODE Growth
model webpage http//www.ode.state.or.us/search/
page/?id2495. This page contains A growth
model target calculator Tables of growth
targets Details on the growth target
calculation Data from other growth models
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Growth
The Formula (cont)
Example for a student
Cut scores
6th grade222
4th grade211
If a student scores a 190 in 3rd grade, meeting
standard in 4th grade would Require 21 points.
The growth model describes a student as on
track if he/she makes 32 x 38.8912.44 points of
growth. We round up to 13 which makes a Target
of 19013203
3rd grade204
3rd to 4th21 pts
3rd to 6th32 pts
Student score 190
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Growth
Acorns for Storage

• How can the growth model fit into your district
  and school improvement plans?
• How can we use the growth model to improve
  instruction and student learning?
• How can we ensure that the growth model does not
  reduce rigorous expectations we have for our
  students?

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