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Examples of Student Growth
Descriptions of Student Growth
- Student academic progress achieved in response to the pedagogical practices of teachers, as measured at the individual teacher level by one or more measures of student growth aligned to the standards of the course.
- Measures how much progress a student makes academically during a specific amount of time.
- Considers a student’s initial skill level and how much the student grew over time.
- Provides data for students who are behind grade level, on grade level, and beyond grade level, adapting growth expectations to each student’s context.
- Drives improvements to instructional practices.
- Focuses on the progress a student makes between the beginning of the year and the end of the year, not necessarily on whether a student meets a predetermined benchmark.
Examples of Student growth
- Renaissance Star Reading +0.5 growth from September to December.
- De Andre moved from meeting grade level expectations on the 7th grade Reading STAAR to exceeding grade level expectations on the 8th grade Reading STAAR.
- Performance on a Beginner’s Guitar rubric at the beginning of the year compared to the end of the year.
- Vida’s ACT score grew 3 points from the beginning of her junior year to the end of her junior year.
- Michaela received a score of 205 on her Reading MAP test at the beginning of 4th grade and a score of 220 on her reading test at the beginning of 5th grade.
- Denise began the year able to complete 5/15 checkpoints on the Industry Certification list and by May had mastered 10/15. Even though Denise did not earn industry certification, she demonstrated significant growth.
- Theresa’s AP Language and Composition teacher set an individual growth goal of a 3 on the AP exam, based on Theresa’s English II STAAR scale score, as well as other data points, such as her first timed in-class essay using a released AP exam writing prompt.
