Data SGP is an application that provides educators with data and information regarding student growth in Washington State. This application serves to assist educators in understanding how students are progressing with their academic skills over time and use it to make informed decisions regarding instruction, support, and interventions for each of their students.
An increasing trend in education is using data to evaluate student performance over time, rather than only considering one score at any one time. This form of assessment, known as a growth model, measures student progress relative to other students. Growth models take into account that some subjects will perform better for certain students over time compared to others and that results may change year by year; it is therefore crucial that comparisons be made across years rather than just within an individual year.
This website allows teachers and administrators to monitor the growth of their students by comparing them against similar students’ performance. The results provide a clear picture of how a student is progressing academically over time – this type of data is known as normative; pairing normative with achievement data helps educators assess performance more easily.
Normative data offers educators more useful and reliable insight into student learning than traditional student assessment data. However, educators must remember that differences in SGPs between years should not be taken at face value as percentile rankings change every year – typically, differences of less than 10 points should not be considered significant.
Data SGP App Not only can this application track individual student growth, it can also analyze a school or district’s overall performance over multiple years and identify areas for improvement and celebrate successes. Furthermore, its advanced analytics provide the capability to examine multiple performance indicators like test participation rates and graduation rates.
Data SGP requires R, which is a free and open-source software environment. R can be found for Windows, OSX and Linux systems and there are numerous resources online that can assist in learning about its capabilities.
The Data SGP application features a component catalog that allows users to install new models, datasets or knowledge bases into the app. Clicking into an individual component reveals details including versioning and schema type information; users with manager level permissions or higher can only access this catalog. Evaluation datasets loaded into this component catalog are known as knowledge bases; either manually uploaded by users or automatically generated by SGP can be uploaded here; for more information regarding evaluation datasets please see Understanding Evaluation Datasets article.