Value Added 101

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Value Added 101

• LEAD Conference
• October 8 - 10, 2007
• Teresa McClure Information Resources Specialist

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Long Term Goals

• Meet AYP
• Raise Achievement or Mastery Percentages
• Meet Academic Needs of Individual Students
• Prepare Students for College Success

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Use Value-Added to measure your success

• Value-Added is a measure of the progress students
  make that is attributable to schooling.
• Districts
• Schools
• Teachers

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Essential Questions Value Added

• Does your curriculum fit your students?
• Do your instructional strategies work?
• Do all students have an opportunity to grow
  academically?
• Do you see patterns of underserved students?
• Do you see opportunities for improvement?

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Value-Added

• Answer these questions through the 3 reports
  available by grade and subject.
• To know if you are successful, look for the
  Green or Above.
• If you see another color or if you see Below,
  you have an Opportunity for Improvement.

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Where to Look

• Value-Added Report
• Diagnostic Report
• Performance Diagnostic Report

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Value-Added Report
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Diagnostic Report
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Bottom of Diagnostic Report
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Patterns of Growth

• Reverse Shed-Low achieving students have not
  maintained a years growth, while high performing
  students have made more than a years growth.
• Shed Pattern- High achieving students have not
  maintained a years growth, while low performing
  students have made more than a years growth.
• Tent Pattern- high and low performing students
  are not maintaining a years growth.
• Optimal Pattern- All students make positive gains
  with the low achieving students making the most
  gain.

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Narrow curricular focus can cause a reverse shed
pattern like this report.
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Shed Pattern
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Tent Pattern
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Optimal Pattern
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Performance Diagnostic Report
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Know the Curricular Standards

• Grade Below You
• Grade You Teach
• Grade Above You

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Example of Good Student Opportunities
Mean Gain
Quintiles
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What do we know about teachers?

• Teaching effectiveness improves with experience.
• In many classrooms, 2/3 of the students make
  appropriate progress.
• Teachers need
• Knowledge of content
• Intra-classroom assessment skills
• Differentiated instruction

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REPORTS

• Student Pattern List
• Feeder Pattern List
• School Search
• Custom Student Report