Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: National Conference on Student Assessment (NCSA) Atlanta, Georgia
Description: Student growth measures are widely used to measure schools' effects on student achievement based on assessments in grades 3-8. But few if any states measure the impact elementary schools have on growth before grade 3, or the impact schools have on non-test outcomes such as social-emotional learning, graduation, or postsecondary success. This panel will discuss methods to extend growth (and growth-like) measures to achievement in grades K-3, to graduation and postsecondary outcomes, and to social-emotional learning. These can provide states and districts with new information about school performance that is reflective of true school effectiveness while incorporating a broader range of outcomes, and should therefore be of interest to educators and policymakers who seek to ensure that their school performance measures are rich, diagnostic, valid, and actionable. The panel discussant is the accountability director from one of the state education agencies involved in the work.
