What exactly is Value Added?
Value-added assessment is a statistical method used to measure the impact that a school has on its students’ academic progress from year to year. Value-added can be used to analyze an individual student’s growth or the growth of an entire group of students.
EVAAS: Ohio Value Added Reporting
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Select Ohio Public Reporting Public Use to see the SAS EVAAS reports that provide a wealth of information for districts and schools. This is a public site that does not require a log in or password.
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Why do we need another measurement tool?
Achievement
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Progress
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Measures how an individual student or group of students performed on a standardized test at one point in time.
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Measures how much gain or growth an individual student or groups of students make over time.
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Compares individual student test scores or groups of students’ scores to a state standard.
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Compares an individual student’s performance or groups of students’ performance to their own prior performance.
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Allows teachers to measure performance at a single point in time, often at the end of the school year.
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Allows teachers to measure growth from the end of one school year to the end of the next year, regardless of whether a student performs below, at or above grade level.
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Achievement scores can be impacted by outside factors such as family background, socioeconomic status, race, culture, language, etc.
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Progress is rarely impacted by extraneous factors such as family background, socioeconomic status, race, culture, language, etc.
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Can reveal the strengths and weaknesses of an educational program.
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Provides information about the overall effectiveness of an educational program.
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Can assess student achievement as it stands at one point in time.
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Can assess the effect that teaching and school-related factors have on student learning.
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