Nevada SGP Training Seminar

Nevada Department of Education · May 9, 2011

Nevada SGP Training Seminar — Nevada Department of Education, May 9, 2011.
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May 9, 2011

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  1. SGP Package References Nevada SGP Training Seminar Damian W. Betebenner National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Dover, NH Reno, Nevada May 9th, 2011 Damian W. Betebenner SGP Training Seminar
  2. SGP Package Functions References Discussion Topics SGP version 0.0-8.0 posted to CRAN on May 8th, 2011 [Betebenner, 2011]. Embedded stateData that contains Cutscores, CSEMs, Knots and Boundaries, Performance Level labels and other sources of data for Nevada Ability to calculate confidence intervals at the individual and group level based upon measurement error indicated by CSEMs Ability to calculate student growth percentiles and two types of percentile growth trajectories more simply and to calculate adequate growth based upon assumptions of catching up/keep up with proficient status. Soon: Ability to produce summary bubble charts and individual student reports. Damian W. Betebenner SGP Training Seminar
  3. SGP Package Functions References Discussion Topics Still has the same standard functions: studentGrowthPercentiles and studentGrowthProjections. With 5 higher level functions: prepareSGP, analyzeSGP, combineSGP, summarizeSGP, prepareSGP, and (soon) reportSGP. With 1 higher level function abcSGP. Goal is to work with states to make use of package as easy as possible — providing free/high quality analytics to state DOEs. Damian W. Betebenner SGP Training Seminar
  4. SGP Package Functions References Discussion Topics Data preparation requirements (wide versus long). sgpData and sgpData_LONG Special requirements for long data format: Factors, factors, and more factors. Output (and input): The SGP list object. Summary level output: There can be a TON of it. Individual Student Reports (vertical versus non-vertical scale) Damian W. Betebenner SGP Training Seminar
  5. SGP Package References References Betebenner, D. W. (2011). SGP: Student Growth Percentile and Percentile Growth Projection/Trajectory Functions. R package version 0.0-8.0. Damian W. Betebenner SGP Training Seminar