PVAAS

=Pennsylvania's Value Added Assessment System (PVAAS) =

[|PVAAS] is [|Pennsylvania's Value Added Assessment System] tool which measures student growth/progress on the PSSA (as opposed to just achievement). It serves as a compliment to existing achievement measures by helping teachers to determine who much growth a student has made in a year, as well as predicting future achievement on successive PSSA tests.

[|PDE's PVAAS training PowerPoint]

Assignment 1: Explore the PVAAS website

 * Logon to [|https://pvaas.sas.com/evaas/login.jsp] with your provided login name and password.
 * On the Main Page select the **Reports** tab . A dropdown window will appear listing a variety of student, district, and school reports. This list will vary depending on the amount of access you have been given.
 * You can use the **Subject** and **Grades** tabs to view menus for different grade levels and subjects.
 * Select **District Value-Added Summary** from the Reports dropdown tab. Click on your **school name** to access your school value-added report. Note the color coding indicating the rating of the mean student gain displayed in each cell.
 * Next, select the **District Diagnostic Summary** from the Reports dropdown tab. Locate your school and note the gains of students in the quintiles (performance levels) above or below the expected gain.
 * Continue to examine the other reports in the **Reports** tab: Performance Diagnostic Summary, School Value-Added, School Diagnostic, Diagnostic Student List, School Performance Diagnostic, Student Report and Student Projection.

Assignment 2: Discuss the following questions in the discussion tab above.

 * Click on the **discussion** tab
 * In the **subject** box, please type your full name and the word "**PVAAS**"
 * In the **message** box, please answer:
 * What three things do you feel other people need to know about this site?
 * How will you use this site and the information it contains?
 * Click on **post** to submit your activity.

Additional Resources:

 * //Focus Questions://** As you begin to look at your school or district PVAAS data, these questions will help you to focus your thinking.
 * What is the gain rating for each grade level?
 * How does this year's gain rating compare to last year's?
 * How does this data compare to other data sources analyzed?
 * What grades and subgroups are doing well? What grades and subgroups are showing negative gain? Any patterns across subgroups?
 * Who are teh students in each category in the diagnostic reports?
 * Which performance groups (BB-B-P-A) are showing negative gains?
 * Is the trend for student performance consistent with the school and district trends?
 * What is the probability for students being proficient in the future projections? What are the implications for instructional planning?
 * What is evident as you track a cohort of students across two or more years/grades?
 * Are results similar or different for the same grades, subgroups, in different schools?
 * What groups or subgroups seem to be getting the most interventions? Which need more attention and interventions?

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 * //PVAAS Demo Site://** [|https://pvaas.sas.com]
 * //[|PVAAS PowerPoint.ppt]//** (download)