- Introduction: Georgia Model of Student Growth
- Why student growth?
- Policy background.
- Goals for the Georgia Model of Student Growth.
- What is (and isn't) Student Growth?
- Student growth vis-à-vis student learning.
- Subtraction isn't a growth model.
- What is a Student Growth Percentile?
- What is a percentile?
- Properties of SGPs?
- Even high achieving students can demonstration growth.
- Summarizing student growth for groups.
- Mean: What is a mean?
- Median: What is a median?
- Percent above a cut.
- Student growth targets: Am I on track to be proficient?
- What does "on track" mean?
- Growth and attainment: Opposite sides of the same coin.
- A year's worth of growth.
- The two sides of growth: Looking backward and looking forward.
- Baseline-referenced versus cohort-referenced SGPs.
- Using SGPs: Flagging potential students in need of remediation.
- Using SGPs: Understanding student growth targets for annual planning.
- Using SGPs: Growth-gaps between groups.
- Using SGPs: Investigating growth with your own data.