Colorado Growth Model District & School Reports
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This page contains links to school-by-school growth charts for all districts in Colorado based on Colorado’s Growth Model. The growth charts include only Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) growth results from 2006 to 2007. As soon as the data are available, this page will be updated with growth results from 2007 to 2008.
What The Model Measures
Colorado's Growth Model measures student progress from one year to the next in the context of a student's “academic peers.” The Growth Model compares each student's performance to students in the same grade throughout Colorado who had similar CSAP scores in past years and calculates a growth percentile. A student growing as well or better than 60 percent of his or her academic peers would be at the 60th percentile.
Student growth percentiles can be used to determine “How much growth is enough?” The percentiles show the amount of growth necessary for each student to reach proficiency (“catch up”) or maintain proficiency (“keep up”) within three years or by 10th grade.
In the tables, the 2008 data for Percent on Track to Catch Up gives the district percentages of students scoring Unsatisfactory or Partially Proficient in 2007 who are making enough growth during the 2007-2008 academic year to reach proficiency within three years or 10th grade. Similarly, the 2008 data for Percent on Track to Keep Up gives the district percentages of students scoring Proficient or Advanced in 2007 who are making enough growth during the 2007-2008 academic year to remain at or above proficient over the next three years or 10th grade.
To summarize student growth rates for a school, individual student growth percentiles are also aggregated by finding the median score (the middle score if you rank the scores from highest to lowest). The 2007 growth charts provide the median student growth percentiles for each school by subject.