390 Student Growth Percentiles: What, Why, and How?

Friday, April 4, 2014: 7:30 AM-8:30 AM
Convention Center: 125–126
Research: Motor Behavior & Measurement
Intended Audience: K-12, Post Secondary Instructor/Faculty
Presider: Weimo Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL
This tutorial is to introduce Student Growth Percentiles (SGP), which is a relative measure of how much a student has improved/changed from one year to the next as compared to his/her academic peers and is being used in more than 20 states to assess student learning and teacher effectiveness. After an overall introduction, some technical details of SGP will be described and illustrated. Finally, the method will be illustrated with a real-life PE example.
Student Growth Percentiles: Concepts and Potentials for Physical Education
Weimo Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL
Calculating Student Growth Percentiles: Method and Software
Elena A. Boiarskaia and Weimo Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL
Interpretation, Reporting, and Visualization of Student Growth Percentiles
Yan Yang, Weimo Zhu and Elena A. Boiarskaia, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL
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