The following videos and slide presentations are quick overviews of different parts of the EVAAS site.
They are helpful in 'frontloading' before more in-depth Value Added analyses or training.
Many of the videos sound better at 1.5x speed :-)
A Teacher’s Guide to Continuous Conversations for Continual Improvement is ready for use in Ohio’s schools and classrooms. This resource is intended to be a guide for grade-level meetings, coaching sessions with teachers, professional development, and data meetings, for example. There’s no limit to the number of times you can access this guide.
You can now access new resources from the Ohio EVAAS e-Magazine Resource both from the Ohio EVAAS login page under the Understanding EVAAS section or at the following link: https://evaasresources.sas.com/oh-evaas/full-view.html
For the Ohio State Tests (OSTs) in Math and English Language Arts, the gain model follows students and measures growth from one grade to the next. This model assumes typical grade patterns for students. Students with non-traditional patterns, such as those who have been retained in a grade or skipped a grade, can be included in the model but are treated as separate students in different cohorts when these non-traditional patterns occur. This process occurs separately by subject since some students can be accelerated in one subject and not the other. The purpose of this document is to clarify how this policy works in practice. It includes examples from both the gain model, which is used in consecutive grades, as well as the predictive model, which is used in non-consecutive grades.