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A statewide assessment system like Wisconsin’s SGP is only as good as the data that goes into it. This requires large, reliable samples from students across the state who have taken a series of assessments over time. In addition, the statewide data must be comparable across schools and grade levels. SGP is designed to address these issues by grouping students with similar test score histories, then ranking them based on their relative progress from one year to the next. This information is then used to create a “growth percentile” for each student. A student’s growth percentile compares their performance to that of the top 99th percentile of students with similar history and performance.
While the student growth percentile (SGP) is a very useful tool, it does not tell the full story of an individual’s student performance. It is important to look at the context in which a student’s SGP was calculated as well as their current achievement levels and other factors that could have influenced their results.
SGP is currently only available for students in grades 4 through 11, and is not yet available for high school students. Starting in Fall 2019, the SGP dashboard has been modified to normalize all scale scores from all years and content areas to a common scale of 0-100 for graphing purposes. This change also means that current SGP results no longer include a student’s statewide test scores from the 2014-15 Badger Exam and instead jump directly to the current assessment in their grade level.
This new method of calculating SGP takes into account the fact that some assessments are harder than others. In this case, a student’s growth may be lower this year because they started out with a much higher test score on the previous assessment. This would not be the case if the same assessment was used each year, or if SGP only compared the most recent tests to prior years. This is why the SGP calculator uses a combination of the most recent two tests and the least recent test from an earlier testing window to determine a student’s current SGP. This is an important difference from previous SGP calculations that only looked at the most recent tests and omitted data from prior windows. In this way, the SGP calculator reflects what is expected in a statewide sample. This should be an improvement over past SGP calculations for a wide range of students. It is also an important step towards a more transparent process for student assessment.