The Role of Student Growth Percentiles in Monitoring Learning and Predicting Learning Outcomes

摘要: Most formative assessments rely on the performance status of a student at particular time point. However, such method does not provide any information propensity to achieve predetermined target score or whether is performing as per expectations from identical students with same history academic achievement. Although trend has been proposed via use growth percentiles (SGPs), most work associated SGPs focused mainly teacher and school accountability. In this article, however, we illustrate examples in entry percentile scores monitor students' learning progress. Monitoring trends, evaluated context their score, would likely yield meaningful differential even for point time.