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Building Growth

Interacting with the Report

View the growth of your building's students in the most recent year.

As the building math coordinator, you want to determine which grades need the most support based on the growth index.

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. Select Growth under the Building Reports heading.
  3. In the filter panel, select the Growth columns needed under Data to Display.
  4. In the Tests and Subjects section, click the arrows next to the MAP Grade Level (GLA) and MAP Grade Level and EOC (GLA and EOC) filters to expand them.
  5. Deselect all subjects except math under MAP Grade Level (GLA) and MAP Grade Level and EOC (GLA and EOC).
  6. The growth data for math in the current year appears in the report.
Compare your most recent year of growth and performance with previous years.

As an elementary school principal, you would like to determine whether a support program for fifth-grade math has produced positive growth and performance results over the last two years.

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. Select Growth under the Building Reports heading.
  3. In the filter panel, select the Growth and Performance columns needed under Data to Display.
  4. In the Tests and Subjects section, click on the arrow next to the MAP Grade Level (GLA) filter to expand it.
  5. Clear the check boxes for all subjects except math.
  6. Expand the menu for math and select fifth grade.
  7. Under Years, select the check boxes for the two most recent years.
  8. The growth and performance data appears in the report.
View performance for one or more subjects, grades, courses, or years.

As a middle school principal, you are meeting with the math department to show their students' performance upon exiting each grade.

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. Select Growth under the Building Reports heading.
  3. In the filter panel, select the Performance columns needed under Data to Display.
  4. In the Tests and Subjects section, click on the arrow next to the MAP Grade Level (GLA) filter to expand it.
  5. Deselect all subjects except math.
  6. Expand the menu for math to deselect any grade that you don't want to view.
  7. Under Years, select the check boxes for the years you want to view.
  8. The data appears in the report.
View the growth of a cohort of students over time.

As the math coordinator, you are documenting the results of a grant supporting your students' learning in math. Use the Building Growth report to find the math growth indexes of last year's fifth-grade cohort over the past two years.

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. Select Growth under the Building Reports heading.
  3. In the filter panel, select the Growth columns needed under Data to Display.
  4. In the Tests and Subjects section, click on the arrow next to the MAP Grade Level (GLA) filter to expand the menu.
  5. Deselect all subjects except math.
  6. Expand the menu for math and deselect all grades except fifth grade.
  7. Under Years, select the check boxes for the years you want to view.
  8. The data appears in the report.
View growth and performance for grades over multiple years.

As the building admin, you are preparing for a vertical team meeting with your middle school math teachers. At this meeting, you want to display math growth results and discuss the trends.

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. Select Growth under the Building Reports heading.
  3. In the filter panel, select the Growth and Performance columns needed under Data to Display.
  4. In the Tests and Subjects section, click on the arrow next to MAP Grade Level (GLA).
  5. Deselect all subjects except math.
  6. Under Years, select the check boxes for the years you want to view.
  7. The data appears in the report.
How to compare growth results between buildings.

As a school principal, you want to compare your building's growth measures in Science to other schools in the district.

  1. Click the Reports tab.
  2. Select Growth under the Building Reports heading. Change the currently selected Building to your building if needed.
  3. In the filter panel, under LEAs and Buildings, click Add a Comparison. A new LEA and Buildingsā€¦ drop-down menu populates.
  4. Select one of the Buildings you want to compare from the drop-down menu.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all the schools are added. You can add up to 10 buildings to the comparison list.
  6. In the Test and Subjects section, deselect all subjects except Science.
  7. The growth data for Science in five schools appear in the report and can be compared.