Following
cohorts measures the performance of roughly the same students on the test over time.
Not exact matches
But Jackson also found that there was another distinct
cohort of teachers who were reliably able to raise their students»
performance on his noncognitive
measure.
Beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, for each school identified for preliminary registration review pursuant to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the local school district shall be given the opportunity to present to the commissioner additional assessment data, which may include, but need not be limited to, valid and reliable
measures of: the
performance of students in grades other than those in which the State tests are administered; the
performance of limited English proficient students and / or other students with special needs; and the progress that specific grades have made or that
cohorts of students in the school have made towards demonstrating higher student
performance.
First,
measuring growth at the student level removes confounding factors (different groups of students, demographic shifts,
cohort effects, differential standards across grade levels, etc.) that create variation in proficiency rates unrelated to school
performance.
The new
cohort analysis will offer developers a tool to
measure their
performance over time.
Methods Multivariate analyses of a birth
cohort examined the outcomes for children on
measures of temperament, behavior, and academic
performance in infancy (6 months), at age 5, and at age 12.