The CPS Assessment system contains 3 major types of assessments across all grades:
Baseline to understand where students start the year, Formative to monitor progress
over the course of the year, and
Growth to measure progress by the end of the year.
Outcome analyses used SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM Corporation; Predictive Analytics Software [PASW] 18) and HLM - 6.35 For child and parent outcomes, a piecewise
growth curve modeling approach36 with an intercept representing
baseline levels of functioning and 2 linear slope factors representing change
over time was estimated for each family at the model's first level.