What do growth reports show that standard MCAS and AYP reports don ?
School and district growth reports display information about how much academic progress students made in relation to their academic peers (students with a similar MCAS test result history). MCAS reports present information about the performance of students at the end of each school year, displaying the distribution of students performing at each of the MCAS performance levels. Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) reports display information about how close a school or district is to helping all students reach or exceed proficiency. While the measure of improvement on AYP reports is correlated with individual student growth, it is focused on comparisons of grade-level cohorts (e.g., this year’s 4th graders compared to last year’s 4th graders). In addition, AYP reports do not measure any change in performance for students at or above the Proficient performance level.
