What does the Colorado Growth Model tell us?
The Colorado Growth Model shows us • how individual students (and groups of students) progress from year to year toward state standards. Each students progress is compared to the progress of other students in the state with a similar score history on CSAP in that subject area. • the observed growth among different groups of students at the state, district, and school level. • the level of growth that we needed to observe in order to say that students were, on average, on track to catch up or keep up (Adequate Growth) • schools and districts that produce the highest rates of growth in academic achievement. These schools or districts may not be ones with the highest test scores every year – growth level is completely independent of achievement level for individual students.
