TVAAS

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(SCORE).

TVAAS TIMELINE

• Late 1980's: Dr. William Sanders and Dr. Robert McClean used long-term data to measure the impact different teachers had on student results. This led to the groundwork of the statistical model TVASS uses today (SCORE).
• 1992: The Education Improvement Act was passed, which required Tennessee to monitor student growth. TVAAS was put into effect using the earlier model by Dr. Sanders and Dr. McClean (SCORE, 2017).
• 1993-2010, administrators and teachers received TVAAS scores annually, but the reports were only informational because there was no regulated process for discussing or applying these results (SCORE).
• 2010, TVAAS data started to count towards 35% of a teachers cumulative evaluation scores as it became combined (SCORE).
• 2013: Teachers were given the choice of using TVAAS scores count for an increased 15% of their cumulative evaluation scores if they scored a 3,4, or 5 on TVAAS (SCORE).

How does TVAAS data influence teachers?

Impact

Data allows:

• teachers to plan for differentiated instruction for specific students or groups of students based on needs.
• teachers to identify students in need of early intervention.
• teachers and students to collaborate and plan academic goals for the year.
• teachers to view and consider their teaching methods. This can focus on their high areas of effectiveness or areas that would benefit from development.
• administrators to recognize exceedingly efficent teachers that can potentially serve as "teachers leaders." These teachers can provide assistance to new teachers and those struggling in certain subjects.

(SCORE).

TVAAS REPORTS

Reports

When viewing reports, it's important to remember reports can be linked together for individual students.

Past Projects:

1. School Value Added: valuable for identifying if your school is efficient or not in a certain test, subject, grade, and year. The schools efficiency is assessed based on the schools impact on a student progres from the most recent grade or course. Useful for reflecting on past reports.

A. School Diagnostic: this report is linked to school added value. It is beneficial when you want to see how advantageous your school has been with students on different achievement levels.

B. Student Pattern: you can link to this report from the school diagnostic report. This is a report of 15 or more students with scores from the past and present, using adjacent grade levels. This reports allow you to select particukar students to see how efficient your school has been for students on all achievement levels.

C. Student History: this report is linked to the student pattern report. This report shows student, school, and system percentiles for a subject and test for a specific student. It is shown is a line plot and table form.

(TVAAS, Future Teacher).

TVAAS Patterns

Patterns

- TVAAS has 4 patterns used when measuring growth.

1. Reverse Shed: shown when low performing students have not maintained a year's growth, while high performing students have shown more than a year's growth.

2. Shed: shown when high performing students have not maintained a year's growth, while low performing students have shown more than a year's growth.

3. Tent: shown when high and low performing students have not maintained a year's growth, while average students have shown more than a year's growth.

4. Optimal: shown when all students have shown growth.

(Tennessee Department of Education & Shelby County Schools; Tennessee Education Association).

TVAAS Models

1. Gain Model: Test conducted in consecutive grades.

2. Predictive Model: Test conducted in non-consecutive grades.

Models

SUBGROUPS AND REPORTING

Subgroups & Reporting

• Students are placed into one or multiple subgroups. A students score will count in each subgroup.
• Subgroups are race, demographics, sex.
• Subgroups growth can determine if a school is a reward school or on watch.
• Teachers are able to run reports to identify what students fall into a certain subgroup or subgroups.
• You will use subgroups when running custom student reports.

(SCORE).

LET TVAAS HELP YOU WHEN YOU'RE

NEW

New Teachers

How new teachers can use TVASS data for instruction:

• to determine if a student or a group of students would benefit from differentiated instruction.
• to decide what areas students need improvement in.
• determine what students need specific, deeper instruction in certain subjects.
• look at predicted scores for low scoring students and try to help exceed this score.
• look at predicted scores for high scoring students and try to help fulfill this prediction.
• no matter what the data says, stay optimistic about student progress.
• connect with more experienced teachers for support and ideas.
• determine what methods would be most beneficial to students for inclusion.