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Midterm Ranges

Overview

Midterm Ranges are the percent-correct cut scores Equity Analytics uses to score district midterms. A midterm is a district-created assessment that carries only raw percent-correct data, with no vendor performance level or scale score, so it is scored against this dedicated set of ranges rather than the account's usual calculation method.

Midterm ranges are defined per grade and subject, and they apply to every midterm regardless of how the rest of the district's assessments are calculated.

Availability

Midterm Ranges are part of the Assessment Definitions feature. If your district does not see the tile, open a Helpdesk Ticket.

Where It Lives

The Midterm Ranges tile on your district page opens the setup screen. Only district administrators can edit the cut scores.

Setting Up Midterm Ranges

The first time you open the page, choose how to start:

  • Copy from benchmark ranges seeds each grade and subject from your existing benchmark cut scores. This option appears only when your district has benchmark ranges (custom or K-1 calculation districts).
  • Start from standard defaults seeds the standard percent-correct bands, and is available to every district.

Either way, you can adjust any cut score afterward. Each band is a contiguous percent range from 0 to 100 with no gaps.

The Standard Defaults

Starting from defaults seeds every grade and subject with the standard percent-correct bands. English and math use eight performance levels; science and U.S. History use five.

English and Math

Performance Level Percent Correct
1a 0 to 9
1b 10 to 19
2a 20 to 29
2b 30 to 39
3a 40 to 49
3b 50 to 59
4 60 to 79
5 80 to 100

Science and U.S. History

Performance Level Percent Correct
1 0 to 19
2 20 to 39
3 40 to 59
4 60 to 79
5 80 to 100

Each number you edit is the lower bound of a band. The bands are contiguous from 0 to 100, so raising one band's floor automatically shrinks the band below it.

How Midterms Are Scored

When a district midterm is processed, each student's percent-correct score is matched to the band it falls in for that grade and subject, and that band becomes the student's performance level. This is the same percent-correct logic used by custom cut scores, applied to the midterm range set.

Changing the Cut Scores

Editing a cut score moves the boundary between two performance levels, so students whose percent correct sits near that boundary can shift up or down a level. Because midterm performance levels feed the same impacts, projections, and reports as any other score, changing the bands changes how the midterm reads everywhere downstream.

A performance level is set when the midterm is processed, and it is stored on the score, so timing matters:

  • New cut scores apply to a midterm the next time it is processed.
  • A midterm that has already been processed keeps its performance levels until it is processed again. Changing the cut scores afterward does not retroactively re-score it.

If you adjust the ranges after a midterm has already been processed and need the change reflected, open a Helpdesk Ticket so the midterm can be re-processed. Every change is logged with a timestamp and user name, so you can always see what changed and when.

Notes

  • Midterm ranges are separate from your benchmark ranges; editing one does not change the other.
  • Ranges apply across all grades and subjects, independent of the district's calculation type.

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