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Grade Impacts

Overview

Grade Impacts break a district, school, or teacher's accountability picture out by grade. Where an impact gives you the school or district total, grade impacts show the same measures one grade at a time, so you can see which grade is carrying the rating and which is dragging it down.

Each grade impact carries its performance-level counts and growth counts, and you can drill from a grade into the actual students behind a performance level or growth band.

Where It Lives

  • The Grade Impacts view lists the grade impacts for a district, school, or teacher, most recent year and period first.
  • You can filter by year, or view all years together.
  • Opening a grade impact lets you drill into the students at a given performance level or growth level for a subject.
  • CSV and PDF exports are available.

Assessment Definitions

Like the full impact, each grade impact is computed for an Assessment Definition, the assessment given that period. See How impacts are generated for the bigger picture.

How To Use It

  1. Open Grade Impacts for the district, school, or teacher you are reviewing.
  2. Pick a year, or choose to view all years.
  3. Scan the grades to find where performance is strongest and weakest.
  4. Open a grade and drill into a subject's performance level or growth band to see the students behind the number.

What Data Feeds It

Grade Impacts are built from the same processed scores as impacts, grouped by grade:

  • As scores process, Equity Analytics calculates the performance-level and growth counts per grade.
  • Growth counts depend on students having a prior and current score, the same as the growth components on the full impact.

They update as new score files process.

Common Questions

  • How are grade impacts different from the impact view? Same measures, split by grade. The impact view totals everything; grade impacts show each grade on its own.
  • Why is a grade missing? A grade only appears once it has processed scores for the selected year and period.
  • Why are growth counts low for a grade? Growth needs a prior and current score per student, so students missing a year do not count.

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