• Student Growth for Educator Evaluation

  Legislation requires that 25 percent of teacher and administrator evaluations be based on "student growth and assessment data” during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.  Furthermore, beginning in 2018-2019, the law requires that 40 percent of half of teacher and administrator evaluations be based on "student growth and assessment data”, with half of the growth component of evaluations comprised of state assessment data for tested grades and subjects.  Schools, districts, ISDs, and PSAs using educator evaluation as a continual improvement process are encouraged to define student growth and assessment data as the academic performance of a student or group of students over two or more time points (Castellano and Ho, 2013). Below, you will find resources that will help you as you determine the best way to use state and local data in evaluations that are fair to educators and most likely to lead to improved teacher performance.

Approaches to Measuring Student Growth

• Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs)

  Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) represent one powerful way to quantify the learning of individual students over one or more years. Conceptually, SGPs communicate the degree to which a student has learned in a particular domain, compared to a group of academic peers who had a comparable score on the previous test (or multiple previous tests) in that subject.
   

• EVAAS Value Added Model

  The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) has contracted SAS to provide value-added reports to provide efficient access of effective student growth data for use within educator evaluations. EVAAS reports are not intended to replace reporting tools provided by the state such as MI School Data and Secure Site Dynamic Score Reports, but rather supplement these reports to provide a clear picture of academic growth and achievement.

• Student Learning Objectives (SLOs)

  Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) are measurable, long-term, academic goals, informed by available data that a teacher or teacher team sets at the beginning of the year for all students.

Additional Resources

• Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness (MCEE) Report

  This is the commissioned report on educator evaluations that informed the Michigan Educator Evaluation Legislation. The link above provides background information on the council, an executive summary of its recommendations, and the full report

• Student Growth Score Exclusion Guidance

  This document is intended to provide guidance to Michigan educators for the exemption of student growth data within educator evaluations consistent with (380.1249(2)(i)).

• 2015 State of the States: Evaluating, Teaching, Leading and Learning

  The National Council on Teacher Quality report on educator evaluation across all 50 states.

• Measuring Teachers' Contributions to Student Learning Growth for Non-tested Grades and Subjects

  This Research & Policy Brief provides information about options for states to explore as well as factors to consider when identifying and implementing measures.  The brief emphasizes the importance of fairly measuring all teachers, including them in the evaluation process, and ensuring validity in measurement.