Legislation requires that 20 percent of teacher and administrator evaluations be based on student growth and assessment data. Schools, districts, ISDs, and PSAs using educator evaluation as a continual improvement process are encouraged to define student growth and assessment data goals over two or more points in time (Castellano and Ho, 2013). Below are resources to use state and local data as part of a transparent, fair, and rigorous evaluation process to support professional learning, growth, and improved educator performance.
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.
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.
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)).
The National Council on Teacher Quality report on student growth within educator evaluation across all 50 states.
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.
The Student Growth Workshops are designed for district teams of central office administrators, building administrators, and teacher leaders to collaboratively develop district plans for measuring student growth for educator evaluations. Video recordings of three day-long workshop sessions providing specific guidance and structured activities are now available.
Since 2018, the State School Aid Act has provided funding for MDE to contract SAS® EVAAS to develop value-added reports to all districts and public school academies. These reports are designed to allow additional insight into student performance on state assessments by including diagnostic information and measures of academic growth made in a selected grade and subject.
Additionally, in fiscal years 2023 and 2024, the State School Aid Act funding included requirements that MDE make data publicly available on an external website that provides student growth metrics at the district and school level by grade and subject. The development of the site was provided by the MI-EVAAS value-added reporting platform and the public facing website was launched in March 2024 with state assessment student growth data available through the 2022-23 academic year.
In fiscal year 2025, the State School Aid Act did not allocate funding for MDE to contract SAS® EVAAS to provide value-added reports to all districts and public school academies. Therefore, there will not be reports developed for the state assessments for the 2023-24 academic year.
School district users will find that the login-restricted website will no longer be accessible, however the publicly available external site will continue to display prior reports with state assessment student growth data available through the 2022-23 academic year.
For the most updated state assessment student performance information including the 2023-24 academic year, Michigan districts and public school academies can securely access student growth reports in the dynamic reports section of the MDE Secure Site. Additionally, publicly accessible student growth reports can be found on MISchoolData.org.
