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Principals' Uses and Interpretations of Student Growth Percentile Data
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Clauser, Amanda L.; Keller, Lisa A.; Mcdermott, Kathryn A. – Journal of School Leadership, 2016
Increasing numbers of states have incorporated measures of students' academic growth into their data and accountability policies. Measuring growth is a statistically complicated task and complex growth measures can be easy to misinterpret. This paper reports on a survey of 317 Massachusetts principals' understanding of the Student Growth…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Use, Data Interpretation, Outcome Measures