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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It favors the poorly performing schools.  When you are at the bottom, the only way is to go up.

When you are at the top, there is no more growth and you are either stagnant or go down.

That is why the high performing schools with many more higher performing kids don’t have as good growth scores.  It doesn’t mean kids are not learning or doing well.

My kid scores 95-98% on math on standardized testing.  Highest percentile in group but terrible growth scores.  No surprises there.  Not much area to improve.

I don’t look at growth scores at all.  I look at the total percentages of kids above grade level to see if there is a cohort of kids and I look at total percentages of kids on/above grade level to see if that represents majority of kids (so at least grade level content can be taught).

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None of the alternatives are good either, from an “easy to understand” perspective. Like should you log transform it? Some sort of poisson based on clearing the “3” threshold? [/quote]

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