District presenter explains PVAAS growth reports; district to receive fuller data review after new year

An unidentified presenter (Speaker 3 in the transcript) described how PVAAS is used to measure student growth across years rather than only achievement at one point. "PVAAS works hand in hand... it helps us measure growth, not just their achievements for a moment in time," the presenter said, explaining that the system uses historical data starting in third grade to project how students may perform in later grades.

The presenter described teacher-facing reports that separate each class into low-, middle- and high-performing thirds to help teachers reflect on which instructional practices produced growth: "There's a report that teachers can look at that just takes their students as, the lowest third of scoring of their students, the middle third scoring of students, and the highest scoring third of students... It just tells you how well those buckets grew or not."

The presenter also highlighted "child success summaries," which compile a student's historical data and provide a probability estimate of scoring proficient on the PSSA; the presenter suggested grouping students with a 40–70% probability into targeted small-group instruction to raise proficiency. The transcript records the presenter saying Dr. Berryman "has plans to give you a data review after the new year."

Board members asked clarifying questions about whether these assessments were in-house and about cadence; the presenter and other speakers clarified the local tests are shorter than the PSSA, are used periodically (one example: after the first 60 days), and inform interventions and instruction. No formal policy change or vote was recorded on assessment tools during this meeting.