Contributions to Student Outcomes (Academic Growth over Time)

Our plan includes developing and incorporating measures of each individual educator’s contributions to student learning, including approaches that use open-ended student assessments (e.g., standardized writing assignments) and closed-ended student assessments (e.g., California Standards Tests).

Academic Growth over Time

The District is moving toward a new and comprehensive system of computing student gains (Academic Growth over Time), which helps us know how much students have progressed on standardized tests from one year to the next. This provides a more complete picture of student learning because it compares a student’s performance to his/her own expected performance (rather than comparing groups of students one year to different groups of students the following or preceding year).

Academic Growth over Time also allows us to examine the impact of schools and educators on student learning outcomes and uses a value-added method that controls for external factors which often influence student test results. The Board of Education and the Superintendent are committed to the selection of the most relevant and accurate value-added statistical model to compute school-level Academic Growth over Time.

This April, LAUSD will publish Academic Growth over Time results for each of our schools. To access the school-level reports and training tools that will help you better understand this data, click here.  Later in the year, we will provide educators with their Academic Growth over Time results in a confidential, no stakes manner. Click here for answers to your Frequently Asked Questions.