The Colorado Growth Model is a statistical model to calculate each student's progress on state assessments.
The Colorado Growth Model shows us:
- How individual students (and groups of students) progress from year to year toward state standards.
- Each student's progress is compared to the progress of other students in the state with a similar score history on CMAS PARCC in that subject area (i.e. Math or English Language Arts).
- Also, growth scores are calculated using the same methodology based on WIDA-ACCESS overall performance scores for English Language Learners. In addition, growth is calculated for Math and Evidence-Based reading/writing for the PSAT9, PSAT10, and SAT assessments.
- The observed growth among different groups of students at the state, district, and school level.
- Schools and districts that produce the highest rates of growth in academic achievement.
- These schools or districts may not be ones with the highest test scores every year - growth level is completely independent of achievement level for individual students.
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