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The Growth Model Resources
As an educational leader It is essential to understand how to use the growth model data as one of many tools that can lead to improvements in teaching, learning and curriculum design. Using the growth model as a tool to monitor and improve student achievement over time (rather than to judge teacher performance) can stimulate thoughtful, collegial conversations within your department.

Interested in learning more about the Growth Model?
Check out the tutorials and resources on the DESE website.

Student Growth Rosters for Instructional Groups
It is sometimes difficult to get the information you need using the existing data warehouse reports that can be used to stimulate collegial conversations and reflective practice.

Laura Tilton, the Southeast DSAC Technology Specialist, recently created an excellent guide to creating a Student Growth Rosters for Instructional Groups report within the data warehouse. She writes "If you would like to create an MCAS student roster report with growth data for a selected group of students, you can do so in the MA Education Data Warehouse (EDW). For example, the group may be a classroom, intervention group, middle school team, or other instructional group."

Here is her guide: [|CreatingStudentGrowthRostersforInstructionalGroups.pdf]