Navigate the Administrator Growth Report Pages

Growth reports show organization, school, class, and student results from HMH Growth Measure assessments.

Note:

      The Growth Report for All Students (class report) and the Growth Report for Individual Student are available for reports starting with the 2020–2021 school year and beyond and only for HMH Growth Measure Math and HMH Growth Measure Reading assessments. These reports are available for Spanish Reading Growth Measure assessments starting with the 2023–2024 school year.

      If your organization does not have access to any of the growth measure learning programs, such as Into Reading, Into Literature, Into Math, Into AGA, Math in Focus, ¡Arriba la Lectura!, Waggle, Math 180, and Read 180, then the growth reports are not available to you.

      The examples and details in this topic apply to Growth Measure Reading and Growth Measure Math reports only.

 

You can view the growth measure assessments report for the organization, for a school, for a selected grade-level, for a specific class (all students), or for an individual student. For details about how to get to the class report, see Open Growth Reports.

The class report and individual student report are described here.

    To move down the page and view the details of a specific report type, click one of the following report-type links:

      Growth Measure Assessments Report for All Students within a Class

      Growth Measure Assessments Report for an Individual Student

 

Growth Measure Assessments Report for All Students

    Click a letter or outlined area to view the Growth Measure Assessments Report for All Students page details.

 

 

Report Information, Print By Options, Print Report Button, and Export CSV Button

 

      Details about the selected report are displayed, including the student name, assessment title, and test name.

      The Print Report button allows you to print the selected report or save the report as a PDF. This option can be used for class reports or individual student reports; the student option allows you to select one, multiple, or all students in the class to print individual reports for each selected student. (See Print or Export Growth Reports for details.)

      The Export CSV button allows you to export the data in the table of the class report as a comma separated value (CSV) file. (See Print or Export Growth Reports for details.)

Test Level, Test Window, and Student Lists

 

These lists allow you to select filters to view the desired report, as follows:

Test Level – Select a test level for which to view the growth report.

Test Window – Select the test window of the growth report you want to see (Beginning, Middle, or End of Year).

Reports for – Select the entire class (All students) or an individual student for which to view the growth report.

Class Performance Scatter Plot

 

This scatter plot displays color bands, each representing proficiency score ranges for the test and data points, each representing the Scaled Score of a student on the most recent test.

    Click a node to view the test score for each student or click a color band link (below the graph) to view the list of students whose scores fall within that score range.

Class Proficiency Graph

Note:

      The class average score is represented on the graph by the large black and white node class average icon.

      If a student has no data for the most recent test, then that student does not appear on the graphs or lists.

Domain Performance Levels Graph

 

This area provides a bar graph of the domain performance levels for the students in your class. This breaks down the test performance by the skill domains that are measured by the selected test and shows how many students in your class are performing above level, approaching, on level, below level, and far below level for each domain.

 

    Click any bar to view the list of students whose scores fall within that score range.

 

Domain Performance Levels bar chart

Growth Assessment Table

 

This area provides all the class test results in a table format. The first table displayed is the most recent test; if previous tests are available, you can select another test to view.

For each student in the class, the table includes the date the test was submitted, time spent taking the test, Scaled Score, proficiency level, change from the previous test (if available), Grade Level Equivalency, Student Growth Index, and the current Quantile (math) or Lexile (reading) interval.

 

    Click a table header to sort the table according to that column. (Some of the columns do not offer a sorting option.)

 

Note: Each growth measure report can have up to three tests in a school year.

 

Growth Assessment Table

The growth scores are defined as follows:

      Scaled Score – the first value of this score is the test-level based scale, which is often the same as the student’s rostered grade-level, but not always.

For GM Reading K–2: Foundational Literacy, also known as the FLA, the Scaled Score is presented as FLA-01 to FLA-99.

For AGA (Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2) Growth Measure Scaled Scores, the following test-level values are displayed:

AGA Test

Scaled Scores

  Algebra 1

ALG1-##

  Geometry

GEO1-##

  Algebra 2

ALG2-##

 

      Performance Level – summary information to help educators refine their instructional next steps; five performance levels (Far Below Level, Below Level, Approaching, On Level, and Above Level) are provided for each subject and test level for consistency in reporting and general comparisons across all grades and growth measure subjects.

The performance levels correspond to the scaled score cuts, as shown in the table below:

Scaled Score Label

Scaled Score Low

Scaled Score High

Far Below

1

20

Below Level

21

45

Approaching

46

60

On Level

61

80

Above Level

81

99

 

The five performance levels categorize student performance in the context of where each student is “now” at the time of test taking. Every district, PLC, intervention team, and teacher has their own evaluation criteria, processes, and best practices for using these types of data to drive instructional and RTI/MTSS next steps.

 

Click here to view detailed descriptions of each level and a note about the Standards Report.

 

      Domain Performance Level – summary information to help educators refine their instructional next steps; five performance levels (Far Below Level, Below Level, Approaching, On Level, and Above Level) are provided for each subject and test level for consistency in reporting and general comparisons across all grades and growth measure subjects.

Note: Growth Measure Math Grades K and 1 do not use all five performance level categories. A Grade K student who completes a Growth Measure assessment will be placed into three of the five new performance levels. See breakdown of the performance levels and Scaled Scores below.

Scaled Score Label

Scaled Score Low

Scaled Score High

Far Below

 

 

Below Level

 

 

Approaching

1

60

On Level

61

80

Above Level

81

99

 

A Grade 1 student who completes a Growth Measure assessment will be placed into four of the five new performance levels.

Scaled Score Label

Scaled Score Low

Scaled Score High

Far Below

 

 

Below Level

1

45

Approaching

46

60

On Level

61

80

Above Level

81

99

 

      Grade Level Equivalency (GLE) –  the GLE is a corresponding metric to the scaled score; at the time of the test, the GLE shows how far a student is from end-of-year grade-level expectations. Where the scaled score represents students' readiness to learn grade-level content, the GLE represents students' growth within a performance level towards end-of-year expectations.

The range of GLEs vary by Growth Measure test level with a maximum of eight (8) possible grade levels for a single test level. The GLE is broken down into .2 increments. For example, a GLE of 4.0 increments in two tenths: 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.8. The super set of GLE are then distributed across the scaled score ranges (for example, 401 to 499) following a nationally derived distribution of students.

The GLE categories are shown in the table below:

  GLE Category

  >2 Grade Levels Below

  2 Grade Levels Below

  1 Grade Level Below

  On Grade Level

  Above Grade Level

 

Note: GLE is not provided for the FLA and displays as "N/A" in FLA Growth Measure reports.

 

      Lexile (reading) or Quantile (math) Intervals – to help educators personalize instruction for each student

 

      Student Proficiency Indicator (SPI) – supplemental student-specific information that categorizes the change in scores between tests; the SPI is a personalized metric that takes into consideration where a student is at in each testing window and evaluates the student's likelihood of achieving or maintaining On Level scaled scores.

 

Growth Measure Assessments Report for Individual Student

    Click a letter or outlined area to view the Growth Measure Assessments Report for Student page details.

 

Report Information, Print By Options, Print Report Button, Export CSV Button, and Parent View Button

 

      Details about the selected report are displayed, including the student name, assessment title, and test name.

      The Print Report button allows you to print the selected report or save the report as a PDF. This option can be used for class reports or individual student reports; the student option allows you to select one, multiple, or all students in the class to print individual reports for each selected student. (See Print or Export Growth Reports for details.)

      The Export CSV button allows you to export the data in the table of the class report as a comma separated value (CSV) file. (See Print or Export Growth Reports for details.)

      The Go to Parent View button to allows you to view the student report with the class comparison data removed. This provides a report with only the selected student's data displayed, which allows you to save or print a report that is appropriate to share with parents. Click to view example of a Parent View report page.

    To return to the individual student report with class comparisons displayed, click the Teacher View button.

Test Level, Test Window, and Student Lists

 

These lists allow you to select report filters to view the desired report, as follows:

Test Level – Select a test level for which to view the growth report. The Test Level equals the student’s grade level in Ed at the start of the test.

Test Window – Select the test window of the growth report you want to see (Beginning, Middle, or End of Year).

Reports for – Select the entire class (All students) or an individual student for which to view the growth report.

Growth Measure Overview

 

This area displays the student's test results, including the selected test HMH Scaled Score, total year-to-date growth (which shows the growth of the most recent tests scores from the scores of the first test of the year), Grade Level Equivalent, and current Quantile (math) or Lexile (reading) interval.

area displays the student's test results

Class Performance Scatter Plot

 

This scatter plot displays color bands, each representing proficiency score ranges for the test and data points, each representing the Scaled Score of a student on the most recent test.

 

    Click a node to view the test score for each student or click a color band link (below the graph) to view the list of students whose scores fall within that score range.

Current Performance Graph showing selected student node

Note:

      The selected student is represented on the graph by a node with the student's initials Graph node with Student Initials.

      The class average score is represented on the graph by the large black and white node class average icon.

      If a student has no data for the most recent test, then that student does not appear on the graphs or lists.

Domain Performance Levels Graph

 

This area provides a bar graph of the domain performance levels for the students in your class. This breaks down the test performance by the skill domains that are measured by the selected test and shows how many students in your class are performing above level, approaching, on level, below level, and far below level for each domain.

The selected student is represented on the graph by a node with the student's initials Graph node with Student Initials.

 

    Click any bar to view the list of students whose scores fall within that score range.

Domain performance level bar graph

 

Growth Assessment Table

 

The table shows the student's test results for all the test events for the school year and includes the date the test was submitted, time spent taking the test, Scaled Score, performance level, change from the previous test (if available), grade level equivalency, and the current Quantile (math) or Lexile (reading) interval.

 

Note: Each Growth Report can have up to three tests in a school year.

Growth Assessment table

 

The growth scores are defined as follows:

      Scaled Score – the first value of this score is the test-level based scale, which is often the same as the student’s rostered grade-level, but not always.

For GM Reading K–2: Foundational Literacy, also known as the FLA, the Scaled Score is presented as FLA-01 to FLA-99.

For AGA (Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2) Growth Measure Scaled Scores, the following test-level values are displayed:

AGA Test

Scaled Scores

  Algebra 1

ALG1-##

  Geometry

GEO1-##

  Algebra 2

ALG2-##

 

      Performance Level – summary information to help educators refine their instructional next steps; five performance levels (Far Below Level, Below Level, Approaching, On Level, and Above Level) are provided for each subject and test level for consistency in reporting and general comparisons across all grades and growth measure subjects.

The performance levels correspond to the scaled score cuts, as shown in the table below:

Scaled Score Label

Scaled Score Low

Scaled Score High

Far Below

1

20

Below Level

21

45

Approaching

46

60

On Level

61

80

Above Level

81

99

 

The five performance levels categorize student performance in the context of where each student is “now” at the time of test taking. Every district, PLC, intervention team, and teacher has their own evaluation criteria, processes, and best practices for using these types of data to drive instructional and RTI/MTSS next steps.

 

Click here to view detailed descriptions of each level and a note about the Standards Report.

 

      Domain Performance Level – summary information to help educators refine their instructional next steps; five performance levels (Far Below Level, Below Level, Approaching, On Level, and Above Level) are provided for each subject and test level for consistency in reporting and general comparisons across all grades and growth measure subjects.

Note: Growth Measure Math Grades K and 1 do not use all five performance level categories. A Grade K student who completes a Growth Measure assessment will be placed into three of the five new performance levels. See breakdown of the performance levels and Scaled Scores below.

Scaled Score Label

Scaled Score Low

Scaled Score High

Far Below

 

 

Below Level

 

 

Approaching

1

60

On Level

61

80

Above Level

81

99

 

A Grade 1 student who completes a Growth Measure assessment will be placed into four of the five new performance levels.

Scaled Score Label

Scaled Score Low

Scaled Score High

Far Below

 

 

Below Level

1

45

Approaching

46

60

On Level

61

80

Above Level

81

99

 

      Grade Level Equivalency (GLE) – the GLE is a corresponding metric to the scaled score; at the time of the test, the GLE shows how far a student is from end-of-year grade-level expectations. Where the scaled score represents students' readiness to learn grade-level content, the GLE represents students' growth within a performance level towards end-of-year expectations.

The range of GLEs vary by Growth Measure test level with a maximum of eight (8) possible grade levels for a single test level. The GLE is broken down into .2 increments. For example, a GLE of 4.0 increments in two tenths: 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.8. The super set of GLE are then distributed across the scaled score ranges (for example, 401 to 499) following a nationally derived distribution of students.

The GLE categories are shown in the table below:

  GLE Category

  >2 Grade Levels Below

  2 Grade Levels Below

  1 Grade Level Below

  On Grade Level

  Above Grade Level

 

Note: GLE is not provided for the FLA and displays as "N/A" in FLA Growth Measure reports.

 

      Lexile (reading) or Quantile (math) Intervals – to help educators personalize instruction for each student

 

      Student Proficiency Indicator (SPI) – supplemental student-specific information that categorizes the change in scores between tests; the SPI is a personalized metric that takes into consideration where a student is at in each testing window and evaluates the student's likelihood of achieving or maintaining On Level scaled scores.

 

See Also:

Open Growth Reports