When will student growth data be available?

The availability of student growth data depends on the measure in question. Some measures won’t be available until later in the summer, such as value-add scores, AP scores, or College and Career Readiness percentiles, because the data underpinning those measures won’t be processed until that time.

The timing of finalized student growth data, however, reinforces two critical concepts in T-PESS. Student growth is one of multiple measures of campus performance and a principal’s practice, and decisions should take into consideration more than just single-year student growth. Second, in a formative evaluation process like T-PESS, the timing of student growth data reinforces the ongoing loop between evaluation, feedback, and development. Discussions about a principal’s practice should be ongoing and should evolve over the course of the year. Student growth data can be analyzed when available and should be taken into consideration when a principal modifies or adjusts his or her goals and initiatives at the beginning of a new school year.