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Student Growth Percentiles

Student growth percentiles (SGPs) describe how much a student grew academically relative to peers with similar score histories. Introduced by Damian Betebenner in 2009, the method fits a series of conditional quantile regressions of a current test score on prior scores, then reports each student's growth as the percentile rank they occupy within the distribution of students who had the same starting point. A student at the 70th growth percentile grew faster than 70 percent of academic peers, regardless of their absolute achievement level.

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Student Growth Percentiles for Normative Academic Growth
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / education
  • Betebenner, D. W. (2009). Norm- and criterion-referenced student growth. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 28(4), 42–51. · DOI 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2009.00161.x
  • Koenker, R. (2005). Quantile Regression. Cambridge University Press. · ISBN 9780521845731
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Same method familyEducational Growth Curve Modelingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyQuantile Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoValue-Added Modelingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyValue-Added Teacher Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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