Trend Reports

Trend reports display the overall performance of a student or group of students across related assessments and administrations. For example, a trend report can show how your Grade 8 students performed in the Mathematics Summative assessments in previous grades.

Note: Trend reports may not be available for all assessments.

This section includes the following:

Accessing the Trend Report

You can access the Trend Report from any of the other types of score reports using the Exploration Menu.

To navigate to a Trend Report:

1.On a score report, click next to the entity whose trend report you wish to view. The Exploration Menu opens (see Navigating Score Reports with the Exploration Menu).

2.From the What drop-down list, select one of the following:

To view an overall subject trend report, select Subject.
To view a claims trend report, select Claims.

3.From the When drop-down list, select Trend.

4. From the other drop-down lists, select values as necessary and click View. The Trend Report opens.

Understanding the Trend Report

The Trend Report page includes a graph that displays the performance of your students over time. A corresponding table appears at the bottom of the page that lists the performance data illustrated on the graph above. Performance data is plotted chronologically for each applicable assessment.

In addition to the columns displaying performance data for each assessment administration, the performance data table at the bottom of the report includes a "Dropped Students" column that indicates whether any students were excluded from the trend report.

If the Dropped Students column shows View, it indicates that some students were not included in the trend report. You can click this button to open a window showing the names of the students who were excluded from the calculations.
If the column displays N/A, then no students were excluded from the trend report.

Note: When viewing data for a student group over time, it is important to use the same sample of students. By excluding students who missed a testing window in the trend report, the ORS ensures that observed changes are the result of actual differences in performance and not the result of a particular student’s absence. Because of this, the average score on the trend report may not always match that of the Subject Detail Report, especially if many students were dropped from the trend calculations.

Trend Reports are interactive. You can choose which assessments to include in the report, which students or student groups are reported, as well as the type of performance data that is displayed on the report. You can also use the Exploration Menu displayed next to each entity in the Choose Who to Graph panel to navigate to other levels and types of reports. For more information, see Performing Actions on the Trend Report.