Standard Reports

The Strengths and Weaknesses by Standard Report displays data for all the standards for each of the reporting categories in the selected test grade and subject.

For information about the entity levels at which standard performance data is available, see Table 1.

Note: Target reports are available for Smarter Summative assessments only.

This section includes the following:

• Accessing the Standard Report
• Understanding the Standard Report
• Performing Actions on the Standard Report

Accessing the Standard Report

To navigate to a Standard Report:

1.On a score report, click next to the entityThis may be a district, school, teacher, or roster. whose Standard 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 Standards.

3.From the When drop-down list, select Current Admin.

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

Understanding the Standard Report

The Strengths and Weaknesses by Standard Report shows how a group of students performed on a test’s standards. The standards in this report are grouped together by reporting categories, such as Reading and Writing, and the sub-categories within those reporting categories, such as Informational Texts.

Note: Student-level reports are not available for Standard performance, because individual students do not usually respond to enough items with the same standard to generate a report of strengths and weaknesses.

The Areas of Strongest and Weakest Performance column indicates the students’ strengths and weaknesses in each standard, relative to their performance on the test as a whole. It does not indicate the students’ actual proficiency in that standard.

• For example, a student group may have performed well in a standard, but not as well as they performed on the whole subject. Thus, a minus sign for that standard would indicate that the performance on it was below the performance on the total test. Although the students are doing well, an educator may still want to focus instruction on these areas.

The standard report also provides information about a group’s actual proficiency level in each standard. The Areas where Performance Indicates Proficiency column displays whether the standard performance is above, at, or below the proficiency levels for that test.

Note: Because the relative strengths and weaknesses for eachstandard are computed within a specific student group, it is not appropriate to compare the standard performance between groups.

Table 7 describes each standard performance relative to proficiency level.

Table 7: Areas where Performance Indicates Proficiency Indicators

Icon	Standard Level	Description
	Above the Proficiency Standard	The group of students performed above the proficiency threshold on this standard.
	Borderline	The group of students performed near the proficiency threshold on this standard.
	Below the Proficiency Standard	The group of students performed below the proficiency threshold on this standard.
	Insufficient Information	Not enough information is available to determine whether the performance on this standard is above, near, or below the proficiency threshold.

Table 8 describes the areas of strongest and weakest performance relative to the test as a whole.

Table 8: Areas of Strongest and Weakest Performance Indicators

Icon	Standard Level	Description
	Area of Strength	This standard is a relative strength. The group of students performed better on items from this standard than they did on the test as a whole.
	Performance is similar to performance on the test as a whole	This standard is neither a relative strength nor a relative weakness. The group of students performed about as well on items from this standard as they did on the test as a whole.
	Area of Weakness	This standard is a relative weakness. The group of students did not perform as well on items from this standard as they did on the test as a whole.
	Insufficient Information	Not enough information is available to determine whether this standard is a relative strength or weakness.

Performing Actions on the Standard Report

From the Standard Report, you can do the following:

• Navigate to other levels of the score report or other types of score reports (see Navigating Score Reports with the Exploration Menu).
• View the report in other languages by selecting an option from the Language drop-down list in the banner (see Using the ORS Banner).
• Print or export the report (see Appendix A).