About the District Performance on Test Report

District-level users can access the District Performance on Test report, which displays a row of data for each school in the district that completed the given assessment.

To access the District Performance on Test report:

In the Performance on Tests report, click an assessment name.

Table 9 describes the columns in the District Performance on Test report. The columns vary depending on the test. Standard columns with standard measures appear only in adaptive test results.

Table 9: Columns in the District Performance on Test Report
Column Description
School

This column includes the following rows:

  • State: Displays aggregate data, such as mean average scores, for all the students in the state who completed the assessment. These aggregates may be delayed depending on your state's policies, and may not be available for all tests.
  • District: Displays aggregate data, such as mean average scores, for all the students in the district who completed the assessment.
  • [School Name]: Displays aggregate data, such as mean average scores, for the students in that individual school. To access the School Performance on Test report, click a school name.
Total

Displays student performance data for the entire assessment. This column consists of multiple sub-columns, which may include the following:

  • Student Count: Number of students who completed the assessment.
  • Average Score: Mean average assessment score.
  • Performance Distribution: The percentage and count of students who performed at each performance level.
  • Percent Proficient: Percentage of students who achieved proficiency, as determined by performance level.
[Reporting Category] (multiple columns)

Displays student performance data for each reporting category. Each column contains sub-columns, which may include the following:

  • Average Score: Mean average scores in the reporting category.
  • Performance Distribution: The percentage of students who performed at each performance level for the reporting category.
  • [Cluster]: A cluster of standards within the reporting category.
    • [Standard]: A standard within the cluster. Each standard contains sub-columns for measures:
      • Weak or Strong?: You may want to identify strengths and weaknesses in different standards so you can focus instruction on very specific areas where the most improvement is needed. This column displays icons indicating how students’ average performance on the standard compares with their average performance on the overall test. Note that these icons indicate only relative performance and not proficiency.
      • Proficient: This column displays icons indicating the average level of proficiency students have attained in the standard.
Writing Dimensions

Displays information on how each group of students performed on each writing dimension. Writing dimensions measure different aspects of writing performance. Contains the following columns under the Essay header:

  • [Essay type]: An essay type in the test.
    • [Writing dimension]: A writing dimension within the essay type, as listed in item rubrics.
      • [Point value]: A sub-column for each possible item point value for the writing dimension. Each point value sub-column displays the percentage and number of students who earned that number of points.
      • For each dimension, the lowest Lowest percentage arrow icon and highest Highest percentage arrow icon point values are sometimes highlighted and marked with arrow icons in the rows with the highest percentages. This allows you to quickly identify groups of students who are performing well and those who may need additional support.

        Note that highlighting and arrow icons will not appear where they are not useful. A report containing only one row of data will not have them, and neither will a row in which the percentages are "n/a" or are all the same.

        To learn more about highlighting and arrow icons, click the more information button More information button in the Essay header. A legend expands.

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