ABSTRACT
Over the last decade, large-scale annual testing has provided states with unprecedented access to longitudinal student data. Current use of this data focuses primarily upon analyses of growth most often directed toward accountability decisions. Analyses using this longitudinal data source for other purposes have gone largely untapped. This chapter describes analysis techniques and provides results showing how student growth percentiles, a norm-referenced growth analysis technique, can be used to examine the illuminate the relationship between standards-based accountability systems and the performance standards on which they are based.
