Analyzing Root Cause
Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS)
PVAAS is one of the tools supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to provide web-based reporting to Pennsylvania’s public school districts, charter schools, cyber charter schools, full-time Career and Technology Centers, and Intermediate Units (IUs). This web-based reporting tool includes data on the academic growth for groups of students, student projections to achievement, and longitudinal student assessment history for educators to make data-informed instructional decisions
Learn more about the many Pennsylvania Department of Education - Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS) resources.
Root Cause & Digging Deeper
Resources found here focus on taking the use of K-12 data, including PVAAS data, to the next level to determine key factors and root causes which are impacting students’ academic performance.
A key step between identifying trends and patterns in your data and developing and implementing an action plan is to determine key factors and root causes which are impacting student outcomes identified by data. Without taking the necessary step of determining root cause(s) by digging deeper into the “why,” action plans may not be focused on appropriate and meaningful courses of action. Click here for more information on The Digging Deeper Guides (PDF).
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Digging Deeper Documents
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Resources to Support the Root Cause Analysis/Digging Deeper
