How ARM SGP Data Can Be Used in Education

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sgp data is a metric that provides educators with information about student relative growth compared to their academic peers. This information is useful to teachers and administrators for making instructional decisions. It allows them to see if students grew more than, less than or as much as their academic peers. This information also enables educators to determine whether or not they are on track to meet their student’s learning goals. The sgp data can be used to help identify high performing students, differentiate instruction for students with varied skills, and provide feedback on student performance to teachers and parents.

The sgp data is used to measure the amount of progress students have made in an academic subject, such as reading, math or science. It can be used to make informed educational decisions for students and identify students who may need additional support or challenge. It can also be used to identify students who are not making expected progress and plan appropriate interventions.

Students with low sgp data are more likely to drop out of school. This is because these students are at higher risk for academic difficulties, have more difficulty learning, and often require additional supports. To improve the sgp data of these students, teachers need to provide them with the necessary resources and support in order to succeed at school. This can be done by providing students with access to a variety of learning tools, such as tutoring or academic mentoring.

ARM collects and processes data to provide context, a self-consistent representation of atmospheric phenomena, and models that can be used in large eddy simulation (LES) to understand how the atmosphere works. This symbiotic relationship between the simulation and observation programs is a key component of our mission to support scientific discovery.

To help users explore the data and gain an understanding of its uses, we created several exemplar SGP analyses and made them publicly available through Data Discovery. The sgptData_LONG data set is an anonymized, panel data set comprising 8 windows (3 windows annually) of assessment data in LONG format for 3 content areas. This exemplar data set models the format required for using the lower level SGP functions studentGrowthPercentiles and studentGrowthProjections.

The sgptData_INSTRUCTOR data set is an anonymized, teacher-student lookup file that can be used to find student identifiers and grade levels associated with each window of data. It also models the format required for using the lower level function prepareSGP to create student aggregates for SGP analyses.

The sgpdata_LONG and sgpdata_INSTRUCTOR files are provided to facilitate the creation of SGP analyses by educators. The prepareSGP function wraps the steps of preparing LONG data, generating student aggregates, and creating SGP plots into a single function call, simplifying the source code associated with operational SGP analyses. For a more detailed description of the steps involved, see the documentation for prepareSGP. The SGP Package has additional wrapper functions abcSGP and updateSGP that combine these 6 steps into a single function call, further simplifying the source code associated with SGP analyses.