eMetric

https://solutions1.emetric.net/PSSA/Default.aspx

Demo Site User Name: d9999 Password: emetric

Session Agenda

• Overview eMetric• Available data reports• eMetric in the classroom• Question and answers

eMetric

• An interactive tool for analyzing PSSA data by district, school, grade, subgroup, and student

• Stores multiple years of data• PSSA and PASA data• Reporting category data

Things to Keep In Mind

• Blue words indicate pull down menus

• Scrolling over graphs gives other options and information

• Have some questions in mind before you use the interactive web site; this will help you with sifting through the data

Data Informed Decision Making

Data Analysis/

Discovery

Solutions

eMetric is a tool that helps organize data and generate graphs from the data.

Navigating the Home Screen

Only schools with the selected grade are displayed.

Work your way down the screen

Radio Buttons Allow 1 Choice

Boxes Allow Multiple Choices

Select either PSSA or PASA

The PASA Screen

PASA More Selections

PASA Report

PSSA Types of Reports• Group Summary: Scaled Scores and

Performance Levels• Group Summary: Reporting Categories• Graphical Summary: Performance

Levels• Graphical Summary: Subscales• Individual Reports• Cohort Comparison• Matched Cohort Comparison• Longitudinal Individual Performance

Group Summaries

‘Number Tested PL’ includes both PSSA students and PASA students with valid performance level scores

‘Number Tested’ includes only students who took PSSA with a valid scale score

For the history data from 2004 through 2006, ‘Number Tested PL’ is the same as ‘Number Tested’ and includes only students with valid PSSA scores.

Getting Reports• Easily Viewed on

Screen• Can be

disaggregated or modified

Getting Text• Can be imported

into Excel• Can use the data

to make your own graphs

Blue words mean there are drop down menus associated with the screen

Disaggregated Data

N Counts

Downloading and Saving Data

Drill To Roster

Distributed by Ethnicity

Cross Tabulated by Performance

Drill To Roster

Select a Student

Student Data Report

Group Summary: Reporting Categories

Reporting Categories: Reading

Reporting Categories: Mathematics

Group Summary: Reporting Categories

Reporting Categories

Reporting Category Data

Calculate Percentages in Categories

Number of Questions

Average Correct

Percent Correct

Graphical Summary: Performance Levels

Graphical Summary

Three Types• Bar- Performance levels on one line• Histogram- Performance levels horizontally• Line- Plots the mean scaled score over time

Bar Graphs

View the percentage by scrolling over the line.

Clicking on the line pulls up a drop down menu.

Bar Graph Options

Change views by clicking on the options at the bottom.

These graphs can be cut and pasted into other documents.

Histogram

• Clicking on the graph will also pull up a drop down menu, just like for bar graphs.

• Both graphs can be drilled to roster.

Line Graphs

Graphical Summary: Reporting Categories

Individual Reports

Individual Reports

Search By

Individual Reports

eMetric in the Classroom

• Helpful reports:– Summary Reports

• Contain macro data for tested grade levels in building

– Individual Performance• Create class rosters of student performance and

reporting category data

• Use Excel to manipulate the data

What to do with the reports• Summary Reports

– Share with staff

– Provides a snapshot of the performance of the grades in the building on all of the PSSA

– Look at the reporting category data for the grade level

• Individual Performance– Share with specific teachers

– Analyze effectiveness of instruction for targeted anchors or response types

– If looking at longitudinal results, examine trends over time

Questions

Bonnie Dyer

bonnie.dyer@aiu3.net