SP SnapShot™ Overview

Data Analysis Techniques
(Best Practices in Testing Assessment)

• Create custom queries to identify particular student achievement or demographic groups according to Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and NCLB criteria
• Incorporate the four pillars of assessment: norm-referenced, interviews, observations, criterion references
• Incorporate state cut points for each grade
• View five years of longitudinal data

Queries

• Simultaneously show which students have strengths or weaknesses in more than one testing area
• Search by more than one test at a time
• See when an individualized education plan needs to be implemented
• Set instructional goals and strategies to help boost student improvement

Student Performance Graphs

• Create school- or class-specific test fields and compare the scores to state or district tests or to other custom fields
• Customize data fields, including building custom graphs that relate to the data in your school or school division
• View visual displays, including graphs that display learning gains
• View and print your comparison reports and graphs
• Examine data for individual students

Reports

• See performance trends over the years for different student subgroups - including reports grouped by teacher, grade, student demographic and other aggregate groups
• Get information to help you assess where your school stands at a glance and enable you to enhance your school improvement plan

Ease-of-Use and Implementation

• Analyze data for each individual student
• Sort data according to first and last names, school, grade, and year of test
• Sort according to codes specific to your state
• Access this web-based format from anywhere at anytime, 24/7

Personal and Secure Access

• Access various types of data, dependant upon your established security level (i.e. as a school administrator you can only view data for your school, while as a teacher you can only view data for your classes)