A Technical Overview of the Student Growth Percentile Methodology: Student Growth Percentiles and Percentile Growth Projections/Trajectories.

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Using Student Test Scores to Measure Teacher Performance (2015, methodology): “Evaluation systems based on the Colorado Growth Model (Betebenner, 2008, 2011) or a close variant are particularly likely to ignore estimation error.”
Contrasting OLS and Quantile Regression Approaches to Student “Growth” Percentiles (2013, background): “Alternatively, the most recent version of the ‘‘SGP’’ package (Betebenner, 2011c) allows states to save the .2, .4, .6, and .8 quantiles of a large multicohort data set as ‘‘reference’’ knots for use in all subsequent derivations of SGPs.”