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This video training module accompanies the About This Report document for the Individual Student Report

available through the Dynamic Score Reporting site.

The Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) is a criterion-referenced test;

meaning that it measures student achievement based on Michigan's content standards.

Therefore, the M-STEP Individual Student Report provides a snapshot of what a student knows, and is able to do, at one point in time

in relation to Michigan's content standards.

The Individual Student Report provides information about student performance by content area.

Each student will have a separate ISR for each content area assessed.

Individual Student Reports are provided for both paper and pencil, and online test takers.

New this year to the Individual Student Report is the Action dropdown menu.

The Action menu appears after the Individual Student Report is selected.

The Action menu contains several options.

The About This Report and the ZIP (Bulk) PDF options are available right away.

The PDF Download option is available when a report is generated.

We will discuss each option for the Individual Student Report Action Menu in detail.

Selecting the About This Report option allows the user to view the About this Report document that accompanies each report.

To view a PDF of the Individual Student Report, select "PDF Download."

This will open a PDF document of the reports, according to your selections in the filter pane.

You can print individual or small groups of reports from this option.

The PDFs can also be saved, if desired, in most internet browsers, with the exception of Chrome.

There is not a Save As option for Chrome at this time.

To print large groups of reports, select "Zip (Bulk PDF) Download."

This selection will open a zip file that will allow the user to download and print all Individual Student reports in all grades and all

content areas for the school.

This video will discuss the three main sections of the Individual Student Report and explain the data displayed in each section.

Remember, as it pertains to student data, the Individual Student Report contains federally protected student information.

This report must be used in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, otherwise known as FERPA.

There are three main sections of the Individual Student Report:

One, the student demographic information section;

Two, the overall performance level and scale score section; and

Three, the claim data for ELA and mathematics section and the discipline data section for science and social studies.

The Student Demographic Information section provides identifying information about the student, which includes the student's

name, grade, gender, the state-assigned Unique Identification Code or UIC, date of birth, and ethnicity.

Also indicated in the Student Demographic section are the designated supports and accommodations the student received during

the assessment.

The Overall Content Performance and Scale Score section includes the student's scale score for the content area and the margin of

error, shaded in gray.

Scale scores are test scores that have been statistically adjusted to a common scale that allows scores to be compared across

different forms of the test.

The margin of error around a student score is an estimate of the range of scores one would expect if the student was to be measured

repeatedly with parallel assessments. Each color band represents a performance level.

The color bands contain a minimum and a maximum scale score range for that performance level.

Red indicates Not Proficient Yellow is Partially Proficient

Green means the student's performance on the test fell within the Proficient range

And, Blue indicates Advanced performance.

This information is available both in graph form and in table form shown here.

Student Growth Percentiles will not be included in the initial release of the Individual Student Report but will be added to the report

at a later date after the initial release.

SGPs require two years' of assessment data.

Therefore, SGPs will not be calculated or reported for 3rd grade ELA and mathematics,

4th grade science, or 5th grade social studies, since these grades and content areas would not have a previous year's

student assessment score. Some student tests are marked "invalid." This means that the test score is not reportable.

The reason for why the test was marked invalid will be provided on the report.

Listed in this section are the Claims, which are used as a means to organize assessment targets.

The claims, which apply to English language arts and mathematics only, have symbol definitions, or claim performance indicators: The example shown

here is for English Language Arts.

You can see each claim and the student's performance with in that clain here.

An upward facing triangle indicates the student is making adequate progress in the

claim. A circle indicates that attention may be needed;

And a downward facing triangle indicates that the student is most at risk of falling behind in the content standards as assessed by the

claim.

In this section foer Science and Social Studies are the Disciplines, and the Assessment Raw Scores.

The disciplines are used as a means to organize content standards and assessment expectations for

Science and Social Studies only.

A raw score indicates points earned over points possible.

Raw scores are not comparable across different forms of the test. As you can see, each discipline has a

number of assessment expectations in which students are assessed.

In this example of a Social Studies report, the first Discipline is History, and the first

expectation is "Describe causal relationships among three Michigan events."

In this section, student points earned out of points possible are displayed for each discipline, as well as the points earned out of

points possible for each expectation.

The information contained in this report should always be used in combination with other benchmark and locally determined data

when determining what a student knows and is able to do in relation to the standards being assessed in each content area.

For more information, please see the Guide to Reports document, which can be found at www.michigan.gov/mstep.

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