Data SGP and Data Discovery
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Data sgp is an analytics tool that provides easy to use scripting for analyzing student and teacher data in the R statistical software environment. This open source application is free to download and offers plenty of online resources to help users get started.
This tool allows researchers to analyze student and teacher data with a simple script and provides the ability to save the results in a spreadsheet for further analysis. It can be used to determine if students are making progress in their academic studies, whether teachers are growing their classrooms and meeting expectations, or if there are any areas that need to be addressed to improve student outcomes.
The tool also provides a variety of other useful metrics, including current SGP, which compares student growth with their academic peers nationally using their most recent Star assessment and one prior test from an earlier testing window (Fall, Winter, or Spring). It can also be used to identify low achieving students, help educators assess the amount of growth needed for students to meet achievement targets, and informs how to set goals to achieve those targets.
In addition to aggregating data in the sgpData table, ARM also transmits all measurement data to the Data Discovery portal and makes it freely available. This is a key part of the data sgp project as it enables researchers to validate the ARM sGP results and gain confidence in the model results.
Data Discovery has been built to support research projects that are looking at integrating ARM sGP data with large-eddy simulation models, which are used to simulate atmospheric air currents and cloud processes. This will enable the creation of a self-consistent representation of the atmospheric system that can be used to investigate how climate change affects the Earth’s weather and water systems.
While research consortia and full community databases essentially aggregate the same data, their approaches and goals are very different. Research consortia focus on addressing specific questions of interest to the research community and offer an incentive for researchers to accession metadata and legacy data. Full community databases, such as the ones resulting from the data sgp project, aim to be comprehensive and provide access to essentially all of the available data. This will ensure the most accurate, complete, and timely representation of the data that is currently available.