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Score Flags

Overview

Every score TKG Analytics stores carries a set of flags that describe what kind of score it is and how it is grouped. Those flags decide which impacts a score rolls into, which subgroup it belongs to, and how it reads on the tracker. This page is a plain-language glossary of the flags you will run into.

What the score is

  • K-2: a kindergarten, first, or second grade score. K-2 is tracked on its own and is not part of the grades 3-12 accountability calculations.
  • Banked: a high-school score earned early and held until the student reaches 10th grade. The usual cases are 8th-grade compacted math and 9th-grade Algebra I, Biology I, or English II. Banked scores are set aside from current impact and counted later, following state rules.
  • Compacted: a course taken ahead of grade level, for example an 8th grader in the high-school math course. A compacted score is kept under its own key so it does not collide with the student's on-grade score. See Compacted Scores for where a compacted student's prior comes from.
  • Feeder: a score from a course that prepares students for next year's state assessment rather than measuring the current year. Feeder scores are excluded from current impact and shown separately.
  • SCD: a self-contained / alternate-assessment (MAAP-A) student. SCD scores use the alternate performance-level scale.

Which subgroup the score belongs to

These flags drive which subgroup a score, and the teacher impact it rolls into, belongs to:

  • SPED: special education.
  • Gifted: gifted enrollment.
  • EL: English learner.

You can read a teacher's tracker by subgroup using these. See Score Tracker.

Badges on a tracker row

On the Score Tracker, a student's name can carry these badges. The PDF export prints the same words in color.

Badge Color Meaning
Red flag Red The student is excluded from accountability for this year. Hover it to see which exclusion rule applies. See Score Exclusions.
SPED Yellow Special education.
EL Purple English learner.
Banked Applied Spring <year> Blue A banked state score taken in an earlier spring that this assessment's year is counting. <year> is the spring the student took the test.
Banked Forward Spring <year> Blue A banked score the student took during this assessment. <year> is the spring of this assessment's school year.
Compacted Orange A course taken ahead of grade level. See Compacted Scores.
Manual SLAIF Rose The student's SLAIF result was updated by hand. See Adding Missing SLAIF Scores.

A banked score reads Forward on the assessment the student took it on and Applied on a later assessment that counts it. See Banked Scores.

End-of-Course rows in a benchmark tracker

If your district gives the End-of-Course (EOC) exam to 10th graders in the fall and uploads those scores, the EOC result is mixed into the benchmark views for the rest of that year (see the note under Impact Components). On a benchmark tracker you may then see an EOC row sitting alongside the benchmark-period scores.

That row is there on purpose: it is the student's real end-of-year result. It carries no banked badge, because banked scores are 8th and 9th grade scores. As a state score it keeps its Scale Score, even where your district's benchmark rows read n/a. See Columns. If your district does not give the EOC in the fall, you will not see these rows.

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