RESOURCES

EVAAS HELP FILES

These Help Files provide information on how to use and interpret many of the reports currently found in EVAAS.

• Teacher Value-Added MRM (Reports for Grades 3 -8 ELA and Math Teachers): TeacherVA - MRM
  
  
• Teacher Value-Added URM (Reports for Science, EOC, and CTE Teachers): TeacherVA - URM
  
  
• Teacher Diagnostic MRM (Report for Grades 3 - 8 ELA and Math Teachers): TeacherDiag - MRM
  
  
• Teacher Diagnostic URM (Report for Science, EOC, and CTE Teachers): TeacherDiag - URM
  
  
• Teacher Student Patterns MRM (Report for Grades 3 - 8 ELA and Math Teachers): TeacherStuPattern - MRM
  
  
• Teacher Student Patterns URM (Reports for Science, EOC, and CTE Teachers): TeacherStuPattern - URM
  
  
• Teacher Evaluation Composite: TeacherEvalComposite
  
  
• School Evaluation Composite: SchoolEvalComposite
  
  
• Summary of Teacher Reports for a District: DistrictTeacherSummary
  
  
• Summary of Teacher Reports for a School: SchoolTeacherSummary
  
  

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Web-Based Trainings from the SAS Institute
Access web-based trainings from the SAS Institute on various reports within EVAAS. No pre-registration is required. Visit the EVAAS website and click on 'Schedule of Virtual Professional Development.'

Face-to-Face Trainings from the Educator Effectiveness Team
Attend a face-to-face session on EVAAS led by one of the Department of Public Instruction's professional development leads. Visit the professional development calendar and search for EVAAS.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Spring 2013
(pdf, 121kb)

Summer 2013
(pdf, 42kb)

NOTIFICATIONS TO EDUCATORS

During the fall of 2013, teachers, administrators, and district staff will receive access in EVAAS to value-added and evaluation dashboard reports from the 2012-13 school year. Users will receive email notifications when reports are released, and the Department of Public Instruction will post the text of those email notifications here after they have been sent.

OTHER RESOURCES

Information on Teacher Evaluation Dashboards
Teacher Evaluation Dashboards provide educators with access to their ratings on Standards 1 - 6 of the NC Teacher Evaluation System, as well as their progress toward staus.
(pdf, 504kb)

EVAAS Reports Overview
This document provides an overview and samples of some of the more commonly-used EVAAS reports.
(pdf, 438kb)

EVAAS Changes Overview
This document provides an overview of changes made in EVAAS reporting on the 2011-12 school year. Due to some policy changes, some features of the reports changed from the 2010-11 school year to the 2011-12 school year.
(pdf, 108kb)

Guidance on Teacher-Level Access to Student Projections
This document provides information on how to add access to student-level projection information for teachers, as well as cautions around accessing the data.
(pdf, 266kb)

Information on Teacher Value-Added Reports
This slide deck provides more information on how to interpret and use the teacher value-added reports.
(pdf, 2.0mb)

Information on Normal Curve Equivalents (NCEs) and Standard Errors (SEs)
This slide deck includes explanations of the two common statistical terms used in EVAAS reporting.
(pdf, 905kb)

Information on Administrator Evaluation Dashboards
Administrator Evaluation Dashboards provide principals and assistant principals with access to their ratings on Standards 1 - 8 of the NC Administrator Evaluation System, as well as their progress toward staus.
(pdf, 220kb)

Policy Brief on Mobile Student Populations
This policy brief describes how EVAAS handles highly mobile student populations when completing value-added modeling. The resource also describes the safeguards that are in place for teachers and schools.
(pdf, 222kb)