The School Principal – Viewing Performance of New Students Entering Your Grade and Classroom

The opportunity to view performance of your incoming students before you meet them is an opportunity for teachers to acquire insight and calculate challenges, particularly for those students who took State exams in ELA, math, and science in the spring.

Power of DataMate

This opportunity is available to administrators and teachers who have access to EdVistas’ DataMate Assessment and Reporting System. This incredible tool not only contains a myriad of student data and reports, but also has the power to redistribute students from the previous school year into grade and classroom assignments in the new school year, along with any and all data and information related to them.

To Be Pre-Warned Is to Be Pre-Armed

The quote from Machiavelli is apt in light of the fact that good and timely data can assist teachers from the get-go. A leg up in identifying students’ needs and power is critical. Imagine the importance of getting to know your new students at the beginning of a new year just to see where they did well and where challenges exist. Here are a few reports that capture the following:

• overall individual student performance reports
• performance by test item with distractor percentages
• performance by standard or cluster
• performance by test type: objective and performance items

Key Challenges Carried Over from Previous Year

Access to EdVistas Scorer Feedback for 2025 NYS Testing is available to all administrators and teachers, regardless of access to DataMate, which provides general challenges that scorers identified with test item by item for ELA and math. A key finding from the previous year rested squarely on student problems with computer-based testing (CBT). Frankly speaking, in responding to short and extended test items, few students understood how to capture key bits of supportive textual information to copy and paste. Many grabbed entire paragraphs, if not an entire text to support a response.

Access and application of student performance data and information may make all the difference when teachers work individually or in teams with a clear vision from the beginning of a new school year. Growth is the critical factor when monitoring student performance at any point in a school year for students, teachers, and parents.