UChicago Impact | Scoring and Calculations

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How Scores Are Calculated

The 5Essentials reporting website uses three types of related but different scores: Measure Score Essenti...

Aug 09, 2017 10:06AM CDT
What is my school being compared to?

The 5Essentials results are norm-referenced, meaning a school's' survey results are compared to a specific nor...

Aug 09, 2017 10:11AM CDT
How Trends Are Calculated

Data from the 5Essentials survey may have been collected in previous years. We provide information on trends t...

Aug 15, 2017 10:57AM CDT
How to Interpret Response Rates

Response rates are an indicator of the proportion of students or teachers who participated, but they should be...

Sep 12, 2017 03:14PM CDT
Missing Data

Reports are only provided to schools with a 50 percent response rate or higher for the student and/or teacher ...

Sep 12, 2017 03:14PM CDT

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