SGP: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories

Functions to calculate student growth percentiles and percentile growth projections/trajectories for students using large scale, longitudinal assessment data. Functions use quantile regression to estimate the conditional density associated with each student's achievement history. Percentile growth projections/trajectories are calculated using the coefficient matrices derived from the quantile regression analyses and specify what percentile growth is required for students to reach future achievement targets.

Version: 1.1-0.0
Depends: R (≥ 2.15), SGPdata (≥ 7.0-0), methods
Imports: Cairo, colorspace, data.table (≥ 1.8.6), doParallel, foreach, grid, gridBase, iterators, plyr, quantreg, reshape2, RSQLite, sn, SparseM, splines
Suggests: randomNames (≥ 0.0-5), parallel
Published: 2013-04-12
Author: Damian W. Betebenner, Adam Van Iwaarden, Ben Domingue, and Yi Shang with contributions from Dr. Jonathan Weeks, Dr. Yi Shang, John Stewart, Dr. Jinnie Choi, Dr. Xin Wei, and Hi Shin Shim. With special thanks to State Department of Education analysts: Dr. Xiaoyuan Tan (Arizona), Dr. Carrie Giovannini (Arizona), Dr. Sarah Polasky (Arizona), Rebecca Gau (Arizona), Dr. Bill Bonk (Colorado), Marie Huchton (Colorado), Dr. Allison Timberlake (Georgia), Dr. Melissa Fincher (Georgia), Kiran Athota (Georgia), Travis Allen (Georgia), Glenn Hirata (Hawaii), Glenn Nochi (Hawaii), Joshua Lee (Hawaii), Ayaka Nukui (Idaho), Dr. Carissa Miller (Idaho), Dr. Wes Bruce (Indiana), Robert Hochsegang (Indiana), Tony Moss (Kansas), Dr. Xuewen Sheng (Kansas), Dr. Kathy Flanagan (Massachusetts), Robert Lee (Massachusetts), Joe DeCastra (Mississippi), Ken Thompson (Mississippi), Soo Yeon Cho (Missouri), Dr. Jeff Halsell (Nevada), Dr. Selcuk Ozdemir (Nevada), Roger Silva (Nevada), Deb Wiswell (New Hampshire), Katya Levitan-Reiner (New Haven Public Schools), Catherine McCaslin (New Haven Public Schools), Joshua Marland (New York), W Joshua Rew (Oregon), Jason Becker (Rhode Island), Dr. Jessica Brown (Rhode Island), Ana Karantonis (Rhode Island), Dr. Deborah Jonas (Virginia), Juan D'Brot (West Virginia), Dr. Deb Came (Washington), Krissy Johnson (Washington), Nate Hixson (West Virginia), Daniel Bush (Wisconsin), Justin Meyer (Wisconsin), Joseph Newton (Wisconsin), Dr. Philip Olsen (Wisconsin), Nick Stroud (Wisconsin), Brendan Houng (University of Melbourne, Australia).
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner at nciea.org>
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/SchoolView/SGP, http://schoolview.github.com/SGP/, http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: (PDF)LaTeX (http://www.latex-project.org/) with 'pdfpages' package for studentGrowthPlot option in visualizeSGP to bind together student growth plots into school catalogs.
Citation: SGP citation info
CRAN checks: SGP results

Downloads:

Package source: SGP_1.1-0.0.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: SGP_1.1-0.0.tgz
Windows binary: SGP_1.1-0.0.zip
Reference manual: SGP.pdf
News/ChangeLog:NEWS
Old sources: SGP archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: SGPdata