Selecting Tests to Include on Reports and Using Teachers' Test Selections

By default, Reporting displays data for all the assessments and classes (rosters) you have access to. You can set your preferences to hide some of those tests (if you're a teacher) or classes (if you're a school- or district-level user). The preferences you set persist across sessions.

Selecting Tests to Include on Reports (for Teachers)

Teachers can set their preferences to display some tests and not others. For example, if you are a math teacher and don't want to see your students' English scores, you can update your test preferences to include only math assessments. By default, the data for English assessments appear in your reports.

When you use this setting, you can help school- and district-level users focus their reports on the classes (rosters) that are most relevant to the tests they're looking at, as described in the next section.

To select which tests to display:

1.From the My Settings drop-down list in the banner, select Select Tests to Include on Reports. The Select Tests to Include on Reports window appears. This window groups tests hierarchically by subject and grade. If a new test or category has been added to your reports since the last time you updated your test preferences, a NEW! label appears next to it in the window.

2.Clear the checkboxes beside the categories or individual tests you wish to exclude.

3.Click Save & Close.

Using Teachers' Test Selections (for School- and District-Level Users)

School- and district-level users can update their preferences to specify which classes (rosters) appear in their assessment reports. The following options are available:

• All Rosters: If you select this option, data for all classes appear in your assessment reports.
• Teacher Preferences: If you select this option, classes belonging to teachers who excluded a given assessment from their own reports will not appear in the Performance by Roster table of the School Performance on Test report for that assessment.

For example, suppose a math class belongs to a math teacher who has excluded English tests from their reports. By using teacher preferences, you can view a set of English test results without that math teacher's class. All students who took the English test will still appear in the report, whether or not they belong to the math teacher's class, but the Performance by Roster table will not list them as belonging to that math teacher's class. By hiding classes that are not relevant to the test, and by preventing a student from appearing again in the same report, this setting makes reports easier to read.

To select which classes (rosters) to display:

1.From the My Settings drop-down list in the banner, select Use Teachers' Test Selections. The Use Teachers' Test Selections window appears.

2.Mark the radio button for the option you prefer.

3.Click Save & Close.