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: 1.2-0.0
Depends: R (≥ 2.13)
Imports: Cairo, colorspace, data.table (≥ 1.8.10), doParallel, foreach, grid, gridBase, iterators, jsonlite, methods, plyr, quantreg, reshape2, RSQLite, sn (≥ 1.0-0), splines
Suggests: randomNames (≥ 0.0-5), parallel, SGPdata (≥ 8.0-0)
Published: 2014-01-28
Author: Damian W. Betebenner [aut, cre], Adam Van Iwaarden [aut], Ben Domingue [aut], Yi Shang [aut], Jonathan Weeks [ctb], John Stewart [ctb], Jinnie Choi [ctb], Xin Wei [ctb], Hi Shin Shim [ctb], Xiaoyuan Tan [ctb] (Arizona Department of Education), Carrie Giovannini [ctb] (Arizona Department of Education), Sarah Polasky [ctb] (Arizona State University), Rebecca Gau [ctb] (Arizona Charter School Association), Jeffrey Dean [ctb] (University of Arkansas), William Bonk [ctb] (Colorado Department of Education), Marie Huchton [ctb] (Colorado Department of Education), Allison Timberlake [ctb] (Georgia Department of Education), Qi Qin [ctb] (Georgia Department of Education), Melissa Fincher [ctb] (Georgia Department of Education), Kiran Athota [ctb] (Georgia Department of Education), Travis Allen [ctb] (Georgia Department of Education), Glenn Hirata [ctb] (Hawaii Department of Education), Glenn Nochi [ctb] (Hawaii Department of Education), Joshua Lee [ctb] (Hawaii Department of Education), Ayaka Nukui [ctb] (Idaho Department of Education), Carissa Miller [ctb] (Idaho Department of Education), Wes Bruce [ctb] (Indiana Department of Education), Robert Hochsegang [ctb] (Indiana Department of Education), Tony Moss [ctb] (Kansas State Department of Education), Xuewen Sheng [ctb] (Kansas State Department of Education), Kathy Flanagan [ctb] (Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education), Robert Lee [ctb] (Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education), Joe DeCastra [ctb] (Mississippi Department of Education), Ken Thompson [ctb] (Mississippi Department of Education), Soo Yeon Cho [ctb] (Missouri Department of Education), Jeff Halsell [ctb] (Clark County School District, Nevada), Selcuk Ozdemir [ctb] (Washoe County School District, Nevada), Roger Silva [ctb] (Nevada Department of Education), Deb Wiswell [ctb] (New Hampshire Department of Education), Katya Levitan-Reiner [ctb] (New Haven Public Schools), Catherine McCaslin [ctb] (New Haven Public Schools), Joshua Marland [ctb] (New York Education Department), W Joshua Rew [ctb] (Oregon Department of Education), Jason Becker [ctb] (Rhode Island Department of Education), Jessica Bailey [ctb] (Rhode Island Department of Education), Ana Karantonis [ctb] (Rhode Island Department of Education), Deborah Jonas [ctb] (Virginia Department of Education), Juan D'Brot [ctb] (West Virginia Department of Education), Nate Hixson [ctb] (West Virginia Department of Education), Deb Came [ctb] (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction), Krissy Johnson [ctb] (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction), Daniel Bush [ctb] (Wisconsin Department of Education), Justin Meyer [ctb] (Wisconsin Department of Education), Joseph Newton [ctb] (Wisconsin Department of Education), Nick Stroud [ctb] (Wisconsin Department of Education), Phyllis Clay [ctb] (Albuquerque Public Schools), Peter Kinyua [ctb] (Albuquerque Public Schools), Brendan Houng [ctb] (University of Melbourne, Australia, NAPLAN), Leslie Rosale [ctb] (Ministry of Education, Guatemala), Nathan Wall [ctb] (eMetric working with Nevada Department of Education and South Dakota Department of Education)
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner at nciea.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/CenterForAssessment/SGP/issues
License: GPL-2
URL: https://github.com/CenterForAssessment/SGP, http://centerforassessment.github.io/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
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: SGP results

Downloads:

Reference manual: SGP.pdf
Package source: SGP_1.2-0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: SGP_1.2-0.0.zip, r-release: SGP_1.2-0.0.zip, r-oldrel: SGP_1.2-0.0.zip
OS X Snow Leopard binaries: r-release: SGP_1.2-0.0.tgz, r-oldrel: SGP_1.2-0.0.tgz
OS X Mavericks binaries: r-release: SGP_1.2-0.0.tgz
Old sources: SGP archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: SGPdata