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: 0.8-0.0
Depends: R (≥ 2.12), boot, colorspace, data.table (≥ 1.7.5), foreach, grid, gridBase, methods, plyr, randomNames (≥ 0.0-4), quantreg, splines, SGPdata
Suggests: doMC, doMPI, doSMP, doSNOW, doRedis, multicore, pdf2, sn, snow
Published: 2012-01-10
Author: Damian W. Betebenner, Adam Van Iwaarden and Ben Domingue with contributions from Jonathan Weeks, John Stewart, Jinnie Choi, Xin Wei, and Hi Shin Shim. With special thanks to State Department of Education analysts: Dr. Sarah Polasky (Arizona), Rebecca Gau (Arizona), Marie Huchton (Colorado), Ayaka Nukui (Idaho), Dr. Carissa Miller (Idaho), Dr. Wes Bruce (Indiana), Robert Hochsegang (Indiana), Xuewen Sheng (Kansas), Robert Lee (Massachusetts), Ken Thompson (Mississippi), Soo Yeon Cho (Missouri), Jeff Halsell (Nevada), Selcuk Ozdemir (Nevada), Deb Wiswell (New Hampshire), Katya Levitan-Reiner (New Haven Public Schools), Jessica Brown (Rhode Island), Ana Karantonis (Rhode Island), Dr. Deborah Jonas (Virginia), Juan D'Brot (West Virginia), Nate Hixson (West Virginia), Justin Meyer (Wisconsin), Joseph Newton (Wisconsin), Dr. Philip Olsen (Wisconsin), Nick Stroud (Wisconsin).
Maintainer: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner at nciea.org>
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 + file LICENSE
URL: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/, https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/sgp/
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_0.8-0.0.tar.gz
MacOS X binary: SGP_0.8-0.0.tgz
Windows binary: SGP_0.8-0.0.zip
Reference manual: SGP.pdf
News/ChangeLog:NEWS
Old sources: SGP archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: SGPdata