Package: SGP
Type: Package
Title: An R Package for the Calculation and Visualization of Student
Growth Percentiles & Percentile Growth Trajectories.
Version: 1.0-3.0
Date: 2013-1-21
Authors@R: c(person("Damian", "Betebenner",
email="dbetebenner@nciea.org", role=c("aut", "cre")),
person("Adam", "Van Iwaarden",
email="vaniwaarden@colorado.edu", role="aut"), person("Ben",
"Domingue", email="ben.domingue@gmail.com", role="aut"))
Author: Damian W. Betebenner <dbetebenner@nciea.org>, Adam Van Iwaarden
<vaniwaarden@colorado.edu> and Ben Domingue
<ben.domingue@gmail.com> 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. 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), 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@nciea.org>
Depends: R (>= 2.15), SGPdata (>= 3.0-0), methods
Suggests: randomNames (>= 0.0-5), parallel
Imports: Cairo, colorspace, data.table (>= 1.8.6), doParallel, foreach,
grid, gridBase, iterators, plyr, quantreg, reshape2, RSQLite,
sn, snow, SparseM, splines
Description: 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.
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.
URL: https://github.com/SchoolView/SGP,
http://schoolview.github.com/SGP/,
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SGP/
LazyData: Yes
LazyDataCompression: xz
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 US + file LICENSE
ByteCompile: TRUE
Packaged: 2013-01-21 11:43:54 UTC; damian
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-01-21 15:09:45