Grade Level Achievement (GLA) Report (Obsolete)

Introduction

This report includes student progress in grade levels one through nine. The report results are a summary of a student's grade level achievement based on the current curriculum for a given subject.

All schools in the district must use one unique standards store code. All charter schools and all schools with elementary and/or junior high grades must report French and English Language Arts and Math GLA for grade levels first through ninth.

Use the English Language Arts (ELA) and Individualized Program Planning (IPP) Audit reports to validate and correct data prior to running the GLA Extract.

Grade Level Achievement Setup

See Provincial Reporting Setup for GLA setup of the following items:

New Conversion Scales
Edit Conversion Scales
New Standard by Example
New Final Grade
Final Grade Entry Option
Set Current Grade
Enter Scale Achieved Grade
Student Individual Program Planning Data

Report Input

For help with navigation and running the report, see How to Find and Generate a Report.

Field

Description

Use

If run at the district level, choose one of the following from the pop-up menu:

Default – District Wide. Includes all records on the PowerSchool server that meet selection criteria.
Current School Only – Includes all records associated with the current school that meet the selection criteria.
District Wide – Includes all records on the PowerSchool server that meet the selection criteria.

If run at the school level, the report includes all records associated with the current school that meet the selection criteria. To change the current school, click School at the top of the page and choose the appropriate school from the list.

Store Code

Choose the store code from the pop-up menu.

Note: Select the unique standards store code used by all schools in the district.

Report Output

Each of the fields displayed in the output of the report are described below. See Understanding the Report Output Tablefor a definition of each column in the table.

Field #	Data Element	[Table]FieldName	Max Length
1	School Year	Calculated based on term ID for current school year Example: School year 2009-2010 reports as 2010	4
2	School Code	[Schools]School_Number [Schools]Alternate_School_Number - if populated	4
3	Student Legal Surname	[StudentCoreFields]PSCore_Legal_Last_Name	25
4	Student Legal Given Name	[StudentCoreFields]PSCore_Legal_First_Name [StudentCoreFields]PSCore_Legal_Middle_Name	25
5	Alberta Student Number	[Students]State_StudentNumber	9
6	Enrolled Grade	[Students]Grade_Level	2
7	Grade Level of Achievement - Mathematics	Student’s standards based grade	2
8	Grade Level of Achievement - Science	Student’s standards based grade	2
9	Grade Level of Achievement - Social Studies	Student’s standards based grade	2
10	Grade Level of Achievement - English Language Arts	Student’s standards based grade	2
11	Grade Level of Achievement - French Language Arts	Student’s standards based grade	2
12	Grade in which GLA Introduced	[S_AB_STU_X]ELAGrade	2
13	IPP Met - Foundational Skills	S_AB_STU_X]FoundSkill	2
14	IPP Met - Academic Readiness Skills	[S_AB_STU_X]AcademicSill	2
15	IPP Met - Life Skills	[S_AB_STU_X]LifeSkill	2