How are Snapshot responses scored?
The Snapshot measures a student’s preferences, attitudes, and beliefs about their character. It does not measure their behavior. Finally, The Snapshot is designed solely to measure skills at a very specific moment in time—it is not meant to be a determinant of a child’s ability to develop a certain skill or skills.
The Snapshot results will show a student's results in each of the seven character skills as:
- Emerging - Compared to their peer group, the student's results fell below the 25th percentile. This doesn't mean that the student lacks the skill, but rather when choosing statements "most like themselves" they indicated a preference toward other skills.
- Developing - The students' results fell at or above the 25th percentile and below the 75th percentile.
- Demonstrating - The student's results fell at or above the 75th percentile.
These category scores are based on a nationally representative sample of students who took the Snapshot. We call this our "norm group." We have two norm groups, one for grades 5–7 (Middle Level) and one for grades 8–11 (Upper Level). If your students fall in grades 5-7, their score report is based on their skills at the current moment as compared to the Middle Level norm group. This means that anyone in grades 5, 6, or 7 is referenced against this group. Similarly, anyone in grades 8, 9, 10, and 11 is referenced against our Upper Level norm group.
Beyond a student's responses to the Snapshot, there would be no difference in the scores they receive if they report they are within one of the Middle Level (or Upper Level) norm group grades (e.g., if a sixth grader and seventh grader answer exactly the same on the Snapshot, they would receive the same category scores). There would be a difference if the wrong grade was selected and it placed the student in a different level (e.g., if seventh grade was selected at registration instead of eighth, this could change the student's category scores). If this occurs, please contact info@enrollment.org so we can correct it.
