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Data Driven Decisions. Vicki Williams, Research and Planning Administrator Tracy Sanders, Student Services Manager. Office of Virtual Education. Instructional Leaders Quarterly Meeting March 12, 2013. Use of Data. Unprecedented demands for accountability, efficiency, and effectiveness
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Data Driven Decisions Vicki Williams, Research and Planning Administrator Tracy Sanders, Student Services Manager • Office of Virtual Education Instructional Leaders Quarterly Meeting March 12, 2013
Use of Data • Unprecedented demands for accountability, efficiency, and effectiveness • Increase in demands for greater transparency • Data mining to look inside for patterns for actionable items • Predictive techniques help to predict behavior and events which help to make decisions • Strong accountability demands for analytics for student success and productivity
Use of Data • Learning organizations simply cannot live outside the enterprise focus on measurable, tangible results driving IT, operations, finance and other mission critical applications. • Big effects often come from small, meaningful data driven decisions • Effective use of data for decision-making is directly related to trust, validity, and reliability.
Course Offerings • Full complement of courses on our web site
Credit Recovery • Through an expressed need throughout the state, in 2010, the SCVSP created credit recovery courses based on: • State standards • Best practices in successful credit recovery programs • Teaching experience since program inception • Teacher knowledge and pedagogy • Personalized Learning Designer in new Moodle 2.3 • The result has been a success in growth of credit recovery across the state; thus, increasing the graduation rate.
Credit Recovery Data Note: During the 2012 summer session, we completed approximately 1,000 credit recovery students.
Keyboarding Pilot Initiative • Through meetings and inquiries from schools and districts, there is an expressed need for keyboarding in grades 3-8 to prepare students for online state PASS testing. • SCVSP listened and sought ways to provide support. • As a result, the SCVSP will pilot keyboarding in grades 3-6 in 2013-2014. • We already have keyboarding for high school credit for grades 7-12.
Keyboarding Pilot Project Objectives • To provide instruction in alpha-numeric keyboarding to students in grades 3-6. • To provide navigation instruction and practice with a mouse through instruction in alpha-numeric keyboarding and open source resources. • To provide opportunity for students to compose paragraphs, short answers, or essay responses at the keyboard in a timely manner from writing prompts provided in the course.
Projections-Keyboarding Pilot Project • There are more than 220,000 students in grades 3-6 in South Carolina. • The Keyboarding Pilot Project will reach over 7,000 students during the first year. • Based on project outcomes, collected data, and evaluation, the SCVSP will move forward to prepare for state-wide deployment 2014-2015.
Contact • Vicki Williams • vwilliams@ed.sc.gov • 803-734-0061 • Tracy Sanders • tsanders@ed.sc.gov • 864-638-8723