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Enhancing Data Literacy: Using and Unpacking L4GA Baseline data. Gary E. Bingham, Kevin Fortner, Rihana Mason Georgia State University. Agenda. Data Literacy Principles Discuss Survey Initial Findings Discuss L4GA Initial Findings Recommendations. Surrounded by Information.
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Enhancing Data Literacy: Using and Unpacking L4GA Baseline data Gary E. Bingham, Kevin Fortner, Rihana Mason Georgia State University
Agenda • Data Literacy Principles • Discuss Survey Initial Findings • Discuss L4GA Initial Findings • Recommendations
What is Data Literacy? • The nature of the specific knowledge and skills teachers need to use data effectively • Gummer & Mandinach, 2015
What do Effective Teachers Do? • Identify a student learning issues • Using data • Verify the causes of the learning challenges • Generate possible solutions or instructional practices that target the learning challenge • Implement instructional strategies • Monitor instructional outcomes • (Repeat) Love, Stiles, Mundry, & DiRanna, 2008
Data Literacy • Data Location • Finding relevant information • Who houses data? Where is it located? Access? • Data Comprehension • What do the data signify? • Data Interpretation • Figuring out what the data mean • Instructional Decision Making • Selecting an instructional approach that addresses the situation or learning need identified • Question Posing • Framing instructionally relevant questions of data • Querying Data • What conditions best support student performance?
DATA SURVEY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK(adapted from IES REL Appalachia) General Attitudes Perceptions of Data Quality Wayman, Wilkerson, Cho, Mandinach, & Supovitz, 2016
Four Groups N = 757 Respondents
DATA SURVEY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK(adapted from IES REL Appalachia) General Attitudes Perceptions of Data Quality Wayman, Wilkerson, Cho, Mandinach, & Supovitz, 2016
DIBELS-NWF Across Timepoints by Grade Nonsense Word Alphabetic Principle
DIBELS- NEXT ORAL READING FLUENCY
DIBELS-DORF Across Three Time Points by Grade Oral Reading Fluency
HMH-RI • Lexile Framework for reading provides a common scale for measuring text difficulty and student reading ability Vocabulary Comprehension
Reading Inventory Primary Grades
Reading RI Reading Inventory Middle School
Reading Inventory High School
Moving Forward • Uploading data in timely manner • Quicker analysis • Helps us spot challenges • Communicate with GA DOE when changes take place • Vendor change? Challenging experiences? • Collaboration and Communication is Key • Various stakeholders and purposes • Communicate with us around the templates • How are they working? Feedback? • Available for consultations at 3pm • Be a Resource to others • Prior vs. New LEAs to L4