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Learn how to access and navigate the online referral system, locate data for student and school assessments, and use the data effectively. Discover key district trends from the previous academic year.
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Online Referrals for Special Education Evaluation Referral System AND Data System 2011 Administrators’ Academy August 24 and 25, 2011 Gail Ghere, PhD Special Education Department & Office of Leadership Development
Learning Goals—To be able to: • Access and navigate the data on the referral system • Locate the data to answer student, team and school questions • Use the data for and with school processes • Recognize the key district trends from 2010-2011
Think back… • Last year, who used the online referral system to look at student or school level data? For what purpose? • Last year, what special education referral data did you wish you could have accessed?
What reports can be generated through the Online Referral System?
Who has rights to the data? • Student level – • Based on Campus rights • Caveat—if someone is added to the referral team • School level- • Principals, APs, & Admin Interns should have school-level rights • Should see links to generate school reports
Access the site: • Step 1: www.connect.spps.org • Step 2: Custom Websites (left side) • Step 3: Scroll to Referral for Special Education Evaluation • Step 4: Please bookmark the site
QUICK REPORT Open SY 2012 Incomplete referrals currently open on the system What do you see? What are the uses for this report?
QUICK REPORT Open SY 2012 Incomplete referrals currently open on the system What do you see? What are the uses for this report? SCHOOL REPORT Open SY 2011 Both complete and incomplete referrals
Identify school trends & concerns • Copy and paste school report into Excel • Use sort and pivot table features to look for: • What is working? • What is not working?
Open a referral on a student who has one in progress • Data: Curriculum based measures • Data: Standardized testing— • System automatically pulls MCA strand data, MCA-M, MTAS and MAP over the in last two years (must be on our system) • How is the data presented • When and why to access this data? • Data: Intervention data (baseline, intervention, results)
2010-2011 = 0.4% = 5.1% = 1.3% =7.1%
Closing • What more do you want to know about? • What does your staff need to know about the system? • How will you use these data this year?