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How will we address them? Assessment School ImprovementPlan What are our challenges? Do our expenditures support our goals? Finance
The Problem • The number of data fields per student • 30 • The number of data fields per teacher • 25 • District with 2,000 students • 2,000 • Test scores for grades 3-8 • 6 • Number of questions per test • 50 • Total number of data points • 30 X 25 X 2000 X 6 X 50 = 450 million!
Technical Difficulty vs Actionability Teacher Hard -Individual Student Detail -History -My classroom roster -Strengths Weaknesses -Attendance Principal • -Individual Teacher • -Special groups of students • -Teacher comparison • Cohort analysis • -Grades Comparisons Curriculum -Program Analysis -School Comparisons -Grade Comparisons -Curriculum Analysis District -Program Analysis -School Comparisons -Statutory Reporting Easy More Actionable Less Actionable
10 Questions that take too many hours to get answers today(yet you have all the data!) • How many students experienced decrease in reading since last assessment and have problems with math as well? • Are minority LEP males doing better than minority LEP girls? • Which teacher experienced the highest/lowest scores on a State test? How did it compare with the last year results? • Who are my students – candidates for gifted programs? • How did my new class did on all tests last year (including State standards)? • How did low performing kids (based on this year test) performed one year and two years ago? • Which school or classroom scored the lowest on what subtest (State standard)? • Who is in the bottom 10 percent on each of the subtests (State standard) ? • How does our local assessment correlate with the State test results? • When are we going to miss NCLB goals if student performance remains the same?
10 Questions that take too many hours to get answers today(yet you have all the data!) • These simple yet very important questions remain unanswered • Or…. • Long hours are spent finding the answers at the expense of instruction. • Many administrators and teachers are so frustrated with the lack of answers that they stopped asking the questions!