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Helping schools make the relentless pursuit of excellence a matter of habit.

A Brief Guide to Building Systems for Data-Driven Instruction. Helping schools make the relentless pursuit of excellence a matter of habit. School Performance Builds Diagnostic Assessments That: Our schools give 5 or 6 times per year Are scored, analyzed and disaggregated within a week

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Helping schools make the relentless pursuit of excellence a matter of habit.

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  1. A Brief Guide to Building Systems for Data-Driven Instruction Helping schools make the relentless pursuit of excellence a matter of habit.

  2. School Performance Builds Diagnostic Assessments That: • Our schools give 5 or 6 times per year • Are scored, analyzed and disaggregated within a week • Follow a school’s scope and sequence • Align to the assessments in a school’s accountability matrix (state test + nationally normed test + other)

  3. Diagnostic Assessments: Language Arts

  4. Diagnostic Assessments: Math

  5. Six Keys to Effective Diagnostic Assessments • Spend Your Time Aligning • Test for Mastery and Retention • Frequent and Fast Data • Make the Data Useful • This is a Cultural Revolution • Harness the Power of Network

  6. Spend Your Time Aligning • Align to the format, level and weight of tests. • Align to the state test, plus (level three is not sufficient; signal your broader interest)

  7. A Gallery of NYS 4th Grade Math Problems

  8. Build or Buy? Two reasons to Build* Alignment “Aligned to your standards”… and what else? “Aligned to your standards”… but not your test. Buying is Outsourcing Outsource technical competencies that are not central to your mission. Keep in-house what’s central to your work so you can develop your own knowledge about it. Do you really want to outsource deep knowledge about the skills and content your students need to master?

  9. Six Keys to Effective Diagnostic Assessments • Spend Your Time Aligning • Test for Mastery and Retention • Frequent and Fast Data • Make the Data Useful • This is a Cultural Revolution • Harness the Power of Network

  10. Six Keys to Effective Diagnostic Assessments • Spend Your Time Aligning • Test for Mastery and Retention • Frequent and Fast Data • Make the Data Useful • This is a Cultural Revolution • Harness the Power of Network

  11. Six Keys to Effective Diagnostic Assessments • Spend Your Time Aligning • Test for Mastery and Retention • Frequent and Fast Data • Make the Data Useful • This is a Cultural Revolution • Harness the Power of Network

  12. Make the Data Useful

  13. Make the Data Useful Ready for a challenge Needs a day of tutoring Needs a tutor every day

  14. Make the Data Useful Re-Teach! Replicate!

  15. Make the Data Useful 63% of kids who got #44 wrong chose A. That’s an information gold mine!

  16. Make the Data Useful

  17. Make the Data Useful

  18. Six Keys to Effective Diagnostic Assessments • Spend Your Time Aligning • Test for Mastery and Retention • Frequent and Fast Data • Make the Data Useful • This is a Cultural Revolution • Harness the Power of Network

  19. This is a Cultural Revolution • It’s a cultural revolution not a technological one. • You can do almost everything you need to do with pencil and paper. • “You’ve parked an F-15 in the parking lot, but I just want to get downtown. I want the bus back!”

  20. Your Assessments Can Be Professional Quality … Or Not You can get amazing value out of a simple tool. Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Start now.

  21. Six Keys to Effective Diagnostic Assessments • Spend Your Time Aligning • Test for Mastery and Retention • Frequent and Fast Data • Make the Data Useful • This is a Cultural Revolution • Harness the Power of Network

  22. Does It Work?

  23. Does it Work?

  24. Does it Work? Darryl Williams’ 2004-2005 Mean Percentile Gains:

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