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Why are educators so fired up about data?

Why are educators so fired up about data?. Superintendents ask. How do we know if teachers are teaching our curriculum? How do we maximize the value of dollars spent for assessment and data management? Are all of our students achieving at acceptable levels?.

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Why are educators so fired up about data?

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  1. Why are educators so fired up about data? Superintendents ask • How do we know if teachers are teaching our curriculum? • How do we maximize the value of dollars spent for assessment and data management? • Are all of our students achieving at acceptable levels?

  2. Professional learning communities ask • What is it we want our students to • know and be able to do? • How will we know when they have learned it? • What will we do when students are not learning?

  3. Why are educators so fired up about “data?” Improving Student Achievement Is The Reason.

  4. Creating some common languageabout data in schools What are the major systems? How are they related? What have districts done? Where do we want to go?

  5. 4 Major Data & Technology Systems in Schools. Assessment Systems Student Information Systems Data analysis systems Data warehouse

  6. Data analysis process From Matt Stein. Making Sense of the Data: Overview of the K-12 Data Management and Analysis Market, Eduventures, Inc., Nov. 2003.

  7. What is a Student Information System? • Registers new students • Demographic information (address, emergency contacts, etc.) • Attendance • Scheduling of classes • Achievement data • Examples include: CIMS, Skyward, Chancery, Pentamation, Zangle, etc. It is not keeping track of what is going on in classrooms.

  8. What is an Assessment System? Tool for gathering achievement information • Some deliver item banks • Concert by NCS Pearson • MAP by the Northwest Evaluation Association • Some deliver intact tests • Assess2Learn by Riverside • EdVision by Scantron, • Homeroom by Princeton Review • Most are web-based It is assessing what is going on in classrooms.

  9. Administrators, public, legislators Evaluation Accountability Long range planning Teachers, parents, students Diagnosis Prescription Placement Short range planning Very specific ach info Who needs what data? A single assessment cannot meet all needs. e.g., Who understood this concept? Why is Becky having trouble reading? e.g., What percent met standards on 4th grade MEAP math? Are students doing better this year than they were doing last year? Large Grain Size Fine Grain Size

  10. What is a “data analysis system?” • The vendor maps your data to their system • Predefines the kinds of analyses staff will do • Allows user to create answers to questions • Lots of nice graphs, lists, etc. Examples: AMS by TurnLeaf, SAMS by Executive Intelligence, QSP, STARS by SchoolCity, Pinnacle by Excelsior. File Maker lets districts invent their own system. D’Tool and TestWiz are “sort of” data analysis systems.

  11. What is a data warehouse? • It brings all the various sets of data together • Financial data • Personnel data • Building infrastructure data • Student demographic information • Student program information • Student achievement information • Example: Center for Educational Performance and Information’s Michigan Education Information System. (80% of work is data cleansing.)

  12. What’s in CEPI’s data warehouse? School Code Master School Infrastructure Database (SID) Single Record Student Database (SRSD) Financial Information Database (FID) Registry of Educational Personnel (REP) Student Test and Achievement Repository (STAR) MEAP ACT SAT

  13. Why some things aren’t in a warehouse…. Easier to ignore hoarding Not sure what it is or how to measure it overlooked stray

  14. Data management & analysis system framework From Matt Stein. Making Sense of the Data: Overview of the K-12 Data Management and Analysis Market, Eduventures, Inc., Nov. 2003.

  15. How are these things related? You can have a Student Info System and nothing else. You can have an assessment system and nothing else (but most assessment systems “depend” on data from the SIS). There is no point in having a data analysis system unless you have data. If you have a SIS & an assessment system, you’ll probably want a data analysis system. The State of Michigan is creating a data warehouse. A data analysis system could also use data from the warehouse. A data analysis system can bring the pieces together without a warehouse.

  16. Where are we now? Every district has a “Student Information System.” A few districts (ISD’s/RESA’s) have purchased an “Assessment System” Some districts have created their own “data analysis systems” using File Maker Pro. Some are using one of the major “data analysis systems” on the market. At least one ISD is creating another “data warehouse,” and all districts must use the MEIS system that CEPI is creating.

  17. Things to think about whilelistening to vendor pitches What questions are we trying to answer? i.e., Who needs what data when? Can the assessments we are using hope to answer those questions? How do we know our assessments are quality measures? What happens to the comparability of our measures as we continue to keep them current? How decontextualized can assessments be that support instruction? Is this really about supporting instruction?

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