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A New Vision for Education Data Use. Vision and Context. Vision for Data Quality, Use and Coordination Across the New Jersey Current data initiatives in the Department Data Coordination Group and Task Forces to drive key Department data initiatives
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Vision and Context Vision for Data Quality, Use and Coordination Across the New Jersey • Current data initiatives in the Department • Data Coordination Group and Task Forces to drive key Department data initiatives • Actions underway to streamline collections, coordinate across department, and speed up processes • Paradigm shift in the capacity and functionality of NJ SMART • Since the beginning, NJ SMART was more commonly viewed by LEAs as the destination for submitting state and federal report data • New data collections and emerging functionality improve NJ SMART as a critical source for applying data in shaping strategy and policy for LEAs and NJ DOE • Professional development needed for DOE and LEA leaders to build capacity • Calculating and reporting student growth percentiles injects an additional indicator into NJ’s discussion and efforts to improve student performance
Goals – Education Data Use in New Jersey • All DOE program areas use data from NJ SMART to inform policy decisions. • School and district accountability is based on student growth in addition to proficiency snapshots from year to year. • Principals are able to identify teachers, programs and interventions that are having the greatest success with student learning. • Students are tracked from pre-school to college and students are flagged for intervention at the earliest indication that they are off-track. • Principals are asking researchable questions, digging into data, and building action plans for improving instruction. • Parents and other public stakeholders are able to answer their questions about the performance of schools. • Districts do not have to submit duplicative data because all data are shared across DOE program areas.
Satisfying NJ’s SFSF Data System Assurances • In 2009, New Jersey elected to receive $1.33 Billion in State Fiscal Stabilization Funds. As a condition of receiving these funds, New Jersey had to commit to improving results for all students and advancing education reform by: • Increasing teacher effectiveness and equitable distribution of highly qualified teachers. • Adopting rigorous college- and career-ready standards and assessments. • Targeted, intensive support and effective interventions to turn around struggling schools. • Establishing data systems and using that data for improvement at the district level. • The current phase of NJ SMART’s development will satisfy each of the data systems outlined in NJ’s SFSF application. • The NJ DOE is leveraging this opportunity to eliminate redundancies, streamline internal data collections, and promote easy and secure access to education data.
Why Student Growth Percentile (SGP)? Learning and Teaching: The Concept of Status and Growth = Performance • College and career readiness as central goal • The central goal of New Jersey’s public education system is to teach the skills and knowledge necessary to ensure college and career readiness. • Status and growth as indicators of success • Though appropriate for making judgments about the achievement level of students at a school for a given year, status measures like point-in-time standardized test scores are inappropriate for judgments about educational effectiveness. • Learning is demonstrated by growth in student achievement from one point in time to another.
Adding a New Dimension to Performance Female Male Advanced Proficient Partially Proficient
Using Student Growth Percentile (SGP) SGP expands the conversation from “who’s proficient and who’s not?” to “are we creating an educational environment where all students are learning?” • Using individual SGPs to identify students in need of intervention • Which of these students are you concerned about? • Which of these students are successful? • Using median SGPs to identify successful practices at the school or classroom level • Which schools/classrooms are having the most success with their students?
Based on what you learned from video, do you feel you had enough information to have these conversations at your school? What remaining questions to you have about growth?
Where NJPSA Can Help Inform the SGP Conversation… • Provide insight on the delivery, visualization and use of student growth data • Provide a conduit for educational opportunities related to data collections, data use and professional development • Serve as DOE and PCG’s partner in facilitating conversations among key education stakeholder groups , specifically regarding student growth percentiles, professional development opportunities, post secondary data, and public/community access portal
Tools Training & Assistance • NJ SMART Data Warehouse • Materials from instructor-led course, Using Student Growth Percentiles • Using Student Growth Percentiles Course • 11/14 @ NJPSA • NJ SMART Help Desk • 1.800.254.0295 • njsmart@pcgus.com • Help tab at www.njsmart.org Available Resources
