SEC Online 08-09 Highlights

1. SEC Online 08-09 Highlights • Content Analysis of International Standards & Assessments • SEC-ELL Project & Hybrid Instruments • What Makes Schools Work (WMSW) Study • New EAG funding proposal – SEC-SPED/ELL • Increased interest among research organizations • Continued SEA interest/support through SEC Collaborative

2. SEC Online Updates…. 08-09 Data Collection • SEC Surveys • 9547 surveys • Content Analysis • ~253 Documents Recent Updates / Additions • Field Management Interface • New Survey Interface & Data-base • New Results / Output Design • Web-based orientations & training

3. Future SEC Online Survey Trends

4. Coming Soon…. Administrator Side: • Meta-group creation tool • New Report Query Interface Teacher Side: • New User Interface – graphics-based • On Demand/In-Flow Tech. Asst. • Immediate Feedback • Informative Comparisons • Teacher Logs

5. Administrator Group Creation Tool Creating a new Group To create a new group, enter a short, descriptive Group name. There are two group types: • All Users,by selected School(s), District(s), Region(s), Workshop(s), and/or State(s). • Individually selected Users who have already registered with SEC. (Useful for including a users in multiple groups, without including an entire school or district.) You may also View and Edit existing groups that you have access to.

6. New Report Query Tool SELECT: WHERE: = AND OR: = AND OR: = AND OR: = FROM: BY:

7. The Standard Model SEC Intro/Overview Data Interpretation Teacher Orientation Survey Administration Time

8. The Survey Marathon ……..S u r v e y A d m I n I s t r a t I o n …….. Time

9. From one long survey….

10. School & Class Descr. Instructional Practice Instructional Content The Surveys Enacted Curriculum Homework Teacher Opinions of Teacher Characteristics Prof. Dev. Experiences Assessment Practices Special Populations Teacher Log Book Resources Content Analysis

11. School & Class Descr. Instructional Practice Instructional Content The Surveys Enacted Curriculum Homework Teacher Opinions of Teacher Characteristics Prof. Dev. Experiences Assessment Practices Special Populations Teacher Log Book Resources Content Analysis

12. School & Class Descr. Instructional Practice Instructional Content The Surveys Enacted Curriculum Homework Teacher Opinions of Teacher Characteristics Prof. Dev. Experiences Assessment Practices Special Populations Teacher Log Book Resources Content Analysis

13. Bringing It All Together Survey Results /Data Interpretation Teacher Orientation /Technical Assistance Survey Administration /Data Collection

14. School & Class Description • To get us started, we would like to ask you about how classes are organized at your school. • If you teach multiple courses within a given subject area, we’ll also ask about the number of different courses you teach. Departmentalized Instruction: teachers are assigned to specific subjects across multiple classes of students. Teachers may be assigned to multiple courses within a subject. Subject Area Specialist (non-deparmental): teachers specialize in a particular subject, but the school is not organized by subject area departments.

15. School & Class Description Departmentalized Instruction: teachers are assigned to specific subjects across multiple classes of students. Teachers may be assigned to multiple courses within a subject. Subject Area Specialist (non-deparmental): teachers specialize in a particular subject, but the school is not organized by subject area departments.

16. Next Section School & Class Description Results from teachers reporting on your subject and grade level: Nationally: n= 684 Your State: n=53

17. Exploring new content interface • More efficient topic reporting • Re-thinking reporting of performance expectations • Integrating content analysis training for teachers into the online system

19. Thinking differently about reporting content coverage Review the topics for each content area listed below, and check each content area containing at least one topic that you spent some time on in the target class.

21. Consider the performance expectation identified below. Thinking about the students in the target class, estimate how many are able to perform at the given performance expectation level for each content area listed. • Memorize/Recall • Reproduce sounds or words • Provide facts, terms, definitions, or conventions • Describe • Locate literal answers in a text • Identify relevant information Performance Expectation Students in the target class that can perform at this level of performance for this area of ELAR content.

22. Consider the performance expectation identified below. Thinking about the students in the target class, estimate how many are able to perform at the given performance expectation level for each content area listed. • Perform Procedures/Explain • Follow instructions • Give examples • Check consistency • Summarize • Identify purpose, main idea Performance Expectation Students in the target class that can perform at this level of performance for this area of ELAR content.

23. Uses of SEC data • Instructional improvement in schools • Needs assessment/ Program Evaluation • State Level Indicators – change over time • Alignment analyses • Explaining/modeling student achievement