Exploring New Possibilities

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Exploring New Possibilities

• The OSCA and the WSCA
• Joint Conference
• March 3, 2007
• Vancouver, WA

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• Data Driven School Counseling
• A Practitioners Blueprint
• Mark Kuranz
• ASCA Past President

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• Participants will
• Understand how to use data
• Learn to access data
• Learn to analyze data
• Learn to interpret data
• Learn to present data

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Understand How to Use Data
Objective 1
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What Is Your Relationship with Education Data?

• Nonexistent?
• Reactive?
• Proactive?

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The Power of Data

• Provide objective snapshots of the students,
  school, community
• Surface evidence of access or equity issues
• Break old myths eliminate denial
• Create urgency/energy for change
• Provide direction data driven decisions
• Challenge existing behavior, funding patterns,
  programs, policies
• Use as an accountability tool

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How Not to Use Data

• To place blame
• To focus on the past
• To maintain the status quo

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Using Data to Spur Systemic Change

• School Counselors must be proficient in
• Accessing data
• Analyzing data
• Interpreting data
• Presenting data
• School Counselors must use data to
• Point out the system inequities
• Advocate for system change
• Create urgency for change

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Activity ASCA Workbook

• Review Program Audit of the Management System
  Use of Data
• Model page 136
• Workbook page 80

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Accountability Strategies using 5 questions

• What is your question?
• How will you answer the question?
• How will you gather the information or data?
• How will you make sense of the data?
• How will you use your findings?

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• Participants will
• Understand how to use data
• Learn to access data
• Learn to analyze data
• Learn to interpret data
• Learn to present data

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Objective 2 Learn to Access Data by asking
questions

• Student Demographics
• Attainment
• Achievement
• Student Behavior Choices
• Opportunity Gaps

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What is your question?

• Student Demographics what are the
  characteristics of our students?
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Socio-economic status (free/reduced lunch)
• Limited English Proficiency
• Family configuration
• Mobility
• Zip Code

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What is your question?

• Attainment How many make it to - and beyond key
  points in the system?
• Advance to next grade
• Transition from middle school to high school
• Graduation rate
• Type of high school diploma
• Matriculation to an institution of higher
  education
• Persistence beyond freshman year
• Earning a college diploma

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What is your question?

• Achievement What does achievement look like at
  different levels and with different groups of
  students?
• Overall Achievement
• Grade point average
• Standardized test scores
• Passing all subjects
• Periodic assessment
• Semester grades
• End of course tests
• Ongoing classroom assessment
• Class assignment grades
• Tests

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What is your question?

• Student Behavior Choices What are students
  doing?
• Attendance
• Discipline referrals
• Classroom behavior
• Homework completion
• Enrollment patterns
• Algebra in 9th grade
• Upper level math and science
• Honors, AP, college credit

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What is your question?

• Opportunity Gaps Are some students provided more
  opportunities than others?
• Access to rigorous curriculum
• Access to quality teachers
• School policies and climate
• Special Education Screening and
  Placement
• Participation in Support Services
• Tutoring, Mentoring

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What is your question?

• Are there schools who show that thing
• could be different?
• Find schools that look like yours that have
• Closed the opportunity gaps
• Closed the achievement gap

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Resources

• Education Trust web Site - www.edtrust.org
• American School Counselor Association
  www.schoolcounselor.org
• www.k12.state.dc.us
• No Excuses - Heritage Foundation
  www.noexcuses.org
• Schoolresults.org
• National Center for Educational Statistics
  nces.ed.gov

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Activity What is your question?

• Accessing data discussion
• Who? What? Where? How?
• What do you want to know or understand?
• What is to be evaluated and why?
• What are the educational issues that are keeping
  students from being successful?

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What is your question?

• Choose a question of importance - burning
  questions
• Begin with a manageable amount of data pick
  one tree, not the whole forest.
• Use a question format to state what you want to
  know.

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Data Sources
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• Participants will
• Understand how to use data
• Learn to access data
• Learn to analyze data
• Learn to interpret data
• Learn to present data

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Learn to analyze data by determining how you
will answer your question and how you will gather
data.
Objective 3
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How will you answer the question and gather data?

• What methods will you use?
• Who has the information?
• Does the information already exist?
• Do I need to develop a data
• collection instrument? (questionnaires,
• pre post tests)
• What procedures will you follow?
• Do I need permission to collect this
• information?
• Set a timeline

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What methods will you use?

• Focus groups
• Pre tests Post tests
• Surveys CounselingSurveys.org
• Questionnaires
• Student Test Data

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Focus Groups

• I learned homework is big in high school and the
  FMP helped you get it done.
• I liked the time in FMP because I felt safe, and
  kids werent allowed to pick on others.
• I liked the time to get to know my teacher,
  principal and counselor.
• I like the time to get extra help on class
  assignments.
• I thought the four plans, career stuff and
  college planning was important. It made me know
  high school is important.
• It was great that we talked about school events,
  how the school works, and who to go to for help.

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Pre Post Tests

• State the goal of the lesson
• Determine key concepts being taught.
• Brainstorm 5 -10 questions that test the
  students knowledge prior to and after the
  lesson.
• Use a variety of questions - multiple choice,
  true/false, fill-in-the-blank, rating scale,
• Grade the pre/post test and calculate percent
  change in knowledge.
• SUCCESS!!!!
• You have now created a pre and post test!!
• Google Pre Post Tests

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Questionnaire Tips

• Two-point scale
• I have lots of friends YES NO
• Three-point scales
• I have been bullied at school
• Disagree Unsure Agree
• Likert four-point scale

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Existing data
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Student DataNumber of Fs Earned