Cooking With Data

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Cooking With Data

• How to Use Statewide Assessment Data or
• Knowing Your Students in Order to Differentiate
  Instruction

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Goals and Objectives

• Statewide Assessment Data
• Comparing Data
• Within District
• Between Districts
• Data Details

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Statewide Assessments

• Test Results http//www.nj.gov/njded/assessment/
• NJ School Report Card
• http//www.nj.gov/njded/data/
• Assessments
• NJASK (ESPA)
• GEPA
• HSPA and SRA

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Obtaining Data Web Guidance

• Go to NJDOE Home Page (http//www.state.nj.us/educ
  ation/)
• In box at right bottom, click on doe data (top
  left of box)
• Click on NJ School Report Card
• Click on 2003 New Jersey School Report Card
  (issued March 2004)
• Click on View Report Cards
• Select a district
• Select Student Performance Indicators

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Performance Indicators (Overview)
Did this school Improve from 2001-2002 to 2002-200
3?
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Lets Look at Your School in Context
How is Your School Doing Compared with Other
Schools in Your District?
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Lets Look at Your School in Context

• See Just for the Kids (similar SES and LEP)
  (http//www.just4kids.org/jftk/index.cfm?stNew20
  Jerseylochome)
• Questions to ponder
• Is there a difference in both LAL and Math?
• Which schools should be contacted/visited?
• Who should be the lead person in your district?
• Who should they talk to in the other district?
• What questions should be asked of the comparable
  district?

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Just4theKids
Language Arts Literacy
Just for the Kids
The school
Comparable Schools
SES
LEP
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Just4theKids
Math
The school
Comparable Schools
SES
LEP
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Lets Look at Your School in Context
How does one districts schools (at a particular
grade band) compare with similar schools in
other districts?
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Data Details of Your School (Web)

• After you click on View Report Cards
• And select a district
• And select Student Performance Indicators
• For assessment result details of Language Arts
  Literacy and Mathematics, click on details on
  the left, under All Students, in each content
  area.

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Data Details of Your School
Click on details to obtain subgroup information
Did this school Improve from 2001-2002 to 2002-200
3?
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Data Details of Your School
Not enough students to count
Detail by Subgroup
No students to count
The females are doing twice as well as the males
in 4th grade!
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Data Details in Your School
ESPA LAL 2002
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What Do Results Look Like?
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Recording School Subgroup Data

• Looking at subgroup data (low scores)
• Prioritizing selecting those most in need
  (lowest scores)
• Looking for help in your own district (high
  scores)
• Considering additional supports (supplemental)

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Classroom Details Cluster Data
Language Arts Literacy scores. Which group needs
the most help?
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Classroom Details Cluster Data
How does one use classroom data to enable
learning?
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Questions?
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Reference About those Numbers!

• Proficiency Percentages how your school or
  district doing in comparison with others
• The Relationship of PP to P (200) to AP
• Means how well the content been learned a
  criterion-referenced number
• JPM - statewide
• District, school, subgroups and student