Eastbound and Down, Loaded Up and Truckin… We’re Gonna Do What They Say Can’t Be Done— Using Data Presented by Nick Bernice & Bryan Respass LHS Little Theater – October 11, 2010 Data

This Morning… Study current student data and trends Define common data terms Use data to identify student performance Use new understandings to influence instruction Data

Perspective Critical directional shift Critical directional shift Why me? Why now? Why me? Why now? New challenges New challenges Appropriate responses Appropriate responses

What is a Lexile Score? A Lexile is a standard unit for measuring the comprehensibility of text A Lexile is a standard unit for measuring the comprehensibility of text – Semantics (meaning) – Syntax (sentence structure)

Determining Text Difficulty Semantic Difficulty Semantic Difficulty  the frequency of the words in a corpus of written text Syntactic Complexity Syntactic Complexity  the number of words per sentence  longer sentences are more complex and require more short-term memory to process

Lexiles… Carefully match readers to text Carefully match readers to text A tool for differentiation A tool for differentiation Allow teachers to prepare students to work with more difficult texts Allow teachers to prepare students to work with more difficult texts

Determining a Student’s Lexile Range Independent Reading Range of difficulty should be Lexiles above to 100 Lexiles below Independent Reading Range of difficulty should be Lexiles above to 100 Lexiles below Instructional Reading Range of difficulty should be to 150 Lexiles above Instructional Reading Range of difficulty should be to 150 Lexiles above Frustrational Reading Anything over 200 Lexile points Frustrational Reading Anything over 200 Lexile points

Common Lexile Scores CD-DVD Player Instructions (1080L) Microsoft Window User Manual (1150L) GM Protection Plan (1150L) Installing Your Child Safety Seat (1170L) Federal Tax Form W-4 (1260L) Application for a student loan (1270L) Medical Insurance Benefits Pkg. (1280L) SAT (1330L) GED (1060L) USA Today (1200L) Chicago Tribune (1310L) Wall Street Journal (1320L) The Washington Post (1350L) New York Times (1380L) Source: Dr. William R. Daggett

Lexile Histograms What does typical data look like?

Lexile Histograms 5 th : 900

Lexile Histograms 5 th : 900, 6 th : 1000

Lexile Histograms 5 th : 900, 6 th : 1000, 7 th : 1100

Lexile Histograms 5 th : 900, 6 th : 1000, 7 th : 1100, 8 th : 1050

Lexile Histograms 5 th : 900, 6 th : 1000, 7 th : 1100, 8 th : 1050, 9 th : 1075

Lexile Histograms 5 th : 900, 6 th : 1000, 7 th : 1100, 8 th : 1050, 9 th : 1075, 10 th : 1150

Lexile Roster (yellow) Roster of your current student’s Lexile scores (on yellow paper – Left side)

Same analysis for all 3 histogram pages Lexile Math RIT Reading RIT Draw your own lines. More later in your groups

Does MAP Matter? You have scatter plot data for: – MAP Lexile v. NJASK LAL – MAP Reading v. NJASK LAL – MAP Math v. NJASK Math – MAP Math v. Algebra I EOC – MAP Reading v. Biology EOC Are MAP scores meaningful outside NWEA MAP?

Scatter Plots

NJ ASK (Right Side) Green class rosters (reflective) Blue current class rosters In Language Arts Literacy, there are two distinct content clusters; Writing & Reading – Reading passages can be classified as either Working with Text or Analyzing Text. – Writing tasks can be Expository/Explanatory, Speculative, or Persuasive, depending on the grade.

NJ ASK In Mathematics, there are four distinct content clusters; the total points possible in each of these sums to the total number of points on the test: - Number and numerical operations - Geometry and measurement - Patterns and algebra - Data analysis, probability and discrete mathematics

MAP RIT Scores There are two reports on your current students in the folders: Yellow – RIT Scores (Yellow) for Reading & Writing – RIT Scores with categorical breakdowns (Purple) How do I use MAP data to help my students?

What is our goal with all this? Move every student forward Give students who are outliers appropriate material Leave no student behind Keep Leonia Students on the very edge of the academic blade

Remainder of the morning Department Discussions based on folder contents Mini-School activity – Small Schools – Case studies – Findings on big paper HS – today in hall MS – tomorrow in Faculty Lounge Data