MED 6730

 Problem of the Day: SEND +MORE MONEY

 In your Reflective Journal, describe how you make sense of all the data you receive about students.

 Key elements  Purposeful data collection and analysis  Designated resources and other supports such and time and an appropriate data management system  Strategies for communicating about the process of data collection and use as well as the findings

 Collect data with a clear purpose  Rather than viewing CRT data as a cache of information to be mined; approach the data with a specific question to be answered.  Analyze data to answer the question Granola Mine Activity

 Focus on teaching, learning, and assessment  Assessments are aligned with instruction and curriculum  Accountability systems clearly focus on instruction and inform decisions about curriculum and instructional practices ▪ What questions can you ask that could be answered by the data that inform instructional practice?  Efforts are made to reduce time consuming data collection procedures that don’t inform instructional decisions ▪ What data collection procedures could you have employed with the granola bar that would NOT have been worth the information you gleaned?

 Participative decision making  Leadership team plays an active role in collecting, organizing, analyzing, and discussing data  Opportunities are regularly scheduled for discussion of data  Process is used to assist faculty in generating questions, organizing, and displaying data to support decisions

 Data teams  Appropriate tools  Software  Time  Collaboration time What are you doing in your setting to evaluate and understand data? What could be done that makes data meetings productive? Not as productive?

 When and where do you talk about results?  What is done with the results?  How is follow-up reported?

 Gather in grade level groups, no more than 4 per group  First, discuss the questions you want to answer with the data  Identify what data, or what aspects of the data will enable you to answer the questions  Prepare the data in a form that answers the questions  Identify possible interventions that could assist in remediating student difficulties identified in the data.  Identify the research base supporting the intervention

 Google Scholar  Pioneer Online

Data analysis Data thoroughly analyzed for class level and student level trends. Data analyzed for class and student level trends Data analyzed for class or student level trends Data only partially analyzed Research base for Intervention Research base thoroughly described with references Research base described Research base partially described No research base cited Intervention Plan Intervention plan described including schedule, instruction, and assessments Intervention plan described with some schedule, instruction, and assessment details Intervention plan partially described Intervention plan poorly described