Using the BFK  Link™ Solution to Generate Teacher-Level Value-Added Reports for SPED and ELL Students July 2010

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. About Battelle for Kids  National, service- and solution-based, not-for-profit organization  Started in 2001 with funding from Battelle Memorial Institute  Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio  Mission-driven team of education, technology, communications and business professionals

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential.  The Right Measures  Improving data quality and reporting  The Right Practices  Providing professional development (consulting, tools and online learning)  Using value-added analysis, formative assessment and the BFK  Focus™ process  The Right People  Identifying and sharing the practices of highly effective teachers  Developing strategic compensation and evaluation models  Communicating and managing change What We Do

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential.  Yes, within reason  No snap judgments, look across time - Repeatability reaches.8 with a three-year average  Balance the value-added data with other measures - Everything that counts can’t be counted  Beware of unclean data… education data is notoriously noisy, we are now trying to use educational data systems for purposes for which they were not designed  Be a smart consumer of data…sample size matters  Simple models vs. complex models… you make tradeoffs and to a great degree it depends on the end use of the data - “Simpler is better unless it is wrong” Is Value-Added Data the Way To Go?

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. BFKLink™ □Hundreds of thousands of assignments, and over one million students, have been successfully linked. □Thousands of teacher-level value-added reports have been generated for educators. □99.37% successful linkage rate—connecting tests to students, teachers, teams and buildings—that will allow more value-added reports to be generated. □Solves the data accuracy and the data transparency issue.

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. BFKLink™ − Getting Started Principal Set-Up Period

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. Manage Your Linkage Support Team Support team members can manage (add/remove) staff, staff classes and rosters, and modify linkages as necessary.

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. Teacher Linkage Teachers begin the linkage process by viewing a list of all their classes for tested subjects requiring linkage.

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. Reviewing and Modifying Class Rosters Class rosters must be reviewed and accurately completed.

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. Percentage of Instruction (Mobility) Mobility information is combined with % of instruction information. In Advance Mode, nine separate months of instruction are collected.

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. Setting Percentage of Instruction  In most cases, teachers will set all students at 100%.  Team teaching situations might share student instruction at 50% each.  A special education teacher may claim a student for as little as 20%.

©2010. Battelle for Kids. Proprietary and Confidential. Battelle for Kids’ Philosophy Balance is the key:  Multiple data sources/measures  Across time  Linking teaching instruction to students  Informing instruction based on data  Student success in college, workplace and life