Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Data Teams

Are you already in a PLC? Are you using data to make educational decisions? If so, be sure you include the information you can gain from the Assessment Center reports in your data set.

In Assessment Center, the Detailed Performance on Standards report gives a look at how students have done over a selected set of assessments. Aggregating the tests gives a larger sample of questions that cover the same skill, and therefore, increases the validity of the information. You could also select only early assessments in one report and in a second report select only recent assessments, and then in effect have a comparison from two different periods of time.

Also in Assessment Center, you will find the Assessment Comparison Report which will allow you to compare two or more assessments and give a look at growth over time.

Be sure you take a look at the set of reports that are available, and if you would like to have a project leader come to your building, be sure to contact your project leader to set up a visit.