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Connecting the Management of Data to the NYS and Local District Assessment Systems
Joan Thompson, SuperintendentHendrick Hudson School District
November 2, 2005
Essential Questions to Focus Today’s Presentation
What are the major components of a district’s assessment program?
How can we best use data from the warehouse in the district, school, program and classroom level?
How can the data be managed? How can the assessment data be made
meaningful for administrators and teachers?
Five Reasons Not to Develop a Data Warehouse
5-You want to save money for your school or district
4-You have no time to work with data3-You want more data reports from NYSED2-You do not know the current
assessments used in your district K-121-You want to increase your popularity
with your staff
Five Reasons to Develop and Utilize a Data Warehouse
5-Using the current system of permanent record cards is less then efficient
4-Assessment comes from multiple sources
3-Teachers utilize their skills to better understand students needs and revise their instruction
2-A data warehouse assists in improving program effectiveness
1-A data warehouse works to improve student achievement
Standardized testing Traditional classroom assessments Locally developed performance
assessments Portfolio NYSED assessments including regents
What Are the Major Components of a District’s Assessment Program ?
District Goals Utilize Assessment Data
Monitor Students’ Progress
Assessment
(performance, portfolio and traditional)
Evaluate Students’ Achievement
Informs teachers decisions
about instruction
Evaluate Program
Revise Program
Improve Instruction
Schoolwide applications
Program decisions Item analysis – 4th grade Science Standardized tests - Reading Academic Intervention Services Enrichment/Gifted Services Communication with
parents/community
Program or classroom applications
Culture of data inquiry Inform instruction Grouping Student profiles Uses in secondary school Next steps
What can administrators learn about students?
Profile groups of students for a specific purpose or program
Assist in completing required reports (local or SED)
Review trends in order to evaluate program design and/or materials
What can teachers learn about their students?
Academic profile for each student
Informs instruction based on years of assessment data
Provides a picture of the range of students’ academic abilities as portrayed through the assessments
Currently Available Data
Reports
NYS Assessments
Local Assessments
Standardized Tests
Regents and Course Grades
COGNOS QUERY
Provides for customizing reports in a user friendly way
Ability to select the data fields you wish to explore
Adds possibilities of graphs, charts, etc.