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Software tools for data driven research and analysis - 21 views

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Anne Bubnic

Remark K-12 Education - 13 views

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    Whether you are scanning paper tests and forms or collecting data online, Remark products provide you with the tools you need to get your results quickly.
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    Inksaver offers the lowest prices on toner cartridges and ink cartridges in South Africa Depending on your HP printer, it may integrate printheads within the printer or a part of the printer cartridge. Type 1: Cartridges with integrated printheads Integrated printer cartridges have a printhead integrated into them, and this design incorporates the printhead (nozzle plate) into the cartridge's side. If you are having trouble with a particularly streaky cartridge, replacing it with a brand-new cartridge will typically fix your print quality issue since every time you return one of these printer cartridges, you are also replacing the printhead. The Deskjet 1112 and the ENVY 7855 are two less expensive Deskjet and ENVY printer types that frequently use HP's integrated printer cartridges. https://inksaver12.wixsite.com/inksaver-printer-ink/post/what-are-the-types-of-hp-printheads https://inksaver.co.za/collections/pantum https://inksaver.co.za
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Authentic Assessment Toolbox Home Page - 13 views

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    A how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.
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Taking data to new depths [Nancy Love] - 0 views

  • While collaborative inquiry is appropriate for any content area, it is particularly relevant for mathematics and science because the process mirrors for the adults what students experience in our best mathematics and science classrooms. Data teams investigate not scientific phenomena or mathematics problems, but how to improve teaching and learning. They raise questions, examine student learning and other data, test their hypotheses, and share findings with their colleagues.
  • Typically, one or two teachers, one administrator, and one NSF project staff member become data facilitators for a school. They then convene school-based data teams to focus on improving mathematics and science. Sometimes team members are from the mathematics or science department or are existing grade-level teams. Other times, the team is schoolwide.
  • If data facilitators have only one source of data on student learning, they collect additional data such as local assessments or common grade-level and course assessments for the next data facilitator session. The process emphasizes triangulating data, using three different sources of student learning data before identifying the student learning problem. By triangulating, data facilitators guide data teams to test hunches with other data instead of drawing conclusions from a single measure.
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  • In their data facilitator workshops, data facilitators use the "go visual" principle, first developed by nonverbal communications expert Michael Grinder (1997). Grinder revealed the power of large, visually vibrant and color-coded displays of data in fostering group ownership and engagement. Data facilitators work with the team on one data report at a time to avoid overload and confusion. For each report, they create a colorful newsprint-sized graph displaying the results and post it on their "data wall." Then they record their observations and inferences on additional pieces of newsprint that they post under their chart. As they work with additional data, they add more graphs and more observations and inferences to their data wall.
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    There's a ton of data being collected. The trick is to know how to use it effectively.
Anne Bubnic

Assessment FOR Learning: What a Difference A Word Makes [pdf] - 7 views

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    Article by Rick Stiggins.
Anne Bubnic

Using the CST Analyzer - 0 views

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    A Breeze Presentation created by CTAP4 and RSDSS to help users understand how to use the free CST Analyzer tool with student test data.
Anne Bubnic

Using Classroom Data to Improve Student Achievement - 0 views

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    Simple strategies & tools to make sense of your student achievement data from Dennis Fox. The site includes downloadable workshop handouts.
Anne Bubnic

ISTE Classroom Observation Tool - 2 views

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    The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.
    1. TEACHERS can use ICOT to learn from colleagues.
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Student Grouping in a PLC - 2 views

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    There is a significant difference between differentiated instruction and differentiated curriculum. Tracking is dedicated to the later. Differentiated instruction is not just clustering all students with similar learning needs into one group and providing them with different curriculum, but rather it requires giving students who are struggling to learn the essentials more time, more support, and new learning experiences with different strategies and different structures such as small-group instruction and individual tutoring.
Anne Bubnic

Leading the Charge for Real-Time Data - 2 views

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    Well before the idea of using data to manage schools gained prominence on the national stage, Oklahoma's Western Heights school district had made the ideal of real-time, data-driven decisionmaking a reality. Back in 2001, Superintendent Joe Kitchens was already being spotlighted for his focus on creating a longitudinal-data system that would give teachers in the 3,400-student district the ability to make quick decisions to improve student learning, while reducing the time spent compiling reports.
Anne Bubnic

Art of Teaching - Assessing Learning - 8 views

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    Assessment is most often associated with grading, but there are in fact several other purposes for assessment which are just as (if not more) important to teaching and learning.
Anne Bubnic

Remark OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) and Web Survey Software for survey scanning, test... - 3 views

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    Flagship product, Remark Office OMR®, is the leading scanning software for collecting and analyzing data from plain-paper OMR (optical mark recognition) forms, using any common image scanner. You have the flexibility to create and print your own OMR (or "bubble") forms, and scan them with your TWAIN compatible image scanner.
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What Is a "Professional Learning Community"? |Richard DuFour - 0 views

  • Big Idea #1: Ensuring That Students Learn The professional learning community model flows from the assumption that the core mission of formal education is not simply to ensure that students are taught but to ensure that they learn. This simple shift—from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning—has profound implications for schools.
  • Big Idea #2: A Culture of Collaboration Educators who are building a professional learning community recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all. Therefore, they create structures to promote a collaborative culture.
  • Big Idea #3: A Focus on Results Professional learning communities judge their effectiveness on the basis of results. Working together to improve student achievement becomes the routine work of everyone in the school. Every teacher team participates in an ongoing process of identifying the current level of student achievement, establishing a goal to improve the current level, working together to achieve that goal, and providing periodic evidence of progress. The focus of team goals shifts. Such goals as "We will adopt the Junior Great Books program" or "We will create three new labs for our science course" give way to "We will increase the percentage of students who meet the state standard in language arts from 83 percent to 90 percent" or "We will reduce the failure rate in our course by 50 percent."
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    The professional learning community model has now reached a critical juncture, one well known to those who have witnessed the fate of other well-intentioned school reform efforts. In this all-too-familiar cycle, initial enthusiasm gives way to confusion about the fundamental concepts driving the initiative, followed by inevitable implementation problems, the conclusion that the reform has failed to bring about the desired results, abandonment of the reform, and the launch of a new search for the next promising initiative. Another reform movement has come and gone, reinforcing the conventional education wisdom that promises, "This too shall pass."
Anne Bubnic

Data done right - 0 views

  • This is the NCLB model. Schools are expected to collect data once a year, slice and dice them in various ways, set some goals based on the analyses, do some things differently, and then wait another whole year to see if their efforts were successful. Somehow, this model is supposed to get schools to 100% proficiency on key learning outcomes.
  • he key difference in this model is an emphasis on ongoing progress monitoring and continuous, useful data flow to teachers
  • Under this approach, schools have good baseline data available to them, which means that the data are useful for diagnostic purposes in the classroom and thus relevant to instruction. The data also are timely, meaning that teachers rarely have to wait more than a few days to get results. In an effective data-driven school, educators also are very clear about what essential instructional outcomes they are trying to achieve (this is actually much rarer than one would suppose) and set both short- and long-term measurable instructional goals from their data.
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  • It is this middle part of the model that often is missing in school organizations. When it is in place and functioning well, schools are much more likely to achieve their short- and long-term instructional goals and students are much more likely to achieve proficiency on accountability-oriented standardized tests. Teachers in schools that have this part of the model mastered rarely, if ever, complain about assessment because the data they are getting are helpful to their classroom practice.
  • When done right, data-driven decision-making is about helping educators make informed decisions to benefit students. It is about helping schools know whether what they are doing is working or not
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    Thoughtful analysis from Scott McLeod. In his work with numerous school organizations in multiple states, he has seen the power of data firsthand. When done right, data-driven education can have powerful impacts on the learning outcomes of students. Unfortunately, most school districts still are struggling with their data-driven practice. Much of this is because they continue to think about using data from a compliance mindset rather than using data for meaningful school improvement
Anne Bubnic

10 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Data-Driven Decision Making - 0 views

  • 1. If you're not using data to make decisions, you're flying blind.
  • 2. This is all about a process, not a specific technology.
  • 4. You will be spending more money, not less.
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  • 5. Data-driven decision making does not save time.
  • The first year is all about setting goals in the community and district. Year two is about roll-out and implementation, and it's not until years three or four that you can really see the effects,"
  • 3. Get ready to feel threatened.
  • 6. Your data's cleanliness is next to Godliness.
  • 7. Don't shoot first and ask questions later.
  • 9. NLCB is just the beginning of your journey.
  • 8. A good D3M solution is one you can afford to change.
  • 10. Word of warning: D3M is highly addictive.
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    Everyone's talking about D3M. Use this guide to help prevent all that data from driving you nuts.
Anne Bubnic

Seven Steps to Creating a Data Driven Decision Making Culture - 0 views

  • In this post I hope to share the essence of some of the main ideas communicated in the speech. The format is: words from the slide followed by a short narrative on the core message of the slide. Hope you find it useful.
  • The biggest challenge in our current environment is that it is trivial to implement a tool, it takes five minutes. But tools are limiting and can just give us data. What compounds the challenge is that we all have this deep tendency to make decisions that come from who we are influenced from our life experiences. Based on my humble experience of the last few years here are seven common sense recommendations for creating a data driven company culture……
  • # 6 Reporting is not Analysis
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  • # 7 Go for the bottom-line (outcomes)
  • # 5 Depersonalize decision making
  • # 4 Proactive insights rather than reactive
  • # 3 Empower your analysts
  • # 2 Solve for the Trinity
  • # 1: Got Process?
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    The title of this presentation at the Washington DC Emetrics summit was: Creating a Data Driven Web Decision Making Culture - Lessons, Tips, Insights from a Practitioner. Although meant for corporations, the advice applies just as well to academic institutions. The goal here was to share tips and insights that might help companies move from just having lots and lots of data to creating cultures where decisions are made not on gut-feel, or the proverbial seat of the pants, but rather based on data.
Anne Bubnic

Data building better teachers - 0 views

  • The popular term for what's going on in the Richmond School District and other school systems throughout the region is data-driven decision making. How that plays out varies from school district to school district, from weekly meetings and annual data retreats to regular standardized assessments of student performance. What it means is educators are getting more scientific in how they approach teaching and learning in today's schools.
  • Use of the data for instruction is still in its infancy, according to Laura Maly, a math instructional coach who works with teachers at Bradley Tech and Pulaski high schools on applying the benchmark assessments to their classroom work. But she's optimistic that the more teachers learn about what information is available to them on their students, the greater impact it will have.
  • One of the main obstacles that schools say they face in taking advantage of the plethora of information available to them in the technological age is finding time for teachers to study their students' academic performance on objective measures and plan ways to address any shortcomings. In the Oconomowoc School District, each school has held a "data day" for staff before the start of school for the last four years. The Wauwatosa School District is experimenting in several schools with having teachers gather to figure out how to take information from the MAP test and apply it in their classrooms.
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    Districts use new methods to learn what works best for kids
    No longer is it viewed as acceptable for teachers to deliver lectures, administer grades and expect their students to simply try harder. Teachers are increasingly being asked to use assessments and collect data on student learning to gauge whether their methods are succeeding and what more needs to be done.
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Ackerman releases 5-part accountability program | - 0 views

  • The five assessment areas are: student achievement, which could include success on state tests and graduation rates; school operations, which could include teacher vacancies, class sizes and serious incidents; constituent satisfaction, which will look at results of student, parent and teacher surveys; school-selected indicators, which could include the percentage of students passing advanced classes, for example; and extra credit, which would be improvement in areas identified as challenging, such as increasing the number of students in the advanced category on the state's math and reading test.
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    Philadelphia School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman yesterday unveiled a new accountability system that will go far beyond standardized test scores to determine how well each school and region is performing. Ackerman is the former county superintendent of schools in San Francisco.
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Improving Decisions with Data [Doug Johnson] - 0 views

  • Harnessing more powerful data tools and greater amounts of data.
  • Granting teacher, parent and community access to data
  • Planning and utilizing interoperability standards
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  • Guaranteeing integrity, privacy and security
  • Building data analysis and interpretation skills
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    Administrators will face, if they aren't already, five particular challenges in their use of data.
    1.Harnessing more powerful data tools and greater amounts of data.
    2.Granting teacher, parent and community access to data
    3. Planning and utilizing interoperability standards
    4. Guaranteeing integrity, privacy and security
    5. Building data analysis and interpretation skills

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