TREATING YOUR DATA WITH CARE

Congratulations on Completing Your Y1 Pathway!

You created a plan to sensibly and defensibly measure your students’ achievement

You have collected, analyzed, and acted on those data…

In order to improve your practice, and increase student learning

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Now that it’s the end-of-year, it’s time to reflect

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Or is

it?

Before you reflect on EOY results, you must confirm that you have treated your data with care

That’s a critical part of Verifying Outcomes

Treating your data with care requires that they be…

Honest Accurate

Complete

Error-Free

HONEST Data

Are an honest reporting of what your students actually accomplished

This means…

• Inputting the correct data in your tracker file

• Scoring running records precisely, even when students are “close” to the next level

• Keeping all standards in your tracker even if you didn’t get to teach all of them

ACCURATE Data

Reflect your initial Pathway and any changes that may have occurred

This means…

• Finalizing your roster to include students who joined your class mid-year

• Finalizing your roster to remove students who were with you less than 50% of instructional time

• Scoring all assessments with fidelity

• That your data reflect outcomes from aligned, high-quality, rigorous assessments

COMPLETE Data

Contain all the data necessary to complete your Pathway

This means…

• Including your full name and other relevant info within your tracker

• Collecting at least two rounds of data for every student on your roster

• For standards mastery Pathways, ensuring each standard has been assessed

• Ensuring standards are assessed with the adequate rigor and at-bats necessary to make a valid inference about student learning

ERROR-FREE Data

Have been checked and double checked to make sure no errors exist

This means…

• Ensuring no typos exist in any cells

• Ensuring no errors exist in any formulas

• Ensuring no formatting errors exist

• That your tracker has been saved successfully

Data that have not been verified may

send the wrong message about what

has been achieved

Like an umpire who makes a bad call, it sends the wrong signal about what happened

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and can send the wrong message to…

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our students our students’ parents

our colleagues our advisers ourselves

Treating your data with care is a critical part of your role as a teacher

and a graduate student

Your students deserve it!

Honest Accurate

Complete

Error-Free