Data...It's All About Those Patterns!

Team Puzzler

What do we do when we find a piece we cannot explain?

Pre-Assessment Time!

• Log on to Socrative.com
• Click on Student Login (top right corner)
• Enter Teacher Room Code TFHS9 and Join
• It's All In the Data! Quiz

Goals for this session:
*Be able to talk about data with parents and students in an understandable way

*To look at district assessments and be able to understand and interpret the data correctly


*To find and use data that is all around us

*To find and interpret patterns in data

Sit on the other side of the table.....I have some results to share with you.

What is the moral of the story?

• We HAVE to know what the scores we are reporting mean, or our data has no meaning.
• Since we HAVE to spend a great deal of time and effort to be data-based, we need to make sure it is meaningful and useful

Norm? Who's Norm?

There are many types of data!

• Nominal---a list that is not quantitative (phone book, class list)
• Ordinal--rank order data; curved (percentile, WIAT, GE)
• Interval--ranked in equal intervals; ladder (MAP, temperature)
• Ratio--has absolute 0; part to a whole (percents, attendance data)

Here's some "puzzling" vocabulary to practice

Percentile

• Do you understand it
• Can you explain it?
• Now try it in human speak

Grade Equivalent

• What is it?
• What it isn't?
• Try it in parent-friendly language
• Why do we need to be careful with it?
• Try it in parent-friendly language

Age Equivalent

• What does it mean?
• Try to explain it without your partner's eyes glazing over

It's a harmless bell curve

• What do I know about it?
• What questions do I have about it?

Let's spice it up!

• 1 tsp. Standard Scores
• 1 c. Percentiles
• A dash of color
• 4 peeled Descriptors

How can we use this beautiful piece of art?

Practice Makes Perfect!

• Use the following WIAT Scores and your fancy bell curve to "show" your partner where your student ranks when compared to his/her same grade peer

WIAT Scores to Report:


Total Reading--SS 67
Mathematics--SS 94

Insert Audience Participation Here....

What are the hardest type of goals to write?

All goals have to have data, so where do we find it?

Say it with me now, "Everywhere"!!

You be the detective!

• Start tearing it apart
• What data is present?
• What patterns do you see?
• Reasons for the patterns
• These reasons will guide interventions

Million $ Tool--FREE!

• Grade for study skills
• Data for goal formation and progress monitoring
• Documentation
• Self-grading opportunity
• Discipline
• Way to grade subjective classes

We have great data! Now what?

We do what we do....

Use a PLAAFP to create a kiddo

• As your OPI monitor would say, make sure your PLAAFP has:
• Current performance (qualitative and quantitative). What they can do; what they can't do. Academic and functional.
• Baseline for MAG
• Show how the disability affects progress in regular curriculum

Share your PLAAFP with a new partner

When your partner is done say, "Wow! That was amazing! Thanks."

You know what's next! Create 2-3 MAGs using your amazing baseline data.

Share your goals with the same partner.

Explain to them how you will monitor goal progress.

Post Assessment Time!

• Log on to Socrative.com
• Click on Student Login
• Teacher Room Code TFHS9
• It's All About the Data! Quiz 2

Thank you for coming!

Michelle Fitchett
mfitchett23@gmail.com

(406)546-3349