Interpreting assessments of school or district results
Planning requires a firm grasp of the soft meaning of test results. It also requires that the progress of the same students over time be measured. Learn how to make reasonable claims of the progress of student learning in your school or district. Smarter plans will be the result.
Interpreting assessments of student results
Ambiguous evidence of student learning is the rule, not the exception. Yet you and your teachers must make decisions about student assignments based on this evidence. Learn how to tame that ambiguity, and make those tough decisions with the best quality evidence in hand.
Interpreting assessments
Test results are uncertain, and human judgment is fallible. Yet, handling that uncertainty properly can improve the quality of human judgment. Learn the assessment fundamentals that will boost your team’s assessment IQ and help them make wiser decisions.
Reporting assessment results
Assessment results are frequently misunderstood by everyone – staff, leaders and parents – and one culprit is poor quality reporting. Learn the do’s and don’ts of assessment reporting. Understand the roots of those misunderstandings. Discover how easy it can be to avoid these hazards.
Mismeasurement of schools’ and districts’ vital signs
Whether or not your school or district has landed in differentiated assistance, it’s time to review the limits of the Dashboard. We will review the roots of mismeasurement, and show you other approaches that enable you to see your school’s or district’s vital signs in a new light.
Mismeasurement of schools’ and districts’ vital signs
Whether or not your school or district has landed in differentiated assistance, it’s time to review the limits of the Dashboard. We will review the roots of mismeasurement, and show you other approaches that enable you to see your school’s or district’s vital signs in a new light.
Impact of accountability reporting
Enrollment and reputation of your schools and district are affected by accountability reports. Learn what happens to your accountability reports once they are published. Includes parent choice scenarios, and their search for facts that influence their decisions. Includes review of other sources of school information.
Accountability reporting fundamentals
Schools’ reputations are rising and falling based on their accountability reports. These SARC reports are under your control. Is your team taking full advantage of this opportunity to tell your schools’ stories effectively? Learn what a difference good reporting can make.
Accountability reporting fundamentals
Schools’ and districts’ reputations are rising and falling based on their accountability reports. Yet the skills required to do it effectively have not been codified and conveyed to those responsible for doing that work. You’ll learn how to do this effectively, and what a difference good reporting can make.
Planning with comparative visual evidence
When you see the vital signs of your district or school in the context of others whose students are very much like your own, you may be very surprised. Learn to see those vital signs with fresh eyes when you expand your visual vocabulary. See progress of test results redefined in a way that makes sense.
