Data Timeline Below is our timeline showing our meeting dates and minutes (where available and applicable). March 2013 March 4-Data team puts MOY Writing data into spreadsheets March 27-Discuss department graphs for 6 Trait Writing support. February 2013 February 13- CreateTerra Nova Data Charts. SRI Data Chart was created. February 25- Meeting to discuss writing data and prepare next writing prompt. January 2013 January 3- Created school profile charts. January 24-look at school profile, go through charts: add descriptions and analysis. Updated Table of Contents. December 2012
December 17, 2012 -Added the 2012 PSAT data to the Wiki. Sent the PSAT data to the Department Chairs for discussion. We discussed how we can adjust instruction based on the data.Some ideas: were SAT word of the day, seminar time to practice vocabulary.
We chose a writing prompt for the January all school writing assessment. This will be presented at the CSILT meeting on Wednesday. November 2012
November 1 - Emails were sent out with charts created from the writing data to Mr. Derr
November 2- Data from the all school write presented to faculty. October 2012
October 2 - Faculty meeting
Presentation of the results of spring reading assessment (baseline). Discuss local assessments to be administer and graded during this school year (writing assessment baseline in Sept., writing and reading assessments check-point at the beginning of semester 2)
October 5 - Staff Development Day
Presentation and discussion of writing rubric
Anchor paper training for the writing assessment
Grading of writing assessment (baseline)
October 31- Data meeting regarding the all school writing data. We discussed how the remainder of the papers will be scored and the format for the data.
An excel sheet was created with tabs for each grade level. scores for each trait will be recorded.
September 2012
September 5- Looked at the item analysis from TerraNova 2011-2012. Discussed the writing prompt for the September 25th all-school write. We recommend that an Expository Prompt be used, get the prompt from the 6 Trait Writing book. Discuss creating a survey for inservices/faculty meetings: need to know the focus of the survey to develop one. Data Community Minutes 5Sept2012.docx Data Community Minutes 17Sept2012.docx Data Community Minutes 21Sept2012.docx September 25, 2012
Writing Assessment (Baseline) during seminar August 2012
August 21- Staff meeting, then broke into our 6 communities. As a community, we looked at the 6 required actions and discussed how the data team can contribute.
June 2012 June 5--Results of the assessment were presented to the faculty. They showed that although our students have adequate grasp of vocabulary (probably as a result of an emphasis on that particular skill during the last CSI process), they have deficits in the two higher levels of critical reading skills.
May 2012
May 31--Local Reading Assessment was given to all students during seminar. Data team and other volunteers transferred students' reponses to a series of Excel files and sent them to Dr. Debus, who is in charge of data at the district office. May 18--Data committee gave a report on the upcoming Reading Comprehension Assessment--a 30-question multiple-choice assessment that checks vocabulary, understanding of main ideas and organization, and drawing inferences. Procedures for distributing, administering, collecting, analyzing data, and reporting options were reviewed.
May 17: CSILT (comprised in part by members of the Data team) met all day to discuss the progress of the Reading Comprehension test and to begin refining the writing goal by the same method as was used with the critical reading goal. The committee decided to reword our schools statement of goals from "critical reading and writing skills" to "writing and critical reading skills" to clarify that our focus will be on writing skills in general.
May 15: "Next Steps" full faculty meeting discussed and solidified the duties and contact information for all committes, including Data.
March 2012: March 27--CSILT full-day meeting--We met to refine our critical reading goal, schedule a series of assessments to track our progress, and prepare to align the assessments as closely as possible with those stated goals. Data team members participated in the discussion and were tasked with producing a series of 30-item assessments of critical reading skills. The first will be given in May, 2012, to field-test the assessment itself and demonstrate the school's commitment to the process. The second will be given in September, 2012, as a baseline for the 2012-2013 year. The third will be given in early 2013.
CSI Local Assessment Team (CSILT) Meeting Mon. March 12, 2012--This committee, which includes Data team members, discussed possible assessments that would address local needs. At this point, discussion was wide-ranging, but we laid the foundation for a full-day meeting to be held on March. 27, with representatives from all disciplines, to narrow the reading goal and develop an assessment which would match the skills mentioned on both pre- and post-tests.
Below is our timeline showing our meeting dates and minutes (where available and applicable).
March 2013
March 4-Data team puts MOY Writing data into spreadsheets
March 27-Discuss department graphs for 6 Trait Writing support.
February 2013
February 13- CreateTerra Nova Data Charts. SRI Data Chart was created.
February 25- Meeting to discuss writing data and prepare next writing prompt.
January 2013
January 3- Created school profile charts.
January 24-look at school profile, go through charts: add descriptions and analysis. Updated Table of Contents.
December 2012
December 17, 2012 -Added the 2012 PSAT data to the Wiki. Sent the PSAT data to the Department Chairs for discussion. We discussed how we can adjust instruction based on the data.Some ideas: were SAT word of the day, seminar time to practice vocabulary.
We chose a writing prompt for the January all school writing assessment. This will be presented at the CSILT meeting on Wednesday.
November 2012
November 1 - Emails were sent out with charts created from the writing data to Mr. Derr
November 2- Data from the all school write presented to faculty.
October 2012
October 2 - Faculty meeting
Presentation of the results of spring reading assessment (baseline). Discuss local assessments to be administer and graded during this school year (writing assessment baseline in Sept., writing and reading assessments check-point at the beginning of semester 2)
October 5 - Staff Development Day
Presentation and discussion of writing rubric
Anchor paper training for the writing assessment
Grading of writing assessment (baseline)
October 31- Data meeting regarding the all school writing data. We discussed how the remainder of the papers will be scored and the format for the data.
An excel sheet was created with tabs for each grade level. scores for each trait will be recorded.
September 2012
September 5- Looked at the item analysis from TerraNova 2011-2012. Discussed the writing prompt for the September 25th all-school write. We recommend that an Expository Prompt be used, get the prompt from the 6 Trait Writing book. Discuss creating a survey for inservices/faculty meetings: need to know the focus of the survey to develop one.
Data Community Minutes 5Sept2012.docx
Data Community Minutes 17Sept2012.docx
Data Community Minutes 21Sept2012.docx
September 25, 2012
Writing Assessment (Baseline) during seminar
August 2012
August 21- Staff meeting, then broke into our 6 communities. As a community, we looked at the 6 required actions and discussed how the data team can contribute.
June 2012
June 5--Results of the assessment were presented to the faculty. They showed that although our students have adequate grasp of vocabulary (probably as a result of an emphasis on that particular skill during the last CSI process), they have deficits in the two higher levels of critical reading skills.
May 2012
May 31--Local Reading Assessment was given to all students during seminar. Data team and other volunteers transferred students' reponses to a series of Excel files and sent them to Dr. Debus, who is in charge of data at the district office.
May 18--Data committee gave a report on the upcoming Reading Comprehension Assessment--a 30-question multiple-choice assessment that checks vocabulary, understanding of main ideas and organization, and drawing inferences. Procedures for distributing, administering, collecting, analyzing data, and reporting options were reviewed.
May 17: CSILT (comprised in part by members of the Data team) met all day to discuss the progress of the Reading Comprehension test and to begin refining the writing goal by the same method as was used with the critical reading goal. The committee decided to reword our schools statement of goals from "critical reading and writing skills" to "writing and critical reading skills" to clarify that our focus will be on writing skills in general.
May 15: "Next Steps" full faculty meeting discussed and solidified the duties and contact information for all committes, including Data.
March 2012:
March 27--CSILT full-day meeting--We met to refine our critical reading goal, schedule a series of assessments to track our progress, and prepare to align the assessments as closely as possible with those stated goals. Data team members participated in the discussion and were tasked with producing a series of 30-item assessments of critical reading skills. The first will be given in May, 2012, to field-test the assessment itself and demonstrate the school's commitment to the process. The second will be given in September, 2012, as a baseline for the 2012-2013 year. The third will be given in early 2013.
CSI Local Assessment Team (CSILT) Meeting Mon. March 12, 2012--This committee, which includes Data team members, discussed possible assessments that would address local needs. At this point, discussion was wide-ranging, but we laid the foundation for a full-day meeting to be held on March. 27, with representatives from all disciplines, to narrow the reading goal and develop an assessment which would match the skills mentioned on both pre- and post-tests.