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Data Analysis For Continuous Improvement Template

The document provides guidance on analyzing student achievement data to inform a school's continuous improvement process. It outlines steps to identify key student groups, set SMART goals for overall achievement and closing gaps, and review proficiency trends for all students and different student groups. Coaching notes provide tips on facilitating the data analysis process over multiple sessions with school leadership and teacher teams.

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Data Analysis For Continuous Improvement Template

The document provides guidance on analyzing student achievement data to inform a school's continuous improvement process. It outlines steps to identify key student groups, set SMART goals for overall achievement and closing gaps, and review proficiency trends for all students and different student groups. Coaching notes provide tips on facilitating the data analysis process over multiple sessions with school leadership and teacher teams.

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The continuous improvement process is guided by data available.

The depth to
which the data is analyzed depends on where in the process work is being done.
Below is a table with an overview of the steps and how they are linked to the
Record of Continuous Improvement (RCI), and Implementation Science (IS). Below
the table is further information on the process.

Coaching notes for the process:


• Presentation
• Use the “Data Analysis & Use for Continuous Improvement Template”
Power Point, and insert identified data.
• Time needed
• Allow 3 hours for steps 1-4 on the first day, and another 3 hours for steps
5-7 on a second day.
• Data
• Be sure to have data (charts and tables) easily readable for all
participants. Ideally, each participant will have their own set of data charts
and tables on which to take notes.
• Materials Needed
• Data charts for participants
• 3 large pieces of poster paper
• Write “Questions” on one, “Concerns” on one, and “Feelings” on
one.

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• 3 pieces of paper for each participant. Have them write the words from
above on each of their sheets
• Post-It notes
• Recommended process
• Complete all steps with School Leadership Team, possibly with a few
additional key teachers.
• Utilize information from Leadership Team process, and then repeat steps 4-
7 with larger teacher group or all teachers.
• Alternate process #1
• Complete steps 1-4 with School Leadership Team, possibly with a few
additional key teachers.
• Utilize information from Leadership Team process, and complete steps 5-7
with larger teacher group or all teachers.
• Alternate process #2
• Complete all steps with School Leadership Team, possibly with a few
additional key teachers.

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• Using school-level proficiency data, create the SMART goal for math and
reading.

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Overview
• Schools should have an “All Students” goal that focuses on increasing proficiency
schoolwide for students enrolled the full academic year in the school.
• Be sure to refer to the “Proficiency Rate Change Expectations” document when
setting SMART goals.

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports >
School Improvement Assessment Reports. Start by selecting your district
and school.
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for Both Mathematics and Reading
• Focus
• Set schoolwide achievement goals based on trends

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Setting the SMART Goal
• Review the “SMART Goal Format” document
• Utilizing the “SMART Goal Setting” template, set the smart goals for math and
reading
• Only use the first sheet titled “All Student Goal Setting.”
• This serves as your school’s “Elevator Speech,” or the big picture goal
communicated with your parents and community.
• This needs to be done before moving ahead in the data mining/analysis process.
• This is a quick process (should not take more than 20-30 minutes).

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• Insert the information for the school and subject

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• It is important that school leaders know their student populations and
population distributions prior to doing deeper analysis.
• Identify the largest student groups to help understand where to focus time and
effort.
• Using School Improvement Enrollment Reports from the Secure Reports on the
MDE website, identify the largest student groups.

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• It is important that school leaders know their student populations and
population distributions prior to doing deeper analysis.
• Identify the largest student groups to help understand where to focus time and
effort.
• Using School Improvement Enrollment Reports from the Secure Reports on the
MDE website, identify the largest student groups.

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Ethnicity Trends
Overview
• Gain understanding Enrollment of Ethnicity over time.

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Enrollment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Data View
• Enrollment Trends by Ethnicity
• Focus
• Identify any changes in ethnic enrollment distribution
• Q1: Has any ethnic student group increased significantly in the last 5
years?

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Special Population Trends
Overview

Report(s)
• Gain understanding Enrollment of Special Populations over time.

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Enrollment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Special Population Trends
• Data View
• Enrollment Trends by 3 Special Populations: Free/Reduced Lunch, English
Learners, Special Education
• Focus
• Identify any changes in special population enrollment distributions
• Q1: Has any special population group increased significantly in the last 5
years?

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Special Population Proportions within Ethnic Student Groups
Overview

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Enrollment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Special Populations Proportions within Ethnic Student
groups
• Data View
• student group Proportions within Each of 3 Special Populations:
Free/Reduced Lunch, English Learners, Special Education
• Focus
• Identify any changes in student group distributions within each special
population
• Q1: Is any ethnic student group represented in a special population at a
rate greater than enrollment?

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Special Population Proportions within Ethnic Student Groups
Overview

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Enrollment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Special Populations Proportions within Ethnic Student
groups
• Data View
• student group Proportions within Each of 3 Special Populations:
Free/Reduced Lunch, English Learners, Special Education
• Focus
• Identify any changes in student group distributions within each special
population
• Q1: Is any ethnic student group represented in a special population at a
rate greater than enrollment?

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Gender
Overview
Review Enrollment by gender to see if there have been significant changes, or if a gap
exists.

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Enrollment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Gender
• Data View
• Gender
• Focus
• Has either gender increased significantly in the last 5 years?
• Is there a significant gap between the gender counts?

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• It is important that school leaders know their student populations and
population distributions prior to doing deeper analysis.
• Gauging the Gap: Four Perspectives
• Simple Gap Narrowing
• Have absolute gaps between groups decreased over time?
• Progress for All
• Have all groups of students gained over time?
• Gap Size
• What is current size of gap between groups?
• Group Comparisons Across Jurisdictions
• How does each group of students compare with similar group in
other jurisdictions (or state)?
• How are your gaps closing?

• Using the SMART Goal Setting Template


• Enter information up to 2014
• Answer questions on sheets to identify which groups are of highest
concern/need.
• Write Student Group/Achievement Gap SMART Goals.

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No Notes

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Purpose
• Find content relationships to determine improvement focus.
• Reviewing trend data at the school level is part of the Comprehensive Needs
Assessment on the Record of Continuous Improvement.

Using School Improvement Assessment Reports, review proficiency and


achievement level trend data for all. Next review proficiency and achievement level
trend data by the student groups identified above in step #2.

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Proficiency Trends: All Students

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Assessment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1 and Different Student groups Represented in
School
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for Both Mathematics and Reading By Student groups
• Focus
• Identify content needing improvement attention, Mathematics or Reading or
both
• Q1: Is a content declining while other is increasing?
• Q2: Is a content performance inconsistent, i.e. not increasing consistently over
time?
• Q3: Is one content area increasing at a rate that makes it difficult to achieve
2017 target?

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Proficiency Trends: Student Groups
*Duplicate this slide for all Student Groups identified in step #2

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Assessment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1 and Different Student groups Represented in School
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for Both Mathematics and Reading By Student groups
• Focus
• Identify content needing improvement attention, Mathematics or Reading or both
• Q1: Is a content declining while other is increasing?
• Q2: Is a content performance inconsistent, i.e. not increasing consistently over
time?
• Q3: Is one content area increasing at a rate that makes it difficult to achieve 2017
target?

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Achievement Trends: All Students

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Assessment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1 and Different Student groups Represented in School
• Data View
• Achievement Level Distribution Trends for Both Mathematics and Reading
• Focus
• Identify content needing improvement attention, Mathematics or Reading or both
• Q4: Is a content showing increasing proportions of students earning a Does Not
Meet the Standards achievement level while proficiency rates stay the same or
are growing?
• Q5: Is a content showing decreasing or inconsistent proportions of students in the
Exceeds the Standards achievement level while the proficiency rates are staying
the same or increasing?

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Achievement Trends: Student Groups
*Duplicate this slide for all Student Groups identified in step #2

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Secured Reports > School
Improvement Assessment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1 and Different Student groups Represented in School
• Data View
• Achievement Level Distribution Trends for Both Mathematics and Reading
• Focus
• Identify content needing improvement attention, Mathematics or Reading or both
• Q4: Is a content showing increasing proportions of students earning a Does Not
Meet the Standards achievement level while proficiency rates stay the same or
are growing?
• Q5: Is a content showing decreasing or inconsistent proportions of students in the
Exceeds the Standards achievement level while the proficiency rates are staying
the same or increasing?

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Purpose
• Find content relationships to determine improvement focus.
• Reviewing trend data at the school level is part of the Comprehensive Needs
Assessment on the Record of Continuous Improvement.

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Proficiency Trends by Contrasting Student Groups: Math
*Duplicate this slide for all Student Groups identified in step #2

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment
Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Contrasting Student groups: Select appropriate comparison for each
question
• Q1: Contrasting Race/Ethnicities
• Q2: Free/Red Price Lunch vs. Non-Free/Red Price Lunch
• Q3: Special Ed vs. Non-Special Ed
• Q4: English Learners vs. Non-English Learners
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for
student group and Appropriate Counter Group(s)
• Focus
• Determine if school has student group achievement gap in proficiency

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rates
What are trends in differences of proficiency rates between:
• Q1: white students and each ethnic/racial student group represented in
school?
• Q2: students not eligible for free/reduced lunch and students eligible for
free/reduced lunch?
• Q3: students not eligible for special education services and students
eligible for special education services?
• Q4: students not eligible for English learner services and students eligible
for English learner services?
• Q5: Which student group has the largest persistent achievement gap?
• Q6: Which achievement gap persistently impacts greatest number of
students being low performing?

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Proficiency Trends by Contrasting Student Groups: Reading
*Duplicate this slide for all Student Groups identified in step #2

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment
Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Contrasting Student groups: Select appropriate comparison for each
question
• Q1: Contrasting Race/Ethnicities
• Q2: Free/Red Price Lunch vs. Non-Free/Red Price Lunch
• Q3: Special Ed vs. Non-Special Ed
• Q4: English Learners vs. Non-English Learners
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for
student group and Appropriate Counter Group(s)
• Focus
• Determine if school has student group achievement gap in proficiency

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rates
What are trends in differences of proficiency rates between:
• Q1: white students and each ethnic/racial student group represented in
school?
• Q2: students not eligible for free/reduced lunch and students eligible for
free/reduced lunch?
• Q3: students not eligible for special education services and students
eligible for special education services?
• Q4: students not eligible for English learner services and students eligible
for English learner services?
• Q5: Which student group has the largest persistent achievement gap?
• Q6: Which achievement gap persistently impacts greatest number of
students being low performing?

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Achievement Level Trends for Contrasting Student Groups: Math
*Duplicate this slide for all Student Groups identified in step #2

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Contrasting Student groups: Select appropriate comparison for each question
• Q1: Contrasting Race/Ethnicities
• Q2: Free/Red Price Lunch vs. Non-Free/Red Price Lunch
• Q3: Special Ed vs. Non-Special Ed
• Q4: English Learners vs. Non-English Learners
• Data View
• Achievement Level Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for student group
and Appropriate Counter Group(s)
• Focus
• Determine if changes in distribution of achievement levels is comparable across
compared student groups
• Q1: Is proportion of students earning Does Not Meet the Standards achievement level

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about same for each compared student group?
• Q2: Is proportion of students earning Exceeds the Standards achievement
level about same for each compared student group?

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Achievement Level Trends for Contrasting Student Groups: Reading
*Duplicate this slide for all Student Groups identified in step #2

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Contrasting Student groups: Select appropriate comparison for each question
• Q1: Contrasting Race/Ethnicities
• Q2: Free/Red Price Lunch vs. Non-Free/Red Price Lunch
• Q3: Special Ed vs. Non-Special Ed
• Q4: English Learners vs. Non-English Learners
• Data View
• Achievement Level Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for student group
and Appropriate Counter Group(s)
• Focus
• Determine if changes in distribution of achievement levels is comparable across
compared student groups
• Q1: Is proportion of students earning Does Not Meet the Standards achievement level

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about same for each compared student group?
• Q2: Is proportion of students earning Exceeds the Standards achievement
level about same for each compared student group?

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• Using School Improvement Assessment Reports, review proficiency and
achievement level trend data for all. Review the trend data at grade level by the
student groups identified in step #2 by grade level.
• Compare grade levels
• Focus on student groups identified in step #2

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Compare Grades: Proficiency Trends

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment
Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for
Selected Grades
• Focus
• Determine if proficiency rates are increasing effectively for each grade
• Q1: Are all grades showing steady increases? Or is one or more grades
showing inconsistent performance?
• Q2: Is there a cohort effect occurring in grade performance?
• Q3: Is a subsequent grade able to maintain same or greater proficiency
rate for a cohort?

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Compare Grades: Proficiency Trends

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment
Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Proficiency Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Data View
• Proficiency Rate Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for
Selected Grades
• Focus
• Determine if proficiency rates are increasing effectively for each grade
• Q1: Are all grades showing steady increases? Or is one or more grades
showing inconsistent performance?
• Q2: Is there a cohort effect occurring in grade performance?
• Q3: Is a subsequent grade able to maintain same or greater proficiency
rate for a cohort?

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Maintenance of Proficiency

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Follow instructions on Growth Detail: Learn Its Power Power Point
presentation showing how to manipulate and use the growth detail
download report to analyze data and interpret growth.
• Use Slides 1-7, 15-17
• Shows percentage of students proficient in the current year who were and
were not proficient in the previous year.

• Focus
• Are students staying proficient over time?
• Are students moving from not proficient to proficient?

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Purpose
• Find content relationships to determine improvement focus.
• Reviewing trend data at the school level is part of the Comprehensive Needs
Assessment on the Record of Continuous Improvement.

Using School Improvement Assessment Reports, review proficiency and


achievement level trend data for all.

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Compare Grades: Achievement Level Trends
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment
Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Data View
• Achievement Level Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for
Selected Grades
• Focus
• Determine if changes in distribution of achievement levels is comparable
in subsequent grade following year
• Q1: Is the distribution of students in achievement levels maintained or
improved as students move to subsequent grade?
• Q2: Is one grade struggling more than other grades to maintain
achievement level distributions?

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Compare Grades: Achievement Level Trends
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > School Improvement Assessment
Reports
• Detailed Selections
• Report Type: Achievement Level Trends
• Characteristics: Enrolled Oct 1
• Data View
• Achievement Level Trends for 1 Content (Mathematics or Reading) for
Selected Grades
• Focus
• Determine if changes in distribution of achievement levels is comparable
in subsequent grade following year
• Q1: Is the distribution of students in achievement levels maintained or
improved as students move to subsequent grade?
• Q2: Is one grade struggling more than other grades to maintain
achievement level distributions?

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Maintenance of Achievement Levels: Math

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Follow instructions on Growth Detail: Learn Its Power Point presentation
showing how to manipulate and use the growth detail download report to
analyze data and interpret growth.
• Use Slides 1-14
• Shows percentage of students proficient in the current year who were and
were not proficient in the previous year.

• Focus
• Are students remaining at same achievement level?
• Are students improving at same rate across grades?

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Maintenance of Achievement Levels: Reading

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Follow instructions on Growth Detail: Learn Its Power Point presentation
showing how to manipulate and use the growth detail download report to
analyze data and interpret growth.
• Use Slides 1-14
• Shows percentage of students proficient in the current year who were and
were not proficient in the previous year.

• Focus
• Are students remaining at same achievement level?
• Are students improving at same rate across grades?

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Purpose
• Find content relationships to determine improvement focus.
• Reviewing trend data at the school level is part of the Comprehensive Needs
Assessment on the Record of Continuous Improvement.

Using School Improvement Assessment Reports, review growth data for all. Next
review proficiency and achievement level trend data by the student groups
identified above in step #2.

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• Explain chart

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• Explain chart

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• Explain what to look for
• Happiest about positive growth for students with below proficient scores in prior
year.
• Happy about positive growth for students with proficient scores in prior year.
• Unhappy about negative growth for students with below proficient scores in
prior year.
• Very unhappy about negative growth for students with proficient scores in prior
year.
• When would I use it?
• After doing proficient and achievement data analysis

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Prior Year Score vs Current Year Growth z-score
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Utilize Math and Reading Growth Scatter Plot Templates
• Template is in: Continuous Improvement Tools in the Data Analysis folder
• Complete the templates as per the instructions
• View graphs by all, and by student groups identified in step #2
• Filter for Oct 1
• Focus
• Distribution: Where are the scores concentrated?

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Prior Year Score vs Current Year Growth z-score
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Utilize Math and Reading Growth Scatter Plot Templates
• Template is in: Continuous Improvement Tools in the Data Analysis folder
• Complete the templates as per the instructions
• View graphs by all, and by student groups identified in step #2
• Filter for Oct 1
• Focus
• Distribution: Where are the scores concentrated?

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Prior Year Score vs Current Year Growth z-score
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Utilize Math and Reading Growth Scatter Plot Templates
• Template is in: Continuous Improvement Tools in the Data Analysis folder
• Complete the templates as per the instructions
• View graphs by all, and by student groups identified in step #2
• Filter for Oct 1
• Focus
• Distribution: Where are the scores concentrated?

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Prior Year Score vs Current Year Growth z-score
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Utilize Math and Reading Growth Scatter Plot Templates
• Template is in: Continuous Improvement Tools in the Data Analysis folder
• Complete the templates as per the instructions
• View graphs by all, and by student groups identified in step #2
• Filter for Oct 1
• Focus
• Distribution: Where are the scores concentrated?

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Average Growth over Time

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Data Reports and Analytics > Multiple Measurement
District Download
• Detailed Selections
• District: select the district
• School: select the school
• Subject: math or reading
• Rating Year: select the desired year (*repeat the download for each year)
• Data View
• Go to the “Growth” sheet within the downloaded spreadsheet and enter
the growth z-score average for the year into the table for the graph.
• Focus
• Q1: What is the trend for growth?
• Q2: Is a content declining while other is increasing?
• Q3: Is a content performance inconsistent, i.e. not increasing consistently
over time?
• TO ENTER INTO GRAPH
• Right+click on graph

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• Select “Edit Data”
• Place data in spreadsheet

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Average Growth over Time: by grade

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secure Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Detailed Selections
• District: select the district
• School: select the school
• Subject: math or reading
• Rating Year: select the desired year (*repeat the download for each year)
• Data View
• Make the data on the sheet a table
• Filter
• Oct 1 in school: yes
• Use In Growth: yes
• Grade: each separately
• Calculate the average growth z-score for each grade and place into the date
table for the chart
• Focus
• Q1: What is the trend for growth?
• Q2: Is a content declining while other is increasing?
• Q3: Is a content performance inconsistent, i.e. not increasing consistently over time?

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Average Growth over Time: by grade

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secure Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Detailed Selections
• District: select the district
• School: select the school
• Subject: math or reading
• Rating Year: select the desired year (*repeat the download for each year)
• Data View
• Make the data on the sheet a table
• Filter
• Oct 1 in school: yes
• Use In Growth: yes
• Grade: each separately
• Calculate the average growth z-score for each grade and
place into the date table for the chart
• Focus
• Q1: What is the trend for growth?
• Q2: Is a content declining while other is increasing?
• Q3: Is a content performance inconsistent, i.e. not increasing consistently
over time?

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% of Students Making Expected Growth in Math & Reading

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Follow instructions on Growth Detail: Learn Its Power Point presentation
showing how to manipulate and use the growth detail download report to
analyze data and interpret growth.
• Use Slides 1-8
• Paste the Pivot table for math and reading into this slide.
• Focus
• What % of students are making expected growth
• What is the count of students for each?

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% of Students Making Expected Growth in Math & Reading by grade level
*Duplicate this slide for all grades as needed
*Duplicate this slide for student groups as wanted

Report(s)
• Location
• MDE Data Center > Secured Reports > Growth Detail Download
• Data View
• Follow instructions on Growth Detail: Learn Its Power Point presentation
showing how to manipulate and use the growth detail download report to
analyze data and interpret growth.
• Use Slides 1-8
• Paste the Pivot table for math and reading into this slide.
• Focus
• What % of students are making expected growth
• What is the count of students for each?

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Answer questions
• Have participants post their questions
• Go through questions and find answers (where possible)

Prioritize concerns
• Have participants post their top 3 concerns
• Review as a groups and prioritize top 3-5
• What does the data suggest?
• Is student performance in one content area weaker than another?
• Is achievement gap for a group and its counter group significantly larger than
another?
• Is size of a group significantly larger than another, making it more important to
change?

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No Notes

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Description and/or Use
• Using one of the tools, explore identified instructional problem(s) to determine cause.
• A Root Cause is an early controllable factor in a chain of factors which impacts student
learning.
• It identifies a relationship between a factor (the cause) and an outcome (the effect; i.e.,
student learning), where the outcome is understood as a consequence of the factor.

Tools [Choose the one(s) that will work best for the group]
• Data Driven Dialogue: Inferences
• Hypothesis Tool
• Five Why’s
• Fishbone

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