Build capacity for effective Data Use within schools

Provide
guidance and
training to
teachers

Raise
Build teacher How to Build
awareness of
capability to capacity for
the need for
improve effective Data
data-driven
student Use within
decision
learning schools?
making

Create a plan
and Act
 highlight
school focus
/areas of need
identify
identify students
students of
who are
concern and
underachieving
students who
and the shy
need to be
students
challenged

Interpret and use

differentiate track student
data effectively will
the activities progress
help to

create groups
identify
Based on trends
student needs

set progress
goals
 DATA
ANALYSIS

RAISE AWARENESS
AND BUILD TEACHER
CAPACITY
 Objectives
 Raise awareness
 Build teacher capacity

Standards
5.4.2 You may consider this
6.2.2 session for your
6.4.2 elective PD.
 Scout-Session 1
Part 1- Introduction
-The blind man and the elephant story
-Scout features .

Part 2- Live System Demonstration

-Log in to Scout
-Exploring NAPLAN App and Scout reports

Part 3- Practice time

-Student scores and bands reports
-Growth report
-Item analysis report

What do you notice?

Guess what is in the box

Theme of the session

Light
Once upon a time, a group The blind men and the elephant One feels the tusk and thinks the
elephant is a like a spear
of blind men touched an
elephant . One touches the squirming trunk and
Every one touched one It’s a fan thinks the elephant is like a snake.
part of it and based on One feels the knee and thinks
what they touched they the elephant is like a tree.
gave the explanation. It’s a wall
One touches the ear, and thinks
the elephant is like a fan.

One grasps the tail and

thinks it is like a rope.

It’s a spear
It’s a rope

It’s a tree

It’s a snake

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So ,in the darkness, the object
cannot be known to us in its
entirety..
 How does this story relate to data analysis?
 Each one proceed to inaccurately describe the whole elephant, based on
that one part.
 Each one is telling a different part of the story.
When the data, and the individual analysis, are not tied together, the
results can be misleading.
 When misleading analysis are used to make significant decisions, the
results can be disastrous.
 When we have limited data, our understanding will be incomplete and
hence inaccurate.
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When you access scout for the first
time
1 Scout Website You can quickly add the Scout
icon by selecting ‘Add to my
The Scout website is accessed through the staff portal. essentials’ from the list within My
Click on the Scout tile. applications.

2 4 Sign in with your DoE

credentials.

Click on ACCESS SCOUT REPORTS.

Click on Department of Education (DoE) Staff. This screen will only appear if you are logging into
Scout for the first time or from a different device.
Accessing Scout Reports

If no apps are displayed hit F5 on your keyboard

Click on this app

If you access it for the first time click on the Apps on the left and this page will open and you can select the App
you want. To load additional apps, repeat the process for all the apps you use.
Check under your chair or table
 Part 1
Access NAPLAN DoE report
and
Scout features
1 Scout Website
The Scout website is accessed through the staff portal.
Click on the Scout tile.

Click on ACCESS SCOUT REPORTS.

Click on Department of Education (DoE) Staff.

Apps page An app is a dashboard
containing a selection of reports.

Click on this one

Accessing Scout reports
When a user opens the NAPLAN DoE App, The welcome page is the landing page
and contains the following:
Name of the App
To access a report click on one on
Welcome page provides the navigation bar. The report
the key features of the will lodge but some reports may
App and a summary data require you to choose mandatory
table. slices (on the left hand side of the
report. Slices are used to filter
information.

Click the chevron icon Videos associated

next to the report with the App
category to display a list
of all available reports.

The navigation
Pane displays the
reports categories
2- All these
reports
appear

1- Click on the chevron next to student results,

it will change and faces up.
 Click on the hyperlinked words for more information Sign
Slicers allow you to out
create more focused
reports by selecting Reset to Default Full screen Refresh the
specific values within a Key features To clear all slicers mode icon page
category.
Enlarge individual
Mandatory charts within a report
Slicers

Hover over the

slicers to display
the eraser icon

Optional Slicers Ellipsis – the 3 little dots

Click on the ellipsis

(...) icon to select and
Hold down the apply different
Ctrl Key to select sorting options from
multiple the dropdown menu.
checkboxes. Click These may vary
to clear depending on the
type of chart.
1- Show data 3- Export data
Click on the ellipsis (...) icon Ellipsis – the 3 little dots
To export data
and select the Show data Click Export
feature to display a table.

2-Sort data
Select and apply different
sorting options from the
drop-down menu. These
may vary depending on
the type of chart.
1- Show data 3- Export data
Click on the ellipsis (...) icon Ellipsis – the 3 little dots
To export data
and select the Show data Click Export
feature to display a table.

2-Sort data
Select and apply different
sorting options from the
drop-down menu. These
may vary depending on
the type of chart.
 An app is a dashboard Profile icon When you click Eraser- use the eraser to Reset to Default: to
containing a selection of reports. on it will let you sign out uncheck the checkbox. clear all slices.

The Welcome page is the landing page and contains relevant

Ellipsis – the 3 little dots in the corner of each chart. Reports.
When hovering over these they display the following –
Export Data – export the data to excel. The navigation Pane displays the reports categories
Show Data – increases the size of the chart in focus and
displays the data in a table format under the chart. Can The Chevron: Clicking the chevron expands the category
be flipped to viewed vertically by using the rotating icon and displays the reports associated with each category.
in the top right corner
Sort options – provides the ability to sort the data in a
range of options e.g. descending / ascending, student Slicers – allow users to create focused reports by selecting
name, score. specific values within a category e.g. student name, gender,
aboriginality, scholastic year etc. Slicers support both single
and multiple selections. Hold down the control [CTRL] key to
select multiple checkboxes.
The Focus Mode is also located here next to the Ellipsis
and maximises the size of the chart without a data table. Slicers are used to filter information.
Click Back to Report to return to the original view.
Activity

Understanding
growth report
 Students by Growth Type

Step 1 slicers are mandatory

Click a report to
open it (student
Growth)

9 Green

Step 2 slicers are optional

Slicers are used to filter information.

 Key features

Slicers allow you to This bar graph highlights the percentage of students within each growth area.
create more focused
reports by selecting
specific values within a
category.
Length of the line shows growth

Slicers

Red: Negative
Green: At or Growth
Above Expected The red line/purple
Growth represents the base
year score (e.g. N3
when comparing
Yellow: Below between N3 and N5).
Expected
Growth Blue: No Prior
Student growth for 9 Yellow Score Growth
Students with a blue bar do not have a score in the base year. This could mean they
were absent from the base NAPLAN assessment, were not living in Australia at the
time, or there may be a data error in the source system.

Yellow growth Red growth

represents represents Green: Students
The red line/purple represents the base year
students who students who whose growth is
score (e.g. N3 when comparing between N3 and
grew but did not obtained a lower green have achieved
N5).
achieve the level score in the expected growth
Each column represents the growth between the
of growth growth year base year and the growth year for one student .
required for compared to the
expected growth. base year.

Back
Teacher: If I had 8 oranges in one hand and 10
apples in the other hand, what would I have?

Student: Big hands!

 Online Item Analysis
These reports allow staff to analyse NAPLAN results at the item
level. The analysis allows for comparison between years, students,
school and the state.
Curriculum link Question link Teaching strategy link
 Part 3- Practice time
-Student scores and bands reports
-Growth report
-Item analysis report

Demonstrate first and

then give staff time to
practice
HOW MUCH IS YOUR NAME
WORTH?
QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
TIME
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 By Zani Alam
Thomas Reddall High School
16/5/23