E-raamat: Using Data to Improve Student Learning in School Districts

Foreword		xiii
Preface		xv
Introduction
Introduction		1	(8)
The Importance of Data		2	(2)
Barriers to Using Data		4	(1)
The Purposes of this Book		5	(1)
The Structure of this Book		6	(1)
Summary		7	(2)
What Data Are Important?
What Data Are Important?		9	(20)
Levels of Analysis		12	(7)
Input/Process/Output		19	(2)
Summary: Focusing the Data		21	(2)
Study Questions		23	(4)
Summary		27	(1)
On the CD		27	(2)
Getting Started
On Data Analysis for Continuous Improvement		29	(12)
Analyzing Data Using a Continuous Improvement Planning Model		31	(1)
Continuous Improvement Planning via a School or District Portfolio		31	(5)
Study Questions		36	(3)
Summary		39	(1)
On the CD		40	(1)
Analyzing the Data
Who Are We?		41	(76)
Our Example District: Canyon View School District		44	(61)
Study Questions		105	(1)
What I Saw in the Example		106	(3)
Summary		109	(1)
Typical Demographic Data to Gather		110	(3)
On the CD		113	(4)
Analyzing the Data
How Do We Do Business?		117	(86)
Our Example District: Canyon View School District		119	(9)
Study Questions: District CIC Assessment		128	(1)
What I Saw in the Example: District CIC Assessment		129	(68)
Study Questions: District Questionnaires		197	(1)
What I Saw in the Example: District Questionnaires		198	(2)
Summary		200	(1)
On the CD		200	(3)
Analyzing the Data
Where Are We Now?		203	(84)
How Can School Districts Measure Student Learning?		205	(13)
Grades		218	(2)
Analyzing the Results, Descriptively		220	(4)
Analyzing the Results, Inferentially		224	(4)
Our Example District: Canyon View School District		228	(54)
Study Questions		282	(1)
What I Saw in the Example		283	(2)
Summary		285	(1)
On the CD		285	(2)
Analyzing the Data
What Are the Gaps? What are the Root Causes of the Gaps?		287	(38)
Our Example District: Canyon View School District		290	(19)
What are the Root Causes of Canyon View's Gaps?		309	(7)
Review of the Implications		316	(3)
Study Questions		319	(1)
What I Saw in the Example		320	(1)
Summary		321	(1)
On the CD		322	(3)
Analyzing the Data
Where Do We Want to Be? How Can We Get to Where We Want to Be?		325	(26)
Our Example District: Canyon View School District		326	(18)
Summary		344	(1)
On the CD		345	(6)
Analyzing the Data
Conclusions and Recommendations		351	(14)
What the Example Shows		352	(2)
What School District Leaders Can Do		354	(4)
Data Warehouses		358	(2)
Who Does the Data Analysis Work?		360	(1)
Summary		361	(1)
Recommendations		362	(1)
On the CD		363	(2)
Appendix A: Overview of the CD Contents		365	(12)
Appendix B: Continuous Improvement Continuums for Districts		377	(10)
Appendix C: Continuous Improvement Continuums for Schools		387	(10)
Glossary of Terms		397	(18)
References and Resources		415	(10)
Index		425	(4)
End-User License Agreement		429	(3)
CD-ROM Installation Instructions		432

Victoria L. Bernhardt, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Education for the Future Initiative, a not-forprofit organization whose mission is to build the capacity of all schools at all levels to gather, analyze, and use data to continuously improve learning for all students. She is also a Professor in the Department of Professional Studies in Education, College of Communication and Education, at California State University, Chico, currently on leave. Dr. Bernhardt is the author of the following books: - A four-book collection of using data to improve student learningUsing Data to Improve Student Learning in Elementary Schools (2003); Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Middle Schools (2004); Using Data to Improve Student Learning in High Schools (2005); and Using Data to Improve Student Learning in School Districts (2005). Each book shows real analyses focused on one education organizational level and provides templates on an accompanying CD-Rom for leaders to use for gathering, graphing, and analyzing data in their own learning organizations. - Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement (First Edition, 1998; Second Edition, 2004) helps learning organizations use data to determine where they are, where they want to be, and how to get theresensibly, painlessly, and effectively. - The School Portfolio Toolkit: A Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation Guide for Continuous School Improvement, and CD-Rom (2002), is a compilation of over 500 examples, suggestions, activities, tools, strategies, and templates for producing school portfolios that will lead to continuous school improvement. - The Example School Portfolio (2000) shows what a completed school portfolio looks like and further supports schools in developing their own school portfolios. - Designing and Using Databases for School Improvement (2000) helps schools and districts think through the issues surrounding the creation and uses of databases established to achieve improved student learning. - The School Portfolio: A Comprehensive Framework for School Improvement (First Edition, 1994; Second Edition, 1999). This first book by the author assists schools with clarifying the purpose and vision of their learning organizations as they develop their school portfolios. Dr. Bernhardt is passionate about her mission of helping all educators continuously improve student learning in their classrooms, their schools, their districts, and states by gathering, analyzing, and using actual dataas opposed to using hunches and gut-level feelings. She has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and conducts workshops on the school portfolio, data analysis, data warehousing, and school improvement at local, state, regional, national and international levels.