User's Guide: Table of Contents

Introduction

• Welcome to the third annual publication of Information Works!
• Information Works! continues to evolve
• Description of resources available at this website
• What the school charts include
• The principal sources of the data for Information Works!
• When data is statistically unreliable

Field #1: Assessment elements

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• All state tests now have the same achievement levels and descriptors
• Test subscales
• RI Health and RI Writing
• The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
• Percent of test-takers in college-bound programs

Field #2: Statistically generated performance range/actual performance

• What you are looking at
• The question mark
• What you are looking for
• Statistically generated performance models
• Informing the "value-added" discussion
• The Rhode Island model
• Assessment participation rate as used in the RI model
• Special to the district reports
• Special to the state report

Field #3: Demographic profile

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• Demographic characteristics
• Special to the district and state reports

Field #4: Performance by student characteristics

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• Note the extra field (Other)
• *Specific to the Web

Field #5: School highlights

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• *Specific to the Web

Field #6: Selected SALT survey findings (teacher responses)

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• No SALT survey standards
• Choosing indicators from among the vast amount of SALT survey data
• Special to the district (student and parent responses)
• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for

Field #7: Various school indicators

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• Indicator measures and definitions
• *Special to the school report on the Web

Field #8: In$ite financial information

• In$ite comes on-line
• Common agreements among all business managers
• Be cautious of the first reported results from any new set of data
• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• Per pupil expenditures
• In$ite category structure and definitions
• Special to the district report
• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• Sources of revenue

Special to the Web: Negotiated achievement targets or adequate yearly progress towards all students reaching state standards

• What you are looking at
• What you are looking for
• Defining progress
• Creating the first data points for achievement trends
• Two kinds of targets
• Target #1: Increasing the percentage of students at or above standard
• Target #2: Reducing the percentage of students at the lowest performance level

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