User's Guide: Table of Contents

Introduction

• Welcome to the 2001 Users Guide

• The All Kids agenda – 
  Turning up the heat on improved accountability for every single child

• Students exempt from the state exams

• Information Works! continues to evolve. 

• Resources available on our website 

• The school charts on the Web

• The Principal Sources of the Data for Information Works!

• When data are statistically unreliable

• An exception to the rule in Field #4

I.  Field #1

Assessment elements

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• No Score

• The Triangle

• “Parental refusal” exemptions to the Health Test

• Test subscales

• The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)

II.  Field #2

Statistically generated performance range /actual performance

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Statistically generated performance models level the playing field

• Statistical Modeling

• The rationale

• The Rhode Island model

• The effect of including “no score” children in the statistical modeling
  * Special to the state section
  * Special to the district reports

III.  Field #3

Demographic profile

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Demographic characteristics

• Eligible for subsidized lunch

• Ethnic background

• Limited English Proficient (LEP):

• Special Education

• Parents’ education
  * Special to the district and State Reports

• Type of Schooling

IV.  Field #4

Achievement over the past three years, by student characteristics

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• General school-functioning at a glance

• Poverty/non poverty

• Multi-racial *note the extra field

V.  Field #5

School highlights

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• School Goals

VI.  Field #6

Selected school climate SALT survey findings 

Elementary

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

Secondary

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Good school climate is an essential platform for improved student achievement

• Every child needs to be known well by at least one adult

• Necessary, but not sufficient

• Middle and High School Climate Chart
  * Special to the State
  * Special to the District

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for
  

VII.  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 Web page 3

VIII.  Field #8

Progress towards targets

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Why are the high schools’ target sub-tests different from middle and elementary

• Setting and meeting targets

• Creating the first data points for achievement trends
  * Special to Web page 3

• Targets for the other subtests

IX.  Field #9

Financial information (per pupil)
Data source: In$ite

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• In$ite’s second year for school level data

• Common agreements among all business managers

• Warning! Be wary of misunderstanding numbers out of context

• Per pupil expenditures

• In$ite category structure and definitions

• Instruction

• Classroom teachers

• Instructional paraprofessionals

• Pupil-use technology and software

• Instructional materials

• Special to the district report

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Sources of revenue