School Improvement in Maryland

Data Analysis

Analyzing Your State Assessment Data

AYP | MSA | HSA | Alt-MSA

The data results from school, district, and state performance on the MSA, Mod-MSA, Alt-MSA, HSA, and AYP are graphed in this section. Analyzing your performance on these state assessments will help you identify gaps between your school's performance and AYP/state targets. Low performance areas will help you set priorities for your school improvement goals.

Analyzing Data for Students with Disabilities (offsite)

The data results from schools, districts and state performance for students with disabilities as well as the results and compliance indicators used to evaluate the effectiveness of special education programs and services are included in this section. These data assist state, district, and local school personnel in identifying better ways to meet the needs of students with disabilities.


In This Section:
  • Data results for your school
  • Guided process to analyze your data
  • AYP Tutorials
  • How to lead the data discussion

In This Section:
  • Data used to analyze the performance of students with disabilities
  • Use of data to improve student performance

Data Explorer

Analyze interesting assessment data with this multi-media data explorer.

RECENT TUTORIALS



Analyzing Your Classroom Data

Monitoring Student Progress

In This Section:
  • Developing a monitoring plan
  • Examining your monitoring data
  • Using your monitoring data
  • Graphing you classroom data

Schools need to monitor student progress to ensure that all students are successful in attaining state and district standards. Teachers need to assess the indicators they are responsible for teaching on an ongoing basis so that they will know where their students are at any given time in relationship to those indicators being monitored. Teachers need to regularly ask these three questions:

  • Where are my students?
  • What evidence do I have to know that?
  • What do I plan to do about it?

 

Examining Student Work

Though teachers have always examined student work as part of their grading process, the new focus on accountability and standards has driven a more structured and collaborative examination of student work. The focus of the examination has shifted from a summative evaluation of student performance to a to a diagnostic evaluation of student performance to inform instruction.

In This Section:
  • How do you know what students know?
  • What do experts say?
  • How do you agree on what you are looking for?
  • How do you diagnose student performance to inform instruction?
  • Examining Student Work Protocol