STEP 5: VERIFY OUTCOMES

Congratulations on Nearly Completing Your Pathway!

You created a plan to sensibly and defensibly measure your students’ achievement

You have collected, analyzed, and acted on those data…

Now that it’s the end-of-year, it’s time to reflect

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Or is

it?

Don’t Be This Guy Celebrating Too Soon!

88% avg. standards mastery

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Can’t Celebrate When Only 1 Standard Was Assessed!

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Don’t Be This Guy Celebrating Too Soon!

1.56 years of avg. reading growth

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Can’t Celebrate When Not All The Data Is Inputted!

Missing baseline

data!

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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200…

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Until You Verify Your End-Of-Year Data!

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Before you reflect on EOY results, you must make sure you have treated your data with care

That’s what we call Verifying Outcomes

Treating your data with care requires that they be…

Honest Accurate

Complete

Error-Free

HONEST Data

Are an honest reporting of what your students actually accomplished

This means…

• Not rounding up running record scores when students are “close”

• Administering make-up exams for students who missed assignments rather then entering fake data

• Keeping all standards in your tracker even if you didn’t get to teach all of them

• Avoiding rounding up to meet a target (such as the Proficient Goal)

ACCURATE Data

Reflect your initial Pathway and any changes that may have occurred

This means…

• Finalizing your roster to include students who joined your class mid-year

• Finalizing your roster to remove students who were with you less than 50% of instructional time

• Your data reflect outcomes from aligned, high-quality, rigorous assessments

• You scored all assessments with fidelity

COMPLETE Data

Contain all the data necessary to complete your Pathway

This means…

• You have collected at least four rounds of data for every student present on your roster throughout the year

• For standards mastery Pathways each standard has been assessed

• All standards are assessed with the adequate rigor and at-bats necessary to make a valid inference about student learning

• You have included your name and other relevant info within your tracker

ERROR-FREE Data

Have been checked and double checked to make sure no errors exist

This means…

• Ensuring no typos exist in any cells

• Ensuring no errors exist in any formulas

• Ensuring no formatting errors exist

• Your tracker has been saved successfully

The Next Activities Walk Through Step 5: Verify Outcomes

You’ll Verify Outcomes

You’ll Verify Outcomes BEFORE Reporting Outcomes

Data that have not been verified send the wrong message

about what has been achieved

Like an umpire who makes a bad call, it sends the wrong signal about what happened

and can send the wrong message to…

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our students our students’ parents

our colleagues our advisers ourselves

Treating your data with care is a critical part of your role as a teacher

and a graduate student

Your students deserve it!

Honest Accurate

Complete

Error-Free