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Teacher-level Carousel Exercise

NRS Webinar - January 2007

AIR Staff: Natalia Pane

Today

• Background (3 min)

• Walk through Excel file (10 min)

• Web resource review (2 min)

• Open for comments, ideas, others’ experiences (10 min?)

• Close

Background

• Summer 2006 Data Detective Trainings’ Data Carousel exercise– Poster-size charts of data from 5 sites

showing:• Completion rates three-year trend• Completion rates by level• Numbers with both pre and post tests • Timing of tests• Efficiency (cost per outcome)

Background

– Part 1: • Participants divided into 5 groups• Each begins at one wall chart

– Write observations, possible causes, and next steps– Spend 3 minutes per graph– Cycle to next graph– When return to first graph, report observations on that

graph to the group

Numbers of Students Completing One or More ABE Level PY 2004-05

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Intermediate HighIntermediate LowBeginning BasicBeginning Literacy

Intermediate High 588 1597 2294 2434 3428

Intermediate Low 672 1624 1249 2175 2721

Beginning Basic 498 1212 539 1572 1927

Beginning Literacy 1236 697 1437 53 529

Marple Meadows Fells Point Poirot Holmestead Wimseyville

Background

– Part 2: • Each group assigned one site (e.g., Holmestead)• Review each graph again, but focus on this site• Report out story of this site

• Detailed in facilitators’ notes

• Questions?

Why new?

• People requested– Teacher/class level– More data!

Teacher-level carousel exercise

(Excel file sent early this week)

• Tabs:– Contents– Blue tabs: Class comparisons (same level)– Green tabs: Sam Spade’s class only– Yellow tabs: Student-level data by class

(not comprehensive)

Teacher-level carousel exercise

Classes named for teachers:– Sam Spade– Kay Scarpetta– Philip Marlowe– Jessica Fletcher– Gil Grissom

Teacher-level carousel exercise

Excel file walk through….

Total Numbers of Students With and Without Pre and Post Test Data in Each Class PY 2005

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Sam Spade

Jessica Fletcher

Philip Marlowe

Kay Scarpetta

Gil Grissom

Number of Students

Pre-tested but < 40 hours

Have Both Pre and Posttest

Missing Pre, Post, or Both

Numbers of Students Who Have the Status of "Unemployed" and Who Set Employment as a Goal by Class

PY 2005

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Sam Spade Jessica Fletcher Philip Marlowe Kay Scarpetta Gil Grissom

# Students

# Unemployed

# Set Goal of Employment

# Achieved Goal

Teacher-level carousel exercise

Additional files:

• Wall chart MS Word file

• Handouts MS Word file

Sample pages from wall chart file

Teacher-level carousel exercise

• Options for exercises:– Repeat process from summer training using

blue tabs (compare classes)– Use only green tabs; repeat process for Part

1, then Part 2 all tell the story of the Spade classroom by looking across the graphs

• Classroom data supports further inquiry

Website resourceshttp://www.nrsweb.org/trainings/events/2006smmr.aspx

• Summer 2006 Data Detective Training Carousel exercise– Excel file– Handouts– Facilitators’ notes

• Teacher-level– Excel file– Handouts– Wall charts

Next Steps

• Note: Exercises NOT pilot tested!

• Modify and share with us!

• Other examples you developed?

Open mic

• Thoughts?

• Comments?

• Questions?

• Suggestions?

• Experiences?

• Other tools developed by you/your state?