Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 -EDU 662

What is demographic data?

• It describes the results of our educational system in terms of standardized test results

• It helps us understand what students, parents, teachers, and others think about the learning environment.

• It describes what teachers are doing to get the results they are getting

• It provides descriptive information about the school community, such as enrollment, attendance,ethnicity, and native language.

This question belongs in what category? How many students enrolled in the school this year?

• Perceptions

• Student Learning

• Demographics

• School Processess

How satisfied are parents, students, and/or staff with the learning environment?

• Demographics

• Student Learning

• School Processes

• Perception

Common approaches to understanding perceptions in schools include the use of

• Interviews

• Hear say

• Questionnaires

• Blogs

• Focus Groups

What is the definition of disaggregation?

• Positive elements that can be seen in the data.

• The consolidated implications for demographic data.

• The separation of results into different subgroups that make up the population.

• Combining results to get a comprehensive set of strengths and challenges.

The process of using data from multiple measures to form the basis for developing inferences that drive informed decision-making. What word defines the previous statement?

• Data Literacy

• Data Analysis

• Data Quality

• Data

Benchmark is a detailed description of a specific level of performance _________________________________ or developmental levels. Often represented by scoring rubrics and exemplars of student work.

• from grade to grade

• reliability and validity

• expected of students at particular ages, grades

• that predicts future success

The ability to ask and answer questions about collecting, analyzing, and making sense of data. Data literacy is a characteristic of a __________________________________.

• data-driven school culture

• standards based planning

• standardized norms and principles

• student test score and other measures

Refers to the reliability and validity of collected data.

• Data Literacy

• Data Quality

• Data Analysis

• Developmental Scale Score

Assessments that compare an individual's performance to a specific learning and not to the performance of other test takers.

• Benchmark

• Norm-referenced assessments

• Criterion-referenced assessments

• Performance assessments