2. PRAYER FOR GENEROSITY
 Lord, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will.

3. DATA
Where we have been and where we are headed…

4. OUTCOMES FOR THE DAY
 Name the alignment of our Institutional goals
 Examine new data
 Relate new data to content areas

5. WHERE WE HAVE BEEN
 Alignment with Institutional Goals

6. WHERE WE HAVE BEEN
 Alignment with Institutional Goals
 Critical reading data
 Outcomes and Assessments and Critical
Reading
 We all share the responsibility – own discourse
 Focused Departmental conversations

7. DATA IN REVIEW
 HSPT summary data (2010-2014)
 PSAT reading data (2009, 2010, 2011)

8. 75.000
76.000
77.000
78.000
79.000
80.000
81.000
82.000
Class 2010 Class 2011 Class 2012 Class 2013 Class 2014
Reading HSPT - Enrolled
Reading HSPT

9. CRITICAL READING – CLASS 2009
81.6
79.5
75.9
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
1
nationalpercentile
standardized assessment
Critical Reading - Class 2009
HSPT
PSAT (10th)
PSAT (11th)

10. CRITICAL READING – CLASS 2010
81.5
77.6
74.8
70
72
74
76
78
80
82
84
1
nationalpercentile
standardized assessment
Critical Reading - Class 2010
HSPT
PSAT (10th)
PSAT (11th)

11. CRITICAL READING – CLASS 2011
81.6
80.6
77.5
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
1
nationalpercentile
standardized assessment
Critical Reading - Class 2011
HSPT
PSAT (10th)
PSAT (11th)

12. NEW DATA
 PSAT 2009
 Reading

13. DATA DIALOGUE
 Predictions - Before looking at the data make predictions about
what you will observe. Think about what you assume, predict,
wonder, or believe you will learn from the data.
 Observations - Look at the data presented and document your
observations. Remember to record only facts. Think about what
you observe, what patterns you notice, and what you may be
surprised to see.
 Inferences - Make inferences regarding the data observed in
step 2.
 Explanations
 Identify additional data needed to confirm or refute explanations
 Possible solutions or responses to the data
 Identify data needed to determine whether solutions are working

14. PSAT 2009 CRITICAL READING
 Predictions
 What do you think you will observe from looking
at the data (assume, believe, wonder)?

15. EXPLORING THE READING DATA…TOGETHER!
 Predictions
 Observations
 Spend some time with the data and examine
trends, patterns and surprises.

16. DATA OBSERVATIONS
 Important discoveries:

17. DATA DIALOGUE
 How can this information be integrated into
departmental conversations about outcomes
and assessment?
 Review the outcomes’ checklist completed spring 2010
 What outcomes were taught by all course teachers?
 Are there embedded critical reading skills within those
outcomes?
 What are the essential reading skills that the students
must have to be successful with the outcome?

19. NEXT STEPS
 August 31: Continue departmental
conversations regarding outcomes,
assessments and critical reading data
 Additional team time week of September 20,
November 1 and March 11

20. NEXT STEPS
 August 31:
 How can this information be integrated into
departmental conversations about outcomes and
assessment?