This document discusses the importance of treating student data with care when reflecting on end-of-year results. It emphasizes that data must be honest, accurate, complete, and error-free in order to draw valid conclusions about student learning and achievement. Specifically, it provides examples of how to ensure data is an honest reporting of student accomplishments, reflects any changes over the course of the year, contains all necessary information, and has been thoroughly checked for errors or inconsistencies. Treating data with care is crucial for appropriately measuring student outcomes and communicating their progress to students, parents, and other stakeholders.

1. TREATING YOUR DATA WITH CARE

2. Congratulations on Completing Your Y1 Pathway!

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

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

5. In order to improve your practice, and
increase student learning
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6. Now that it’s the end-of-year, it’s time to reflect
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Or is
it?

7. Before you reflect on EOY results, you must
confirm that you have treated your data with care

8. That’s a critical part of Verifying Outcomes

9. Treating your data with care requires that
they be…
Honest Accurate
Complete
Error-Free

10. HONEST Data
Are an honest reporting of what your students actually accomplished
This means…
• Inputting the correct data in
your tracker file
• Scoring running records
precisely, even when students
are “close” to the next level
• Keeping all standards in your
tracker even if you didn’t get to
teach all of them

11. 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
• Scoring all assessments with
fidelity
• That your data reflect
outcomes from aligned, high-
quality, rigorous assessments

12. COMPLETE Data
Contain all the data necessary to complete your Pathway
This means…
• Including your full name and
other relevant info within your
tracker
• Collecting at least two rounds
of data for every student on
your roster
• For standards mastery
Pathways, ensuring each
standard has been assessed
• Ensuring standards are
assessed with the adequate
rigor and at-bats necessary to
make a valid inference about
student learning

13. 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
• That your tracker has been
saved successfully

14. Data that have not
been verified may
send the wrong
message about what
has been achieved

15. Like an umpire who makes a bad call, it sends
the wrong signal about what happened
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16. and can send the wrong message to…
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our students our students’ parents
our colleagues our advisers ourselves

17. Treating your data with
care is a critical part of
your role as a teacher
and a graduate student

18. Your students deserve it!
Honest Accurate
Complete
Error-Free