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Data Analysis for the Educational Leader
Each module of this site poses a question and takes you on a brief journey of data exploration using a specific approach or tool. The approaches are direct and visual. The Data Analysis Primer helps you to learn by exploring and doing. Each Data Primer Module has a tutorial and a practice section. Each tutorial section walks you through a graphical approach to a question about data. Each practice section helps you use example data, as well as your own, to build similar graphs and explore their meanings.


 * Module 1: Where Are We?**

The journey of data analysis begins with one simple question: How many students are scoring at each proficiency level (below basic, basic, basic, proficient, goal and advanced)? Typically, one can this answer this question using summative assessments such as the CMT and CAPT results. By converting the percent of students at each proficiency level to the number of students, educators can answer the questions that help connect data to action plans. Questions such as: What is the overall makeup of my school? What should my school-wide goals be? How many intervention teachers do I need?

Put in table

Module 1 converts proficiency percentages to tables that compare groups of students. The visual comparison helps illustrate the variations in student proficiency, calculates aggregate data for goal setting, and supports educators in the construction and implementation of goals and plans that not only connected to data, but driven data. It takes the learner from grade specific percentages to data driven actions.