Using Student Performance Data to Inform Instructional Practice: Lessons from Cincinnati

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Using Student Performance Data to Inform
Instructional Practice Lessons from Cincinnati

• Council of Great City Schools
• Chicago, Illinois
• July 16, 2009

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Integrated Strategy

• Benchmark Assessments
• Reading and Math 2003
• Science and Social Studies 2004
• Major revisions starting in 2005 just in time
  development schedule
• District Dashboard
• Central Office 2003
• Principals Fall 2005
• Teachers Fall 2005
• Students Fall 2009

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Benchmark Assessments

• Beginning in 2007 state testing done in late
  April early May previously March
• Pacing aligned to state standards and assessment
  schedule
• School year starts in mid-August and ends in May
• Assessments based on pacing for instructional
  period
• not cumulative
• not practice tests
• Developed by outside consultants and district
  teachers

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Benchmark Assessments

• Reading and Math
• Grades k-2 quarterly
• Grades 3-8 pretest and 4 benchmarks prior to
  state testing
• Grades 9-11 semester exams
• Science and Social Studies
• Grades 3,4,6,7 quarterly
• Grade 5 and 8 pretest and 4 benchmarks prior to
  state testing
• Grades 9-11 semester exams

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Benchmark Revisions

• First major revision
• Assessments not aligned to curriculum
• Minor revisions
• As pacing is revised
• Teacher input
• Next revision
• Ohio revising content standards
• Completed by June 2010
• expect OAT and standards to be out of alignment
  for a couple of years
• Identify grades/subjects/strands where we are not
  making adequate progress
• Usage and perceptions
• Financial Considerations

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Dashboard

• Developed In-House
• Decision July 2005 to expand from central office
  to principals and teachers
• On-line in September 2005
• Teachers were not receiving benchmark assessment
  results
• Cost Effective Solution vendors were expensive
  and not product ready
• Maintained In-House
• Flexible
• Very quick to add new reports and functions
• Expanding to student and parents Fall 2009
• Updated nightly
• Cost Effective

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Cincinnati Public Schools Dashboard

• The CPS Dashboard includes
• Benchmark Assessments (district, school,
  classroom, student levels)
• State Achievement, Graduation, and Diagnostic
  Tests
• Model Lessons, Intervention Strategies, Previous
  OAT/OGT Test Items
• Attendance
• Discipline
• Needs Assessments
• One Plans
• Classroom Walkthroughs
• Customer Service Surveys
• Financial Dashboard
• Pyramid of Interventions and Positive School
  Culture
• Accountability Calculator (Full Academic Year
  calculator)
• The CPS Dashboard was custom developed by CPS
  staff using Microsoft ASP.NET technology and
  Oracle database. Development began in May 2005
  and the Dashboard was released to academic staff
  in September 2005. Ongoing enhancements are
  added monthly.

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