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ARCC's
Assessment Analysis Overview
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August 2010
I Haven't Been
Away...I've Been Busy!
All 2010 MCA II assessments data has been downloaded
from MDE. Excel workbooks are ready for all
participating districts and the assessments data
warehouse has been updated.
ARCC's Annual Assessments Workshop will be held on
Thursday, August 26th from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm.
Registration will start at 9:00 am. Lunch will be
served. You'll be given CDs with your updated
assessments data. Bring your laptop, we're gonna
play with data, review procedures and see what's new.
Overview of Recent Developments
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A 'stand-alone' version of SQL Reports for
Assessments has been developed and tested. The
new product is available now for any interested
Minnesota Public School District.
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Thanks to Kerry Juntenen and Jenny Weise at
Hermantown School District, an MCA/MAP report is now
available to interested districts using NWEA MAP
tests.
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Charts are working and have been integrated into use
with the MCA/MAP reports.
Welcome Willow River!
It's
great to have you onboard and we're all looking forward
to working with your district!
April - 2010
ARCC Data Warehouse Expands Storage to NWEA MAP Tests
We've been working with Hermantown School District's
NWEA MAP tests for awhile now and have written reports
that compare subject percentiles for mathematics and
reading against the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments.
ARCC continues to maintain a neutral perspective
regarding any predictive qualities from the MAP tests,
but if your district uses MAP tests and wants to have
access to the new reports, please contact Dale Nielsen.
What's The Best Way to Store Assessments Data?
...Good question! I don't know if we'll ever have
a really great answer for that. But believe me,
it's something I'm preoccupied with. Kevin
Lindquist is working on a data import script that will
parse MAP data so that it can reside in common tables
with your Minnesota testing data. So far things
are looking promising. If successful, this should
facilitate a much simpler way to approach data with
reporting tools. Future unknowns of course would
include other test types and their native formatting,
for instance, the AIMS tests.
One issue I've run into since working with MAP data is
procuring historical data. Apparently, NWEA
doesn't store 'old' data for districts that goes back
very far in time. It would be nice to be able to
load that data as far back as 2006 so that an historical
comparison might be observed against your Minnesota
tests but we can only work with what we have.
Kevin and I jointly decided that 'best practice' will be
to store a unaltered copies of downloaded original
testing source data in your assessments folder on the
server.
March - 2010
System-agnostic Teacher
Assessments Roster Now Available
PowerSchool, JMC, Skyward and other systems can now take
advantage of ARCCs SQL Assessments Tools. Some
student systems will allow the URLs to be internally
scripted to that the reports appear to be native to the
system. If that cannot be done in your system, the
reports can still be accessed on the internet using a
secured session.
ARCCs assessments reports are an inexpensive means to an
end - giving teachers what they've been asking for to
analyze assessments data as an aid in developing
personal learning plans for students.
If you're interested in finding
out more about assessment analysis for your district please
contact Dale Nielsen at ARCC. Contact information is shown
at the upper right of this screen.
Invitation
to ARCC Member Districts:
If you'd like your district data
prepared and graphed for internal use, please contact Dale
Nielsen.
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