Barbara,
 
That is a great idea and if you can break it down even further -- by
site or class, for example -- you can get even better insights.

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Barbara,

In addition to the other great ideas discussed yesterday, I'd like to
offer an additional way to analyze NRS data on the local level. If you
divide the contact hours by the number of enrolled students in each
educational functioning level (EFL) on Table 4, you will get a rough
idea of how long students in each EFL are staying in class. If you find
that students in one of the levels - say beginning literacy - are
leaving before they have enough hours to post-test or make a level gain,
you may wish to examine further the instructional strategies,
curriculum, and professional development needs of staff serving those
learners. If the average contact hours are high, but level gains in that
EFL are low, once again, a review of assesssment, instruction and
curriculum may reveal specific professional development needs for your
program.

Barbara Hofmeyer

Coaching Consultant for

Indiana DOE, Division of Adult Education

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:25:04 -0600, Barbara Arguedas wrote 

> Hello Tina, 

> I wonder if you could say more about what exact data you use to see

what your teachers need.  Is it attendance or level gain, or something
else?  

>   

> We use attendance data to track total hours students are attending and

to determine if they are eligible to post-test (minimum of 40 hours in
NM).  If students attend at least 75% of the potential hours, then the
student is eligible to get a certificate at the end of the session
(usually a 12-week session that meets 5 hours each week).  We also see
what the overall retention rate is by teacher as well as the post-test
rate and the level gain rate.  I agree that these could indicate a need
for training. 

>   

> We are interested in other ways that programs use data to help with

retention.  Thank you. 

>   

> Barbara Arguedas 

> Santa Fe Community College 

> Santa Fe, NM 

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> Hi there, 

> 

>   I like to use state database information to show me which teachers

are needing assistance and which teachers are modeling good practices.
The database is certainly not a final word, as we all have had groups of
students that performed well or poorly regardless of instruction.  The
data is a good place to show red flags, however. Student assessments and
staff self-assessments are also great for predicting professional
development needs. Data can also help us see what people groups we are
reaching with advertising, and which people groups are not. Then we can
create new means of recruitment for our program. 

> 

> Tina 

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> Tina Luffman 

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> It is a pleasure to be a guest on the list this week and my thanks to

Marie for asking me and organizing this. 

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> There is a strong federal initiative to promote use of data for

program improvement at the state and level.  Through the National
Reporting system project which I direct, we have conducted several
training and technical assistance activities over the past 4 years on
this topic, including two general training seminars on using data and
more specific ones on promoting adult education programs, monitoring,
developing state and local report cards. All of the training materials
and other information on the topic, including sample work from states,
is available on the NRSWeb website, which Marie has referenced. 

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> All of the other guests have done a great deal of interesting work and

many of them attended our training (and Sandy Strunk served as a trainer
for us a few years back). 

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> I will be interested to get your questions and learn of your

experiences, as well as the responses from the other guests. 

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> Good morning, afternoon and evening to you all.   

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> Today begins our discussion on Using Data for Program Improvement.  I

have pasted the announcement below - please note that there have been
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server.  For now, you have the announcement below and as soon as I
arrange access to the Power Points, I'll let you know.  If you received
the original announcement that I sent, you have one of the attachments
already ("Using Data Effectively DCornellier").  Thank you for your
patience with this. 

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well as subscribers, may not be present on-line with us today and this
is fine - they will catch up with us tomorrow.  For anyone ready to
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