Background In my work as an Ohio school data consultant, while at Youngstown City Schools, I had the honor of being a member of cohort 9 of the Strategic Data Project (SDP). This 2-year fellowship has not only taught me the basics of educational data governance, analytics, and statistical modeling, but it also has given me...
The Danger of One Measure – Proficiency vs. Growth
As most of us in the Ohio school data analysis world understand, “proficiency” is King. That is, whether a student is performing at grade level, and more importantly, what percentage of students are performing at grade level. For better or worse, this measure is how we are graded, both by internal and external agencies....