Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap : How to Measure Equity in Our Schools

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ISBN: 9780761945093 | 0761945091
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Copyright: 6/25/2002

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This updated edition of Setting Our Sights outlines the five stages for equity reform while clearly explaining research findings and offering practical tools and examples.Â

Foreword: A Strategy to Challenge Inequality

Anne Wheelock

Introduction

New to the Second Edition

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

About the Author

xxi

Part I. Setting Our Sights on Student Achievement

(68)

The Achievement Gap: Framing Our Minds to Set Our Sights

(10)

The Achievement Gap

(1)

Some Other Considerations

(1)

Rethinking the Issues: Creating the Conditions for Moving Forward

(4)

Stages in the Change Process: How Data Offer Help and Hope

(3)

Building Dissatisfaction and Killing the Myths: Examining Data as a First Step Toward Motivating Reform

(21)

The Broader Picture: Societal Implications of Undereducating Certain Populations

(6)

Similar Aspirations, Unequal Chances: Data to Dispel Myths and Demonstrate Differential Expectations and Learning Opportunities for Students

(1)

Who Has the Opportunity to Go to College?

(5)

Changing Practices and Achievement Patterns: Exploding Myths That Perpetuate Underachievement

(6)

Data in the Reform Process: How and Why

(19)

Key Roles for Data

(1)

Assessing Data Use and Access

(4)

Stages of the Data User Process

(9)

Using Technology to Make Strong Presentations

(3)

Building Leadership and Data Teams

(16)

Establishing the Need: A First Step for Highly Resistant Schools

(1)

Creating the Team: The First Step in Most Schools

(1)

The Role of the Leadership Team

(1)

Structuring the Leadership Team's Work

(1)

Team Development

(1)

The Data Team: Core to the School's Success in Using Data to Achieve Reform

(1)

Planning for Team Success: Team Self-Assessment of Strengths and Needs

(4)

Assessing Perspectives of Team Effectiveness

(4)

Planning for Team Leadership Development

(2)

Part II. Inquiring About Equity

(202)

Talking About Data

(12)

Why the Need for Dialogue

(2)

Guiding the Dialogue

(8)

Outcomes From Dialogues

(1)

Conducting the Inquiry: Measurement Dimensions and Approaches

(1)

Examining Outcomes

(43)

Looking at the Big Picture

(1)

Outcome Data From Standardized Test Scores: Peeling the Data

(13)

Standardized Tests for College Going

(5)

Monitoring Student Grades

103

(8)

Displaying Middle and High School Course Enrollment and Student Overall Progress in College Preparatory Courses

111

(5)

Outcomes: Student Graduation Rates

116

(3)

College-Going Rates

119

(6)

Nonacademic Measures Related to Outcomes

125

(1)

Assessing Policies and Practices

126

(53)

Part I: Instruments

128

(1)

Assessing Perceptions of Attitudes, Readiness, and Commitment to Reform at the School

128

(8)

Process Indicators

136

(7)

Assessing Institutional Reform in the Academic Culture of Schools

143

(9)

Other Instruments to Assess Equity

152

(1)

Schools' and Districts' Assessments of Delivery of Precollege Guidance

152

(2)

Characteristics of High-Performing and Low-Performing Counseling Programs

154

(3)

Counselor College Preparatory Record Keeping for Individual Students

157

(1)

Which Counselors Are Providing College Access to Students?

157

(3)

Counselor's Plans for Counselees

160

(2)

Part II: Existing School Documents

162

(1)

How Does the Master Schedule Reflect Practices and Goals?

162

(4)

Assessing Documents, Policies, and Practices on How Time Is Used

166

(1)

Examining School Calendars

167

(1)

Teacher Plan Books

167

(1)

Part III: Assessing Equitable Classroom Practices

167

(2)

Survey-The Equitable School Classroom

169

(6)

Teacher Observations

175

(2)

Observing Students in Class and School

177

(1)

Parent and Student Information

178

(1)

Listening to Student and Parent Voices

179

(19)

Student and Parent-Guardian Questionnaires

180

(14)

Aspirations and Reality

194

(3)

Listening to Students' Voices Regarding the Academic Culture of the School

197

(1)

Evaluating Programs and Interventions

198

(20)

Analyses of Efforts to Raise Student Achievement

200

(4)

Assessing Elementary Programs and Practices

204

(4)

Assessing the Improvement of College Preparation and College-Going Rates

208

(8)

Professional Development

216

(2)

Using School Indicators to Answer Critical Questions

218

(31)

How and When to Gather Indicators

219

(1)

Combining Indicators to Answer Critical Questions

220

(19)

Sample Indicator Combinations

239

(10)

Will We Know It When We See It? Visioning, Planning, and Implementation

249

(22)

We Want Our School to Look Like This

252

(4)

Plan for Schoolwide Reform

256

(8)

Will We Know It When We See It? Monitoring for Progress

264

(1)

Planning for Monitoring

265

(2)

Plan for Monitoring the Improvement of College Preparation and College-Going Rates

267

(1)

The Role of the External Resource Person

267

(4)

Resources for Equitable School Reform

271

(9)

Bibliography

280

(15)

References

295

(8)

Index

303

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Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap : How to Measure Equity in Our Schools

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