Quantitative Sub-Committee - Mission Statement
- Review existing quantitative information collected and analyzed at each school
- Determine effectiveness of current analysis
- Is the information analyzed at all? Should it be?
- Is the analysis done in a timely fashion?
- Does the appropriate group analyze the information?
- Does another district or school analyze the same quantitative information more effectively that we do?
- Determine effectiveness of current use
- Does the analysis result in any improvements in the classroom?
- Do we share our analysis with the appropriate audiences?
- Determine comprehensiveness of current information
- What aspects of school quality are not measured by the quantitative information we are currently collect?
- Is some of the information we are required to collect unhelpful?
- Is there a way we can use the quantitative information we are required to collect in a more effective way?
- Review best practices in quantitatve information collection
- Identify comparable schools or districts who are making effective use of quantitative information
- Identify comparable professions (i.e. medicine, social service agencies, colleges and universities) who are making effective use of quantitative information
- Determine quantitative information teachers would value in meeting individual student needs
- Identify existing quantitative information teachers rely on to improve and individualize instruction
- Identify additional quantiative information teachers would like to have to improve and individualize instruction
Examples of Quantitative Information:
- Standardized test results
- data required by State (i.e. attendance, suspensions, drop-out rates; special education incidence rates, etc)
- local curriculum assessments
