IV+Cocumenting+&+Using+Results

Documenting & Using Results
Impact Statement: A school system is successful in meeting this standard when it uses a comprehensive assessment system based on clearly-defined performance measures. The assessment system is used to assess student performance on expectations for student learning, identify gaps between expectations for student learning and student performance, evaluate the effectiveness of curriculum and instruction, and determine interventions to improve student performance. The assessment system yields timely and accurate information that is meaningful and useful to system and school leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders in understanding student performance, system and school effectiveness, and the results of improvement efforts. ** Indicators Rubric ** Please indicate the degree to which the noted practices/processes are in place in the school system. The responses to the rubric should help the school system identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement as well as guide and inform the school system’s responses to the focus questions.
 * STANDARD: The system enacts a comprehensive assessment system that monitors and documents performance and uses these results to improve student performance and system effectiveness. **
 * INDICATORS **
 * INDICATORS **
 * In fulfillment of this standard, the system: ** || ** Not Evident ** || ** Emerging ** || ** Operational ** || ** Highly Functional ** ||
 * 4.1 || Establishes and implements a comprehensive assessment system, aligned with the system’s expectations for student learning, that yields information which is reliable, valid, and bias free  || || || || ||
 * 4.2 || Ensures that student assessment data are used to make decisions for continuous improvement of teaching and learning || || || || ||
 * 4.3 || Conducts a systematic analysis of instructional and organizational effectiveness, including support systems, and uses the results to improve student and system performance || || || || ||
 * 4.4 || Provides a system of communication which uses a variety of methods to report student performance and system effectiveness to all stakeholders || || || || ||
 * 4.5 || Uses comparison and trend data from comparable school systems to evaluate student performance and system effectiveness || || || || ||
 * 4.6 || Demonstrates verifiable growth in student performance that is supported by multiple sources of evidence || || || || ||
 * 4.7 || Maintains a secure, accurate, and complete student record system in accordance with state and federal regulations || || || || ||

Not Evident Little or no evidence exists
===Emerging Evidence indicates early or preliminary stages of implementation of practice === ===Operational Evidence indicates practices and procedures are actively implemented ===

**Focus Questions**
Please respond to the following questions regarding the processes that are in place to support the school system’s implementation of the research-based practices outlined in the indicators rubric. Responses to these questions should support the school system’s self-assessment on the indicators rubric. Be thorough and concise in your answers, focusing on quality and depth over quantity.
 * 1) How is the assessment system currently used throughout the school system and its schools to guide analysis of changes in student performance?
 * 1) What are you doing to ensure that assessment results are timely, relevant, and communicated in a way that can be used by the system, its schools, and stakeholders to aid the performance of individual students?
 * 1) How are data used to understand and improve overall effectiveness of the school system and its schools?
 * 1) How are staff members across the system and its schools trained to understand and use data to impact teaching and learning in the classroom?