Survey Exercise

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Survey Exercise

• You were just elected to the WERA board. You are
  concerned about a declining budget and the
  effectiveness of some of WERAs activities.
• Take 2 minutes to think individually about the
  areas of interest and constructs to assess, then
  work with table partners to determine 5 rough
  questions and a method/scale to answer each.
• (Report out after break)

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Longitudinal Analysis Exercise
Achievement level
NCLB passed
2002
2003
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Longitudinal Analysis Exercise

• In table groups, add at least 2 more years on
  each side of the trend line and create three
  graphs to illustrate
• NCLB had a positive impact
• NCLB had a negative impact
• NCLB had no impact

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Longitudinal AnalysisMath Helping Corps
Period of assistance
5
Longitudinal AnalysisMath Helping Corps
Period of assistance
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2002 Results (average of 3 tests) WA Achiever
Schools
All other high schools
Correlation -.693R-square .48
State 50.3
State 23.0
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All schools improved by 2006
State 71.0
State 29.4
8
Schools experienced different levels of
improvement since 2002
2006 results
2002 results
2006 state trend
Stevenson
Yelm
Kittitas
2002 state trend
Tonasket
Mariner
West Valley
Foster
Kent-Meridian
Clover Park
Foss
Cleveland
Mabton
Mt Tahoma
Davis
Lincoln