Data Driven Decision Making for Improvement in Reading

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Data Driven Decision Making for Improvement in
Reading
Data Driven Decision Making for Improvement in
Reading

• Darlene Higginbotham
• Mike Melton
• Chad Hudson

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Goal

• Improvement in Reading Scores for Special
  Education Students on PACT

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Teaching Strategies

• Direct Instruction (10 years)
• SRA Corrective Reading
• SRA Reading Mastery
• SIM Strategy DISSECT
• (Strategic Intervention Model)
• Assistive Technology
• Modifications and Accommodations

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Available Student Data

• Identified Area of Disability
• MAP Scores (Measures of Academic Progress)
• PACT Scores
• Standards Based Classroom Test Scores
• SRA Data
• Intellectual Functioning

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Needed Student Data

• Points from the next level on PACT
• Effect of currently used Modifications/Accommodati
  ons

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Merging Data
Student Data (IEP)
PACT Modification Report
PACT Data Disks
Custom Microsoft Access Database
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Testing Form

• We added to our handwritten form the following
• IQ Ranges
• Free or Reduced lunch
• Grade
• Area of Disability
• Accommodations/Modifications
• Points away from the next level on PACT

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Success Stories
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Contact Information

• Darlene Higginbotham
• Cherokee County School District
• P. O. Box 460
• Gaffney, SC 29342
• 864-902-3573
• darlene.higginbotham_at_gw.cherokee1.k12.sc.us

• Mike Melton
• Cherokee County School District
• P. O. Box 460
• Gaffney, SC 29342
• 864-902-3559
• mike.melton_at_gw.cherokee1.k12.sc.us

Chad Hudson Cherokee County School District P. O.
Box 460 Gaffney, SC 29316 864-902-29342 chad.hudso
n_at_gw.cherokee1.k12.sc.us