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Self Assessment Answer Key

A: No Action - Either not addressed, or no specific information or no particular perception or awareness of this area is present.

B: Early Awareness of the Area - The district is working toward forming policies and actions.  

C: Developing - Policy and/or actions have been established. The district has begun actively working toward achieving its goals for this area.

D: Proficient - Plans, actions and responsible parties are part of ongoing operations for this area. There is an established, ongoing program yielding observable, positive results.

E. Optimal - Our program is a model in this area. It attracts attention from the community and produces exceptional results.

F. Don't Know - I do not have sufficient information to assess my district's performance in this area.

How Ready Are You?
A Special Tool for School District Leaders To Assess Readiness to Use Data Effectively

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched its Data-driven Decision Making initiative, Vision to Know and Do, in February 2003 to help school district leaders use data effectively in decision-making. 

As part of this initiative, CoSN provides districts with a tool to determine their readiness to use data-driven decision making for both accountability and continuous school improvement. 

Download CoSN's Revised Data Self-Assessment

This valuable revised survey is now available for download. Click here and download the newly revised survey to determine your institutional readiness to lead a data driven culture.  Or, you may use the original online self assessment below which is being replaced with the newly revised survey tool this coming October in an easy to use online program.

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1. The district has involved educators in the process of identifying and creating an inventory of data elements that must be captured to meet school and district reporting requirements.





2. The district information systems are currently capturing all data necessary to meet teacher, counselor, building administrator and central office administrator reporting requirements.





3. The district regularly surveys teachers, staff, and administrators to find out what information they need to make informed decisions and district collection and distribution of information is up to date.





4. The district is able to "easily" extract the data necessary to meet teacher, counselor, building administrator and central office administrator needs in a format useful for analysis and decision-making needs.





5. The district is confident that 95% of the data that is captured by the district information systems are accurate.





6. The district has taken steps such as data audits and centralized validation programs to ensure that the data captured by district information systems are accurate.





7. The district is able to provide data necessary to follow trends as well as growth of individual students or cohorts of students over time.





8. The district has a process in place for interpreting the data and for querying relations (e.g. attendance mapped to test scores; supplemental program costs to grades; training workshop participation to student work outputs).





9. The district has a process in place for identifying, recommending and implementing intervention strategies based on data that has been collected and analyzed.





10. The district has a process in place for identifying, recommending and implementing intervention strategies based on data that has been collected and analyzed.





 
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