Activity Directions: Getting Started Instruction: Analyze Data for Examining Current Practices

Purpose: To make initial inferences about current instructional practices.

Time

60 minutes or more

Preparation

Note: Teams are highly encouraged to complete Activity Directions: Examine Current Instruction before this activity. Refer to this Handout: Planning Chart for a list of possible data sources.

1. Schedule the leadership team and others to participate in this activity.
2. Review the Handout: Data Analysis Protocol.
3. Assemble all data collected for examining current practices as well as data displays for each set of data. (For more on data displays, see Activity Directions: Data Displays).

Directions

1. Ask participants to read the data and make notes regarding observations.
2. Provide an overview of the Handout: Data Analysis Protocol.
3. Follow the protocol to analyze the data.
4. Keep the data, as well as notes on observations, reflection, and important findings, for comparisons in Actions 4 and 5 (research on effective practices and selecting instructional practices for implementation.)