Lesson: Assessing Your Local Education Agency's Data Quality - Introduction

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• As a means of reviewing the objectives, have participants revisit the Before column of Before...After...Next (BAN) Chart to note progress. If participants did not do the What is a Culture of Quality Data? lesson prior to this one, have them fill in the Before column of the BAN Chart from that lesson.)
• List the steps in the process from the time a teacher enters a grade in the classroom record (paper or electronic) until a final grade appears on a transcript. What needs to be done? Who touches the data? What are the likely places for errors to occur? Have participants think/pair/share their responses and report out where errors are likely to occur.

Lesson Resources for the Introduction

• Before...After...Next (BAN) Chart (6 KB) (also used in the lesson, What is a Culture of Quality Data?)

Supplementary Resources for the Introduction

• Discussion starters
  • Describe the steps leading up to student-data reporting required by the state and the consequences of inaccuracies in that data.
  • Describe the consequences of bad data for scheduling or assessments.