Lesson: Developing a Data Calendar - Activities and Instruction

Item

• Go over the state data calendar (and the EDEN Data Calendar, if you so choose), discussing with participants the pertinent deadlines and the steps and amounts of time involved in meeting those deadlines.
• Have each participant pick one of the data types (defined in the Classifying Education Data lesson) for which their district collects data. Then, based on the Data in Schools form completed in the Data Flow and Data Cycles lesson, have participants choose one or two sources containing data of that type and fill out the Collected Data Items chart.
• Starting with the information each participant developed for the Collected Data Items chart, have each fill out the Data Calendar Planning Form.
• Using the completed planning form, have participants outline the steps they would take to develop the information they need to create a data calendar. The outline should include questions to be asked of individuals, the order of the steps to be taken, and an estimate of the time required to complete the calendar.

Lesson Resources for Activities and Instruction

• Collected Data Items (8 KB)
• Data Calendar Planning Form (9 KB)(also used in the Validating and Auditing Data lesson)
• State data calendar (downloaded)

Supplementary Resources for Activities and Instruction

• EDEN Data Calendar (7 KB)
• Sample Data Calendars (104 KB)