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A3 Getting Out What You Put In R T I Data School Leadership Team Training Pamela Shannon, School Psychologist 11-05-10 Slide 2 To find more concise tutorials (for printing), go to the Teacher page of the district web site and click on the second line under Software Applications for A3 directions. Slide 3 In the page that pops up, clicking on any of the links under For Teachers will open up a PDF file that you can refer to, print, or save on your computer. Slide 4 X One reason for pulling up A3 data is so that you can fill out the IPST forms and do GAP analysis. The individual student score goes here (red arrow). Here is where the class average goes (blue arrow). The grade level average (black X) cannot be pulled up from a Teacher Dashboard screen. Your ESE Contact (or whoever at your school has school-wide access) will do that for you. The benchmark criteria, sometimes called the target score goes here (green arrow). Slide 5 To open A3 at school, go to the Teachers web page and click on the first item under Software Applications (A3 PMP and A3 Vision). Slide 6 Click on this line at school. Click on A3 HTML Login to use at home. Slide 7 Log in here with the same user name and password you use to log on to your computer. Slide 8 To pull up your class average, you do NOT need to select any filters. Multi-grade teachers will need to select the grade level they wish to view. Slide 9 Click on the down arrow to the right of the Chart field to open the drop-down menu. Slide 10 Select the test you want to see by clicking on it. Slide 11 Select the 1 Year from the drop-down menu next to Window (unless you want to see multiple years). Slide 12 Make sure it says Student Performance. Slide 13 Click the View Chart button. Slide 14 Slide 15 Click on a column to find out more. Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 When you put your cursor over a column, a number pops up to tell you how many students scored in that range. Slide 19 When you click on the range column, it will bring up the list of students who scored in that range. Slide 20 Classmate, Candy Student, Sammy Sample, Sally Slide 21 Classmate, Candy Student, Sammy Sample, Sally These are links to the students Intervention Summary page (where you can open PMPs, if applicable). Slide 22 Classmate, Candy Student, Sammy Sample, Sally You can click on this button to form a group with your highest scoring students to plan for enrichment. Slide 23 You can click on this button to form a group with your low scoring students to make your intervention group. By forming a group, you will be able to do comparisons and pull an average. Slide 24 After closing the group list, you are back at the DRLA scores. Slide 25 To see the DRLA subtest scores, select Reading Proficiency Slide 26 If you click on these columns, they will show the scoring ranges, too, Slide 27 Title I After closing the DRLA scores window, you are back at the Teacher Dashboard. Slide 28 Select FAIR Grades 3 to 12 or FAIR Grades K to 2, depending on your level. Title I Slide 29 When this box pops up, it is like the Windows hourglass. If you click now, it will likely slow you down further. Slide 30 Select the year you want from the drop-down. Next, make sure this says Student Performance. We are going to look at last years FAIR scores for students currently in the teachers class. Slide 31 Click View Chart. Slide 32 You can click on a column to see the score ranges for last years tests, too. Slide 33 To make comparisons, you will want to see the other scores reported for FAIR. Slide 34 Slides 68 to 77 explain why it is best to use scores OTHER THAN percentile ranks for doing comparisons, if possible. Slide 35 Select the desired score type from the drop down menu. Slide 36 Slide 37 Slide 38 Slide 39 Now well see how to access individual students score reports and PMPs. Click Get Students to see the students in your class. Slide 40 Now all of your students show up. You would scroll down to see them. Slide 41 If you want only students in a certain class or subject, you select the appropriate course, term, period, or grade (whichever applies). Slide 42 On the right are links to students Intervention Summary pages Slide 43 To see all of an individual students test scores, find Membership Forms on the right. Then click the Go button. Slide 44 The students current classes, teachers, and schedule is here. Only student behavior info that has been entered in AS400 will be in the Behavior Summary. SStudent Demographic info is at the top. Student Attendance Summary is here. Slide 45 Scrolling down, youll find the scores for all of the tests that have been entered into A3. Slide 46 At the very bottom of the page are the previous years schedule and teachers.. Slide 47 To print the score summary, you can use shortcut keys in Windows: OR Slide 48 Slide 49 When you close the score summary page, you will find will be back at the Intervention Summary. Slide 50 Scroll down toward the bottom, and you will see PMP At-Risk Summary approximately half- way down. Click on the magnifying glass to open the PMP. The red X is to delete the PMP. If you accidentally click the X, a box pops up to ask you if you are sure. Slide 51 If this box pops up, the safest thing to do is to use the back arrow in your browser window to avoid deleting. Slide 52 Back to the Intervention Summary page. We click the magnifying glass to open the PMP. Slide 53 Here is the PMP opened. This one is for reading. Well zoom in so you can see it better. Slide 54 You can open and add information in two ways here. You can click on the magnifying glass. Slide 55 which brings up a box in which you can edit Slide 56 OR you can click on the green plus-sign to add a new diagnostic result. Slide 57 Slide 58 Here you can select the type of diagnostic result or test score you wish to report. Slide 59 You can type what you want to in these fields, and then click OK to save. Slide 60 The teacher added some useful info in the text field to describe the group size, frequency, and minutes. Slide 61 Slide 62 The teacher elected to add documentation of parent involvement (AIP sent home). Slide 63 Underneath the PMP area is where you click to add an Area of Concern, if desired. Slide 64 As with the PMP section, you add a new section with the green plus sign. You can view/edit an existing Area by clicking the magnifying glass. Slide 65 Select your Learning Consideration from the drop-down, and type desired text in the boxes. Click OK to save. Slide 66 The same directions apply to the Meeting section: green plus sign to add, magnifying glass to view/edit. Slide 67 You can also document parent No-shows here. Slide 68 s Here is a brief, basic review of why some score types are preferable to use for making GAP comparisons. Slide 69 s This chart is the familiar Bell Curve. It shows how the various types of scores relate to one another. Slide 70 s Notice that the distance between percentile rank scores is NOT consistent. Slide 71 s The distance between standard scores, scaled scores, and T- scores IS consistent. Slide 72 Here is an example of how using Percentile Scores will generate different GAP results than using other types of scores. A percentile score of 40 (target percentile for FAIR) correlates approximately to a standard score of 96. Slide 73 The student score of 16 percentile correlates to a standard score of 85. Slide 74 Dividing the Target score by the student score yields the GAP. Slide 75 Better scores to use Percentage Scores Standard Scores Lexile Scores Raw Scores (if enough items) Slide 76 If you have no scores other than percentile scores, you can Convert the percentile scores to standard scores and then figure the GAP. (Your school psychologist can help with that.) You can use the percentile score WITH adequate explanation that a different measure and type of score might yield a very different result. A GAP must be interpreted in light of all the other relevant facts (looking at whole child). Slide 77 This slide can be printed to use as reference when explaining the different types of scores in meetings or in teacher data team. Slide 78 Some Best Practices for IPST Team reviews data in A3 online (data team meetings) to verify accuracy of data on which later eligibility decisions may be made. Availability of computer and Power Point projector at eligibility meetings. Keep sharing, make suggestions, and ask questions. We are all training each other!