Standard 5

Using Results for Continuous Improvement

The school implements a comprehensive assessment system that generates a range of data about student learning and school effectiveness and uses the results to guide continuous improvement.

    Indicator 5.1.

  • The school establishes and maintains a clearly defined and comprehensive student assessment system.

    Level 4 .

  • School personnel maintain and consistently use a comprehensive assessment system that produces data from multiple assessment measures, including locally developed and standardized assessments about student learning and school performance. The system ensures consistent measurement across all classrooms and courses. All assessments are proven reliable and bias free. The system is regularly and systematically evaluated for reliability and effectiveness in improving instruction, student learning, and the conditions that support learning.

    Level 3 .

  • School personnel maintain and use an assessment system that produces data from multiple assessment measures, including locally developed and standardized assessments about student learning and school performance. The system ensures consistent measurement across classrooms and courses. Most assessments, especially those related to student learning, are proven reliable and bias free. The system is regularly evaluated for reliability and effectiveness in improving instruction, student learning, and the conditions that support learning.

    Level 2 .

  • School personnel use an assessment system that produces data from multiple assessment measures about student learning and school performance. The system generally provides consistent measurement across classrooms and courses. Some assessments, especially those related to student learning, are proven reliable and bias free. The system is evaluated for effectiveness in improving instruction, student learning, and the conditions that support learning.

    Level 1 .

  • School personnel maintain an assessment system that produces data from assessment measures about student learning and school performance. The system provides a limited degree of consistent measurement across classrooms and courses. Assessments are seldom proven reliable and bias free. The system is rarely or never evaluated for effectiveness in improving instruction, student learning, and the conditions that support learning.

Using Results for Continuous Improvement

    Indicator 5.2

  • Professional and support staff continuously collect, analyze, and apply learning from a range of data sources, including comparison and trend data about student learning, instruction, program evaluation, and organizational conditions.

    Level 4 .

  • Systematic processes and procedures for collecting, analyzing, and applying learning from all data sources are documented and used consistently by professional and support staff. Data sources include comparison and trend data that provide a comprehensive and complete picture of student learning, instruction, the effectiveness of programs, and the conditions that support learning. All school personnel use data to design, implement, and evaluate continuous improvement plans to improve student learning, instruction, the effectiveness of programs, and organizational conditions.

    Level 3 .

  • Systematic processes and procedures for collecting, analyzing, and applying learning from multiple data sources are used consistently by professional and support staff. Data sources include comparison and trend data that provide a complete picture of student learning, instruction, the effectiveness of programs, and the conditions that support learning. School personnel use data to design, implement, and evaluate continuous improvement plans to improve student learning, instruction, the effectiveness of programs, and organizational conditions.

    Level 2 .

  • Some processes and procedures for collecting, analyzing, and applying learning from data sources are used by professional and support staff. Data sources include limited comparison and trend data about student learning, instruction, the effectiveness of programs, and organizational conditions. School personnel use data to design, implement, and evaluate continuous improvement plans.

    Level 1 .

  • Few or no processes and procedures for collecting, analyzing, and applying learning from data sources are used by professional and support staff. Data sources include little or no comparison and trend data about student learning, instruction, the effectiveness of programs, and organizational conditions. School personnel rarely use data to design and implement continuous improvement plans.

Using Results for Continuous Improvement

    Indicator 5.3

  • Professional and support staff are trained in the evaluation, interpretation, and use of data.

    Level 4 .

  • All professional and support staff members are regularly and systematically assessed and trained in a rigorous, individualized professional development program related to the evaluation, interpretation, and use of data.

    Level 3 .

  • All professional and support staff members are assessed and trained in a rigorous professional development program related to the evaluation, interpretation, and use of data.

    Level 2 .

  • Most professional and support staff members are assessed and trained in a professional development program related to the evaluation, interpretation, and use of data.

    Level 1 .

  • Few or no professional and support staff members are trained in the evaluation, interpretation, and use of data.

Using Results for Continuous Improvement

    Indicator 5.4

  • The school engages in a continuous process to determine verifiable improvement in student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level.

    Level 4 .

  • Policies and procedures clearly define and describe a process for analyzing data that determine verifiable improvement in student learning including readiness for and success at the next level. Results indicate significant improvement, and school personnel systematically and consistently use these results to design, implement, and evaluate the results of continuous improvement action plans related to student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level.

    Level 3 .

  • Policies and procedures describe a process for analyzing data that determine verifiable improvement in student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level. Results indicate improvement, and school personnel consistently use these results to design, implement, and evaluate the results of continuous improvement action plans related to student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level.

    Level 2 .

  • A process exists for analyzing data that determine improvement in student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level. Results indicate mixed levels of improvement, and school personnel sometimes use these results to design, implement, and evaluate the results of continuous improvement action plans related to student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level.

    Level 1 .

  • An incomplete or no process exists for analyzing data that determine improvement in student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level. Results indicate no improvement, and school personnel rarely use results to design and implement continuous improvement action plans related to student learning, including readiness for and success at the next level.

Using Results for Continuous Improvement

    Indicator 5.5

  • Leadership monitors and communicates comprehensive information about student learning, conditions that support student learning, and the achievement of school improvement goals to stakeholders.

    Level 4 .

  • Leaders monitor comprehensive information about student learning, conditions that support student learning, and the achievement of school improvement goals. Leaders regularly communicate results using multiple delivery methods and in appropriate degrees of sophistication for all stakeholder groups.

    Level 3 .

  • Leaders monitor comprehensive information about student learning, conditions that support student learning, and the achievement of school improvement goals. Leaders regularly communicate results using multiple delivery methods to all stakeholder groups.

    Level 2 .

  • Leaders monitor information about student learning, conditions that support student learning, and the achievement of school improvement goals. Leaders communicate results to all stakeholder groups.

    Level 1 .

  • Leaders monitor some information about student learning, conditions that support student learning, and the achievement of school improvement goals. Leaders sometimes communicate results to stakeholders.