Availability of CAASPP statewide assessment data changed MiC leadership teams' discussions and appeared to accelerate districts' ability to monitor improvement¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Once CAASPP mathematics results became available, district teams grounded discussions in school-level achievement variation, and analysis of common data alongside theories of improvement seemed to accelerate districts' monitoring of improvement activities. → Perry 2019

Evidence¶

Perry 2019¶

Perry, R., Marple, S., & Reade, F. (2019). What accelerates a community of practice? Inflection points that changed the course of the Math in Common Initiative. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://www.wested.org/project/math-in-common-evaluation/

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Qualitative evaluation finding from the inflection point 2 section: WestEd prepared district-specific CAASPP data tables and analyses each fall, and data discussions grew from a few hours to daylong sessions. The authors hedge with "seemed to accelerate."

"In the later years of the initiative, the analysis of common sources of data alongside district theories of improvement seemed to accelerate districts' abilities to monitor their improve -ment activities."

Discussion¶

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