Provide schools real-time early warning data reports and credit recovery reports to monitor student performance and support on-track progress¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 design), q1 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The district began providing real-time early warning data reports and credit recovery reports to high schools in 2008, and the biggest changes in graduation and on-track rates occurred afterward. Schools use these data to monitor students' performance, prevent class failure, identify students needing to make up credits, and partner with nonprofits providing mentoring to at-risk students.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• District-level data infrastructure capable of producing real-time reports on attendance, course failure, and credits for schools to act on

Constraints¶

• The report states it is beyond the scope of the study to discern the degree to which specific policies influenced graduation rates, since policies overlapped and changed form across years

Target Learners¶

• Ninth-grade high school students in a large urban district

Target Learning Goals¶

• Staying on-track to graduate in ninth grade; earning credits; improving attendance and course pass rates

Claims¶

• Students off track for graduation after ninth grade are less than half as likely to graduate than their on-track peers [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Focus school improvement efforts on the ninth-grade transition using real-time data to monitor and support at-risk freshmen
• Monitor freshman-year grades and intervene early, treating D students as needing attention comparable to F students
• Design credit-recovery interventions to address broader academic deficits and engagement, not only algebra content
• Attend to both SEL status and SEL growth when identifying students who may need supports to stay on track to graduate
• Intrusive, data-driven advising: track unregistered students, audit degree plans, and bring advising directly to students

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Allensworth, E.M., Healey, K., Gwynne, J.A., & Crespin, R. (2016). High school graduation rates through two decades of district change: The influence of policies, data records, and demographic shifts. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://www.cps.edu/SchoolData/Pages/SchoolData.aspx