3D2Know ::: Data-Driven Decision Making

How Ready Are You?
A Special Tool for School District Leaders To Assess Readiness to Use Data Effectively

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched its Data-driven Decision Making initiative, Vision to Know and Do, in February 2003 to help school district leaders use data effectively in decision-making.

As part of this initiative, CoSN is now providing districts with a tool to determine their readiness to use data-driven decision making for both accountability and continuous school improvement. Spend a few minutes taking this self assessment and receive a quick calculation of the results. What better way than this to continue the process of using data effectively and determining where you are in the process of becoming a data rich district.

Thank you for you your interest in this assessment.

About Your District

School District:
Your Title:
Location:
Student Enrollment:
Total Number of Schools:

Directions for Self-Assessment

Please select the answer that most accurately reflects your perception of your district's performance level in each of the areas described.

Definition of Levels:
A	No Action	Either not addressed, or no specific information or no particular perception or awareness of this area is present.
B	Early	Aware of the area. The District is working toward forming policies and actions.
C	Developing	Policy and or actions have been established. The District has begun actively working toward achieving its goals for this area.
D	Proficient	Plans, actions and responsible parties are part of ongoing operations for this area. There is an established, ongoing program yielding observable, positive results.
E	Optimal	Our program is a model in this area. It attracts attention from the community and produces exceptional results.
F	Don't Know	I do not have sufficient information to assess my district’s performance in this area.

The district has involved educators in the process of identifying and creating an inventory of data elements that must be captured to meet school and district reporting requirements.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district information systems are currently capturing all data necessary to meet teacher, counselor, building administrator and central office administrator reporting requirements.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district regularly surveys teachers, staff, and administrators to find out what information they need to make informed decisions and district collection and distribution of information is up to date.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district is able to "easily" extract the data necessary to meet teacher, counselor, building administrator and central office administrator needs in a format useful for analysis and decision-making needs.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district is confident that 95% of the data that is captured by the district information systems are accurate.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district has taken steps such as data audits and centralized validation programs to ensure that the data captured by district information systems are accurate.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district is able to provide data necessary to follow trends as well as growth of individual students or cohorts of students over time.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district has a process in place for interpreting the data and for querying relations (e.g. attendance mapped to test scores; supplemental program costs to grades; training workshop participation to student work outputs).
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
The district has a process in place for identifying, recommending and implementing intervention strategies based on data that has been collected and analyzed.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know
District and school administrators have plans to provide technical support to teachers in implementing targeted interventions to improve low performance for individual students, classes and schools based on the data that has been collected and analyzed.
A. No Action
B. Early
C. Developing
D. Proficient
E. Optimal
F. Don't Know

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