Identify Questions the Data Raise ~ Analyzing Your MSPAP Data

Identify questions the data raise

When staff examine the graphed data for their school, they most frequently find that the data raises more questions than they answer. For this reason it is important that staff spend some time identifying and recording those questions that the data raises and that can only be answered by collecting and analyzing additional data. These questions help direct the discussion in the problem clarification process of why the data looks like it does.

To practice your skill in interpreting graphs, you can view a graph, identify questions the data raise, and compare your questions to the ones our experts raised.

Leslie Wilson, Howard County Public Schools and Tim Dangel, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, discuss graphs of school performance on MSPAP and identify questions the data raise for them for Schools A, B, and C. Carolyn Wood, Supervisor, Office of Research and Evaluation, Harford County Public Schools and Leslie Wilson have the same discussion with data from Schools X, Y, and Z. After you have clicked on a set of school graphs, you will be able to practice writing your questions that the data raised for you and then compare your answers to the ones that Leslie, Carolyn and Tim identified.