Blog Archives - OUSD Data

10th Grade PSAT Reports Now Available!

2/21/2015

PSAT 10th Grade Participation and Performance reports are now available at the district and school level in our Internal Data Reports page. The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test is a comprehensive assessment program. It is designed to measure whether students are
"on-track" to graduate high school ready for college. All 10th grade OUSD students take the exam free of charge in October and results are received from the College Board. Enrollment is based on October Aeries enrollment.

If you have any questions, please contact Kevin Schmidke for more information.

Updated Early Warning Reports Now Available!

2/18/2015

Marking Period 3 (End of Semester 1) “Early Warning For Dropping Out” reports now available.

The Early Warning reports pinpoint grade 6-12 students who are at risk of dropping out. Each Early Warning report assists school leaders in identifying “at risk” students for appropriate interventions aimed at keeping students in school and helping them to persist to graduation.

The reports are based on research found in "An Early Warning System" by Ruth Neild, Robert Balfanz, and Liza Herzog. A secondary student is included in this list if their latest grade in English or Math was an F, their current attendance rate is 80% or less (Severe Chronic Absent), or they have more than one out-of-school suspension for the school year. The reports include ethnicity, gender, disability, home language, fluency and number of years in OUSD for English Learner students. Each secondary school’s report can be found in the “Protected Student Level Data” folder for each school folder on our Google Drive accessible HERE.

For questions about this report, please contact Kevin Smith.

New Newcomer Demographic Reports Now Available!

2/16/2015

Newcomer demographic reports are now available at the district level and for schools with high numbers of Newcomer students. A Newcomer is defined as a student who has been in the United States for less than one year. In this report, current 2014-15 demographic data includes students who have a US entry date between October 1, 2013 and October 1, 2014. October 1st, is also used as the cutoff date for 2012-13 and 2013-14 data.

Data on this report includes dis-aggregation by ethnicity, gender, birth country, home language, fluency status, time of arrival, and grade level.

This report was produced on February 17, 2015. Information is based on AERIES data as of February 13, 2014. Detailed student level data is available by request. For any comments or questions about this report, please contact Rattana Yeang.

Accessing Our College and Career Pathway Reports

2/16/2015

A college and career pathway - also called a Linked Learning pathway - is a set of high school courses and work-based learning experiences such as internships that link academic learning to real world careers and college majors.

You can access Oakland Unified School District's Grade 10-12 Pathway Participation 2013-14 reports in our Public Data Reports page. Reports are available at both the district and school level. Enrollment is based on Aeries active end of year enrollment. The data is as of June 15, 2014. The report was produced on July 25, 2014. Subgroups totalling less than 11 in any academic year are excluded from this report to protect student privacy. For questions about these reports, please contact Kevin Schmidke.

New Fall 2014-15 Reclassification Rate Report Now Available!

2/13/2015

Updated reclassification rates have been published to the Internal Google Drive. Reports consist of 4 years worth of data and are sorted by school and home language. Reclassification rates are calculated based on active English Language Learner students from the previous academic year who were reclassified in the following academic year. Note that Fall 2014-15 reclassification rates are based on students who reclassified during the fall reclassification window ending on October 31, 2014, while other academic years shown on the report consist of reclassification rates from both fall and spring windows.

For student level data on which students were eligible or not eligible for reclassification from the fall, refer to the Reclassification Folders located in the Protected Student Level Data Folders in the Internal Google Drive. You will find additional student level data on each of the criteria needed to be eligible for reclassification (CELDT proficiency, SRI, CAHSEE exemption...etc).

If you have problems accessing the Protected Student Level Data folder in our Internal Google Drive, please contact Rattana Yeang. For any other comments or questions about this report, please contact Nicole Knight for more information.

Updated Comprehensive Student Data Rosters for Marking Period 3 Now Available!

2/13/2015

The Comprehensive Student Data Roster is a student-level Excel spreadsheet containing as many as 100 data points for each pupil. A school-wide CSDR is available for download for each of OUSD's 86 community schools. An alternative collection of teacher-specific -- "only my students" -- CSDRs is also provided. Please note that you must be signed into your OUSD Gmail in order to access the Protected Student Level Data folder. If you're having trouble viewing this folder, please contact Rattana Yeang for support.

The CSDR draws from separate data sources to bring together:
1. Demographics
2. Enrollment (current school and teacher(s), current Pathway, 2013-14 school, 2014 summer school)
3. English language fluency status (as calculated as of October 24)
4. Assessment score series from OUSD Benchmark and California State standardized instruments
5. Engagement metrics (attendance and suspension data)

Fresh data points to the CSDR in the February 9 edition:
1. CELDT Annual scores plus Initial CELDTs taken during Fall
2. Secondary Math Benchmark scores from January
3. Current Pathway participation, plus PSAT scores from October
4. GPA for each marking period (secondary grades, Fall)
5. Early Warning Flags, with prior EW-flag-counts to mark progress)
Full list in the CSDR Guide

What additional resources are there?
1. Guide to CSDR data points
2. "Make the Most of Excel" guide to exploiting the CSDR
3. Videos on how to filter, sort, and print, in Excel
4. OUSD Data Request for your specific questions

What else should I know?
1. It will be refreshed again after every marking period for secondary schools
2. It will be refreshed again after every trimester for elementary schools

Need 1 on 1 support?
We can visit your site to give you a personal consultation on how to get the most out of your CSDR. To request a site visit, email us at data@ousd.k12.ca.us

Updated Monthly Out Of School Suspension Reports Now Available!

2/8/2015

Suspension reports for 2014-15 up through the end of January are online now. Summary reports "Students Receiving Suspensions," and "Out-of-School Suspension Incidents," for YTD (2015-01-31) are shared as PDF files in the Districtwide - Suspension - 2014-15 folder, for access by all OUSD Employees. Supplemental spreadsheets and method notes are also shared there, in the "Suspension Report Companion Spreadsheets" Excel workbook.

62 schools recorded OSS incidents to Aeries using discipline data entry guidelines aligned with usage of the Universal Discipline Referral Form. Leadership for those sites can find an "OSS Suspended Students Roster" in their school's Protected Student Level Data folder.

For questions about these reports, please contact James Tharp.

NEW SECONDARY MATH BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE REPORTS NOW AVAILABLE!

2/2/2015

Results are in from Secondary Math Benchmark Assessments Admin 1. At the January 26th deadline for scanning answer sheets into Edusoft, more than 8,000 OUSD Grade 6-12 students had been assessed. Districtwide, that is an on time participation rate of 67%.

The math test responses were scored collaboratively by school site and T&L math teams. In the Performance Task sections of tests, 46% of students in grades 6-8 scored at or above the proficiency level; 20% of students in grades 9-12 scored at or above proficiency. In Selected Response sections and Constructed Response sections, the percentages proficient were lower.

For questions about these reports, please contact James Tharp. For questions about high school math assessment in OUSD, please contact math specialist Kristina Becht. For questions about middle grades math assessment in OUSD, please contact Erik Moll. For questions about middle school or high school math instructional programs in OUSD, please contact Middle School Math Coordinator Estelle Wodbury, or High School Math Coordinator Barbara Shreve.