A new feature has been added to the Chronic Absence List reports for each school - distance in miles for each student.  The new data field - entitled "School Travel Dist (Miles)" - gives the distance that each Chronic Absent and At Risk student must travel to get to school, using the shortest possible route per city street patterns.  It does not take into account obstacles such as freeways, etc.  The distances were calculated for each student in late October 2014, and if there has been any change in school or address for a student it will read "N/A".
 
We hope that this added piece of information each week will assist school leaders in their analysis of what may be effecting a student's attendance. For more questions, please contact Kevin Smith.

The OUSD fall 2014-15 DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skils) report is ready. You can access the report by clicking HERE. Results are shown by site, network, network cluster, English Fluency status, Ethnicity / Gender and more. 

DIBELS is an assessment of early literacy skills, and the first sound fluency and phonemic awareness components have been shown to be predictive of reading success in 3rd grade and beyond. OUSD administers DIBELS three times per year. Scores from IDEL, the Spanish language version of DIBELS, are included in the report.

For questions about these reports, please contact Rinat Fried.

The new F&P admin 1 results are in. More than 15,000 OUSD 1st through 5th graders were assessed in F&P this fall. The performance reports reflect instructional reading levels as recorded by teachers in Edusoft up to the close of the assessment window on 12/5/2014. F&P performance bands can be found HERE. 

For questions about these reports, please contact Rinat Fried.

The Comprehensive Student Data Rosters is a student-level Excel spreadsheet containing as many as 100 data points for each pupil.  Updated school-wide CSDRs are available for download for each of OUSD's 86 community schools and  an alternative collection of teacher-specific -- "only my students" -- CSDRs is also provided. For the full list of updated data points, click HERE. 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 Research, Assessment & Data Team in partnership with Teaching and Learning has now released the SRI Performance report for Grades 2-5 Admin 1 (Fall) at www.ousddata.org. You can access district level reports HERE. The report gives district-level summations of student performance by different student groups for all 2-5 students expected to take the SRI as of Dec 5, as well as a school-wide summation for each elementary school. 

We are asking that Network leaders please inform school leaders that this summary report is now available. They can find it by:

1) Clicking on “Reports” at the top of the webpage and then “Internal Data Reports”
2) Clicking on “00_OUSD Districtwide”
3) Open the “Scholastic Reading Inventory” folder and then click on “2014-15”
4) Open the file “OUSD Districtwide – Gr 2-5 - SRI Performance - Admin 1 - 2014-15.pdf”. 

In addition, a student SRI roster for each school has been loaded to the schools’ “Protected Student Data” folder on the same reporting website at www.ousddata.org.  It includes the best Lexile, Reading Grade Level, and SRI Performance Band for each student that took the SRI during the testing window, and is meant to accompany the summary Performance report described above.

Elementary Math Benchmark Assessments - Admin 1 results are in. At the December 12 deadline for scanning answer sheets into Edusoft, more than 16,000 OUSD K-5 students had been assessed. Districtwide, that is a participation rate of 83%. 

The math test responses were scored collaboratively by school site and T&L math teams.  Districtwide, 51% of students scored at or above the proficiency level on the performance task. 52% scored at or above proficiency on the constructed response section; 41% scored proficient on the selected response portion. 

For questions about these reports, please contact James Tharp.  For questions about elementary math instruction in OUSD, please contact Robin Lovell.