Report Analysis Questions
- What areas of students’ performance are at or above expectations?
- What areas of student performance are below expectations?
- How did various groups (e.g. gender, race, socioeconomic, disability, English proficiency) of students perform?
- What are other data telling us about student performance in this area that confirms or creates additional questions?
- What confirms what we already know? What challenges what we thought?
- What important observations seem to “pop out” from the data? Surprising observations? Unexpected observations?
- What patterns or trends appear?
- What similarities and differences exist across various data sources?
- What do we observe at the school level? The grade level? The class level?
- What are some things we have not yet explored? What other data do we want to examine?