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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The attempt to correlate student
attendance and retention with teacher participation in professional development
is still in very preliminary stages and a professional statistician might say that
we’re going about it in the wrong way but one aspect of what is being
discussed relates to a “retention” score being looked at that is
derived from the total number of hours all students enrolled in a class could
potentially have attended during a certain time period (if all of those students
had attended every hour from the time they had enrolled to the time they left
the course or the specified time period was reached) divided by the actual
hours those same students attended. So let’s say that some 42 students
could have attended a maximum total of 3000 hours of class time during the time
period being examined. The actual attendance of those students during that
time period was 1500 hours. 1500 total actual hours divided by 3000 total
possible hours gives a 50 percent figure. By doing the same calculation for
every class offered, a division-wide “average retention” figure can
be established for a particular type of class.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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The idea is that by identifying teachers who have taken staff development
courses, and then looking at their individual average retention figure “pre”
and “post” training, the effect of the training on an individual
teacher’s retention might be demonstrated and in turn the effect on all
teachers who have attended trainings as a group. I’m not sure what
variables other than the training are being considered. Again, these ideas are
all preliminary and experimental so they’re not for wider dissemination.
It would obviously be preferable to have a controlled double-blind study but
that seems to be out of reach at the moment…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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assessment-bounces@nifl.gov [mailto:assessment-bounces@nifl.gov] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Nancy R Faux/AC/VCU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 11, 2008
11:23 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> The Assessment Discussion List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Assessment 1521] Re:
Getting staff used to using data</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:sans-serif'>Hi Barry,</span></font> <br>
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<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Could
you please explain how you are correlating student attendance and retention
with teacher participation in professional development, or the workshops that
you offer? We are exploring ways of doing this, also.</span></font> <br>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span
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Nancy R. Faux<br>
ESOL Specialist<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Virginia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Adult</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Learning</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Resource</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Virginia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Commonwealth</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">3600 W. Broad Street, Suite 669</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Richmond</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">VA</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">23230-4930</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
nfaux@vcu.edu<br>
</span></font><a href="http://www.valrc.org/"><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>http://www.valrc.org<br>
1-800-237-0178</span></font></a> <br>
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</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Data
is not just for classroom instructional staff to analyze. Our staff meeting
yesterday(of teacher trainers responsible for staff development)focused on
using attendance and ADA statistics collected since 1999 as a way to determine
whether or not our team's staff development efforts over the last several years
has resulted in increases in student attendance and retention by students whose
teachers have taken staff development workshops. We have an immediate and
pressing interest for doing so, as expected district-wide budget shortfalls of
millions of dollars are leading some at the district level to advocate for the
elimination of staff-development programs in the coming year. We
obviously feel that teachers who improve their skills will retain students
better than those who don't, but we'd like to be able to point to data that
demonstrates that.</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Barry Bakin</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">ESL Teacher Adviser</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Division of Adult and Career Education</font></tt><br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><tt><font face="Courier New">Los Angeles</font></tt></st1:City><tt><font
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