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Metric, Threshold & Goalswithin the Insight Dashboard

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Metric• Metrics are the building blocks of The Insight Dashboard

• A metric is some indicator directly or indirectly associated with student achievement

• Metrics give direction Example: We want a student’s Daily Attendance Rate to be as high as

possible and we want a student’s Class Period Absence Rate to be as low as possible

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Thresholds• A threshold is the value of the metric that marks the cut point between being

acceptable and unacceptable

In terms of The Insight Dashboard, a threshold is the value where the metric turns from green to red or from red to green

• Threshold Examples Student Daily Attendance Rate 85% Class Period Absence Rate 15% Days Absent 10 days

• The Insight Dashboard metric thresholds are based in research conducted by

The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation The Regional Educational Laboratory, Mid-Atlantic The Delaware Department of Education (research and policy)

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Goals• Goals relate to aggregations of student metrics at the school or district

level

• The goal represents the number of students that a school or district expects to be above or below the threshold for a particular metric

Example: The school goal for the Daily Attendance Rate metric is 95%, which means we want 95% of our students meeting the Daily Attendance Rate threshold of 85%

Assessment Goals are ESEA-aligned and individualized for each school, meaning they are calculated based on RTTT objective to reduce non-proficiency percentages by one-half by 2017

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Student Attendance Metrics

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Student Assessment Metrics

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School Level Attendance Metrics

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School Level Assessment Metrics

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District Level Attendance Metrics

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District Level Assessment Metric