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Understanding student performance management with analytics<\/em><\/h6>\n

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As schools fluctuate from in-person to online class and everything in between, attendance has new and varied definitions. Leaders are challenged to understand what is happening and where to focus their time. Your data can help.<\/p>\n

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Assess the Reality<\/h2>\n

When it comes to attendance these days, you get a different answer depending on who you talk to. While surveying our customers the answers go all the way from \u201cWe are in class every day and attendance is normal\u201d to \u201cWe are all virtual and some teachers hold class on Zoom, some on Google and some not at all. Attendance could be a combination of online participation, assignment submission, or even just logging in. The teachers enter it.\u201d Usually, that statement, made over a virtual meeting, is followed by a long pause while everyone ponders what it means.<\/p>\n

Many schools are closer to the second scenario, and be it all virtual or hybrid, will probably continue that way through the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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How can school administrators subjectively know where they stand with attendance? With data, of course.<\/h5>\n

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Follow the Data<\/h2>\n

For the most part, the student information system (SIS) remains the system of record for attendance. However in this \u201cvirtual reality\u201d, what constitutes attendance is sometimes a complicated formula and often a judgment call. Teachers are overwhelmed and it is everything many can do just to teach the kids they know are engaged. It\u2019s no wonder when you step back and look at attendance data, it\u2019s all over the map. Take, for example, the following chart which plots overall school-level attendance rates for the prior 2 years and the current year.<\/p>\n

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Generally one might expect the 20-21 line to follow the pattern of the prior 2 years with maybe a somewhat lower level of attendance due to virtual. But here, with just four schools in play, you see a wide variation of attendance rates from much worse to about the same to much better. What\u2019s going on here? Hard to say but at least it tells you something is amiss somewhere. It\u2019s time to dig deeper.<\/p>\n

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Dig Deeper: Attendance for Student Groups<\/h2>\n

What if we start looking at certain groups of students in those schools, for example, students with disabilities?<\/span><\/p>\n

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In some school systems, students with disabilities are the only kids that regularly attend in person right now. Even if that\u2019s the case here, at least 2 of the schools have some attendance rates for this student group that require more scrutiny. While overall attendance may look normal, certain student populations appear to be suffering disproportionately, as is the case with the students with disabilities at Province Middle. On the other hand, they are doing much better at County Middle compared to prior years. Understanding the cause for such divergence might be a good next step.<\/p>\n

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Follow Up and Follow Through<\/h2>\n

Your data analytics or SIS should produce this sort of analysis on demand and in just a couple minutes. This means taking a snapshot of your data, implementing changes on the ground, and then following up with the latest data. Here your time is best spent on school team interactions, not conjuring up data – or tasking your IT staff to do the same. The point is to focus your attention on the follow-through with the people involved and confirming progress through facts represented by enabling and widely available data.<\/p>\n

Is it difficult (or impossible) to easily produce and reproduce the transparent analysis necessary to manage virtual attendance? We can solve that part. Drop us a line.<\/p>\n

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Contact Us About Attendance Monitoring ><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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