Using Data for Educational System Redesign · Continuum of Data to Wisdom • Data –Analysis (focus on structure or how it works) and Synthesis (focus on function or why it works)

Using Data for Educational

System Redesign

School Research Nexus

Don W. Hooper, Ph.D.

April 6, 2017

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What is A System?

A system is a network with interrelated and interdependent parts. It is

defined by its boundaries and it is more than the sum of its parts

(subsystems). These interrelated and interdependent components

work together to accomplish the aim of the system.


System Leaders Design/Redesign

Their Own Systems for Success!!!!

• Systems design is the process of defining the

architecture, components, modules,

interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy

specified requirements.

• The whole process of system development, from

blueprint to the actual product, involves considering

all the relevant factors and taking the required

specifications and creating a useful system, based

on strong technical, analytical and development

skills of the professionals!


System Stewardship

• Systems can not be left to chance and chaos.

• Systems must be managed and led to cooperate for

optimum good, not to compete for selfish independence.

• Systems are created in order to meet the needs of the

users.

• They are not only intended to solve the existing

problems, but they also come up with acceptable

solutions to the problems that may arise in the future.


Superintendents are at the Epicenter

for Educational System Design


Focus: Critical To Quality (CTQ) Components

STEM or STEAMSS?

ScienceTechnology

Engineering MathematicsSocial StudiesCopyright CQL, Inc. 2017 All Rights Reserved

Arts

Data Analysis and Engineering is Key


Continuum of Data to Wisdom

• Data – Analysis (focus on structure or how it works) and

Synthesis (focus on function or why it works) becomes

Information

• Information – Description: what (based upon applied theory and

experience can become knowledge)

• Knowledge – Instruction: how to (from analysis)

• Understanding – Explanation of why (from synthesis)(patterns,

relationships, principles)

• Wisdom – What is Best: knowing when and why then to apply

knowledge with understanding

• (vision and design what should be done: New Meaning)

Doing

Things Right

Doing the

Right Thing

Past

Future

What Can

Be Done

Design What Should Be Done

Efficiency

Effectiveness

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A System of Profound Knowledge

“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape

of the earth, the continents, and the oceans

was not ignorance, but the illusion of

knowledge.”

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

How do we solve it?


Thinking Out of the Box

1. Connect all nine dots using

no more than four straight

lines.

2. The dots cannot be

repositioned

3. The connecting line must

be drawn in one

continuous stroke

4. Leave the pencil on the

paper until all lines have

been drawn.


The Vision/Mission with the Method

• Don’t allow our thinking

to be contained and

limited by imaginary

boundaries.

• People can’t learn how

to think out of the box

unless they’re doing

their own thinking.


Vision

Method

Box vs. Out of the Box


System Improvement vs. System Redesign


Define Measure Analyze Design Verify

(DMADV)

• This facilitates understanding

what kind of data is available

and by whom it is supplied to

the system so that the system

may be designed considering

all the relevant factors.

• In addition, system designing

leads to ensure that the

system is created in such a

way that it fulfills the need of

the users and keep them at

ease being user-oriented.


Data Based Authentic Intellectual Work

(AIW)Terry Hemann and Don Hooper


The Framework for Authentic

Intellectual Work (AIW)

• An evaluative tool used by educators of all subjects

at the elementary and secondary levels to assess

the quality of classroom instruction, assignments,

and student work.

• The purpose of the framework is to promote student

production of genuine and rigorous work that

resembles the complex work of adults.


What is AIW?

• It involves original application of knowledge and

skills, rather than simply routine use of facts and

procedures.

• Therefore, for students, authentic intellectual work

results in a product or presentation that has

meaning or value beyond the classroom.


The Framework for Authentic

Intellectual Work (AIW)

• Consequently, the framework identifies three main criteria for

student learning and provides standards accompanied by

scaled rubrics for classroom instruction, assignments, and

student work.

• The standards and rubrics are meant to support teachers in

the promotion of genuine and rigorous work, as well as guide

professional development and collaboration.


Three Main Criteria for Student Learning

• Construction of knowledge

• Disciplined inquiry

• Value beyond school

• AIW provides standards accompanied by scaled rubrics for classroom

instruction, assignments, and student work.

• The standards and rubrics are meant to support teachers in the

promotion of genuine and rigorous work, as well as guide

professional development and collaboration.


How does it Compare to Current Practice?

• For many students, the work they perform in schools entails

memorization of facts and algorithms, and can fail to relate to

the work they will need to do as an adult.

• The disconnect between the material studied at school and

the skills needed to perform well in one’s work, personal, or

civic life can make school work seem meaningless or

worthless.

• Learning tasks call for specific memorized information,

retrieval of given information, or application of routine

computational procedures, but rarely do they call for higher-

level thinking, interpretation, or in-depth conceptual

understanding.


How does it Compare to Current Practice?

• Currently schoolwork is regarded largely as a series

of contrived exercises necessary to earn credentials

(grades, promotions) required for future success,

but for many, especially poor students of color, this

work leads to disengagement and dropping out.

• However, most jobs, personal matters and civic

actions require problem-solving skills, in-depth

understanding of problems and specific skills, and

the ability to communicate in a variety of forms.


Systems Design: The Application of

Systems Theory to Product Development

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Using Data for Educational

System Redesign

• Round Table Exercise

• Identify the inputs to our systems as they

currently exist

• Identify Keep Start Stop for a new system


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