The final report, titled «Just the Right Mix: Identifying Potential Dropouts in Montgomery County Public Schools
Using an Early Warning Indicators Approach,» goes back to first grade and identifies «cut points» that are related to an increased likelihood of students dropping out of school.
Dr. Robert Balfanz, a pioneer for
using early warning indicators, will share his evidence - based models for identifying and monitoring at - risk students through early warning systems.
A data guided, tiered student support system that
uses early warning indicators and an integrated system of whole school, targeted and intensive supports to get the right intervention, to the right student, at the right time at the scale and intensity required (along with rapid recovery options when this does not work).
Sixteen states
use an early warning indicator, which helps educators identify at - risk students.
Not exact matches
The
early warning report will
use nine financial
indicators, including the amount of cash on hand, the size of operating deficits, as well as demographic trends like population size and tax growth that the Comptroller's office has recently studied.
Targeted policies, such as
early -
warning indicator systems,
use large administrative databases to systematically predict which students will struggle with academics or behavioral problems, with the intention of targeting those students
early, before problems escalate.
While little impact - evaluation research exists on the efficacy of
early -
warning indicator systems in reducing the
use of exclusionary discipline, implementation research suggests that if
early -
warning systems are not paired with a behavioral - support approach, they are unlikely to be effective.
Also included will be an exploration of the following: • Research - based methodologies and measures for identifying at - risk students • A step - by - step process to create and implement an
Early Warning System • Existing models in
use today, reviewing the most predictive
indicators and cut points.
Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2011, he spent three years with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where he managed their nationally focused policy and capacity - building initiatives and worked closely with policymakers, district leaders and researchers developing and
using early warning and college readiness
indicators.
To identify these schools, we
use Performance Matters and Unify to look at three years of data from state assessments and district assessments, as well as
early warning indicators, classroom summary reports, and more.
Participants heard from national experts on chronic absenteeism,
early warning systems, and the Success Mentor strategy, and asked questions about
using chronic absenteeism as an
indicator to measure school quality or student success in Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans.
Therefore, the purpose of this session — «
Using Early Warning System Data to Ensure Students Don't Fall Through the Cracks» — is to examine which student - level
indicators can be
used to predict on - time cohort graduation and how those
indicators can be systematically monitored through Performance Matters»
Early Warning System.
ScholarCentric's researchers have also conducted three separate studies to evaluate whether students» resiliency scores, as measured by the Success Highways Resiliency Assessment, could 1) differentiate high from low academically achieving students
using several factors; and / or 2) identify whether the assessment could be further refined to serve as an
early warning indicator of potential high school failure.
This led to the development of the Freshman OnTrack
early warning indicator, which is now
used throughout Illinois and in districts across the country.
This study is among the very first to demonstrate that
early warning indicators can be
used within the first year to reduce the number of students at - risk of high school dropout.
Study findings will show how accurately
early warning indicators currently in
use in these districts predict dropout for ELL and non-ELL students and whether different cut points for the
indicators are more accurate for the ELL population.
Districts and schools that seek to
use an
early warning system relying on these
indicators are left to determine which
indicators to
use and to trust that the cut point for those
indicators is the same in their communities as they are across the country.
The author analyzed the ESSA plans that 16 states and Washington, D.C., submitted to the Department of Education, including updated plans, as of August 1, 2017.32 The analysis organizes the new measures of school quality or student success that states
use in their school classification systems into four categories:
early warning; persistence, other than four - year or extended - year graduation rates; college and career readiness; and enrichment and environment
indicators.
British coal miners
used canaries as air quality
indicators and
early warning systems well into the 1980s.