Measuring Child and Family Outcomes Conference Arlington, VA July 30, 2010 Looking for Patterns in Child Outcomes Data: How to Examine Data for Red Flags Donna Noyes, New York Part C Program Lauren Barton, ECO at SRI International Cornelia Taylor, ECO at SRI International
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Measuring Child and Family Outcomes Conference Arlington, VA July 30, 2010
Looking for Patterns in Child Outcomes Data:
How to Examine Data for Red Flags
Donna Noyes, New York Part C Program
Lauren Barton, ECO at SRI International
Cornelia Taylor, ECO at SRI International
Session Overview
• Why do pattern checking?
• What are we looking for?
• Example: New York Part C Data
• Activity: Getting started looking for patterns
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What is Pattern Checking?
• A process of slicing and displaying your child outcomes data in different ways
• Reveals relationships between variables
• Does this data look similar to or different from
– Data for various subgroups
– Overall data observed in other states
– The relationship or pattern you would expect to see
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Searching for Red Flags
Searching for patterns - sometimes • Warning signs… • Look more closely, can this be
right?– Missing data?– Data quality?– Data analysis?– Program itself?
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Early Childhood Outcomes Center 5
Available on the ECO website www.the-eco-center.org, ECO resources,
Quality Assurance, Data Quality (called the Pattern Checking Table)