National Tracking Project Data for School Improvement.

National Tracking Project

Data for School Improvement

Who’s Involved? Standards of Excellence and Learning

(SEA+L)

Brock University Coral Mitchell, Department of Education Brock Business Consulting Group – MBA

students

41 SEA+L schools across Canada

Motivation for the National Tracking Project Canadian independent schools declare themselves to

be excellent university preparatory schools

Most schools have detailed data on university acceptance but little or no concrete information on post-secondary performance

SEA+L standards require schools to track graduate performance

SEA+L defines its member schools as “providing outstanding academic preparation for higher education”

Why quantitative data?

For reflection To confirm or refute our predictions To establish trends and drive

decision making To build community discussions To improve teaching and learning in

our schools

What data is being collected?

Academic achievements of graduating class

Extra-curricular participation by graduating class

University and college transcripts for past graduates each spring

National data – comparing results between SEA+L schools

History Two pioneer schools

Rothesay Netherwood School Balmoral Hall School

2006 - Pilot Project 19 schools from across Canada Creation of the NTP Advisory Group Donna Alexander (BHS) - NTP coordinator Partnership with Coral Mitchell, Brock University & Larry

Sackney, University of Saskatchewan Development of a comprehensive support manual and

training programme for data collection for participating schools

History 2007

40 schools involved in tracking

2008 Kim Tulloch (LCC) appointed NTP Coordinator Brock Business Consulting Group joins in to do data

collection and analysis Preliminary cross-Canada data analysis results are shared

with NTP schools

2009 42 schools across Canada involved in tracking Brock Business Consulting Group providing data analysis

for individual schools

Process

Graduating students (& parents) are asked to sign five/six transcript release forms

School submits transcript release forms to receiving universities beginning 13 months after secondary graduation

School collects transcripts, enters data and submits aggregate information to NTP coordinator

Process National trends are identified and reported

back to participating schools for comparative purposes

“Soft” data on extra-curricular and co-curricular participation also collected and correlated

Schools maintain confidentiality of data for first five years of project

Timeline for NTPFall 2010 Speak to students and parents, about the intent of project.

(This will be on-going throughout the school year)

Spring 2011 Ask students to complete on-line survey – link sent to you

by NTP coordinator. Survey results will be sent back to you as an Excel worksheet.

Ask graduating students to sign transcript release form with their full name and date of birth University name and ID number is not necessary. Requiring parent’s signature is at the discretion of each

individual school. Enter graduates’ final high school marks in the Excel

worksheet once the students complete the survey and it is sent to you.

Timeline for NTPFall 2011 Speak to students and parents, about the intent of project. (This

will be on-going throughout the school year)

Spring/summer 2012 Separate 2011 graduates’ transcript release forms by university Determine cost of transcripts (use hyperlinks from NTP manual) Arrange payment and send transcript release forms to universities Once transcripts are received, enter the university results in the

above worksheet for the 2011 graduates Enter the 2012 graduates’ high school marks in their worksheet

Fall 2012 Send your first year (2011 grad) results to SEAL/Brock Business

Consulting Group

Student Involvement

Where are the resources?

http://www.seal.edu/

ResourcesNTP manual and templates are available from the SEA+L website: http://www.seal.edu

Resources

Brock Business Consulting Group Doing data collection and analysis for all

participating NTP schools Individual school data analysis Cross analysis with national data

Providing technical support for data entry

Will complete data entry for NTP schools for a small fee

Resources & Support Kimberly Tulloch-Wynn,

Project Co-ordinator – [email protected]

Lindsay Ireland , Administrative Assistant SEA+L – [email protected]

David Bungay, Brock Business Consulting – [email protected]

Outcomes

Early results have been tabulated, shared and compared with published, aggregate university data

Schools have been reflecting on programme needs and university selection process

NTP in the future In conjunction with Brock Business Consulting

Group, we’re working to make the NTP process more “user friendly” for individual NTP coordinators: Streamlining of data collection Providing analysis of data that is relevant

for each individual school Student surveys that are shorter and more

specifically relevant for each individual school

Conclusions Reputation built on “good news” stories

and alumni profiles will come under greater scrutiny

Schools that collect concrete data on graduate performance will be able to: accurately assess the success of their

programmes have the data they need to effect significant and

targeted school improvement strategies