Say:
Greetings friends. Happy to have you with us.
We will circle back to the warm up throughout the next 90 minutes, as we work tirelessly toward being able to answer those three questions.
Give:
G/S’s 30 seconds to read today’s objectives, also on your interactive handout, pg. 1
Say:
Here’s our agenda for the day, also in your interactive handout pg. 1. A couple thoughts on our pacing for the day…
We're making great progress here
Say:
Frequency/Quantiles: a way to partition scores into buckets (bins) of same size representing ranges of scores
We are still trying to answer the question of ‘which class did better?’ Here we are producing some tabular descriptive statistics.
Let’s see an example
Give:
G/S’s a moment to calculate how many scores are in each range for each class.
Highlight
Class 2 has 3 students who are “passing” and Class 1 has only 1
But, class 3 also has 3 students who are FAR below passing in the 0-20% range.
Highlight
Class 2 has 3 students who are “passing” and Class 1 has only 1
But, class 3 also has 3 students who are FAR below passing in the 0-20% range.
Give:
G/S’s a moment to calculate how many scores are in each range for each class.
Say
Don’t let the raw data tell the wrong story. What if we partition the bins in different ways? The classes look the same again.
Say
Determining the groupings for partitioning, or ‘cutting’ data is not always intuitive; attempting several different groupings can show the patterns more clearly.
For your purposes, you may want to bin by 10% groupings, to allow us to see Achievement Floor vs. Ambitious Goal cut points.
Bin sizes should be the same, if you’re going to create a frequency table
Say
Don’t let the raw data tell the wrong story. What if we partition the bins in different ways? The classes look the same again.
Say
Determining the groupings for partitioning, or ‘cutting’ data is not always intuitive; attempting several different groupings can show the patterns more clearly.
For your purposes, you may want to bin by 10% groupings, to allow us to see Achievement Floor vs. Ambitious Goal cut points.
Bin sizes should be the same, if you’re going to create a frequency table
Say
Don’t let the raw data tell the wrong story. What if we partition the bins in different ways? The classes look the same again.
Say
Determining the groupings for partitioning, or ‘cutting’ data is not always intuitive; attempting several different groupings can show the patterns more clearly.
For your purposes, you may want to bin by 10% groupings, to allow us to see Proficient Goal vs. Ambitious Goal cut points.
Bin sizes should be the same, if you’re going to create a frequency table
Say
Don’t let the raw data tell the wrong story. What if we partition the bins in different ways? The classes look the same again.
Say
Determining the groupings for partitioning, or ‘cutting’ data is not always intuitive; attempting several different groupings can show the patterns more clearly.
For your purposes, you may want to bin by 10% groupings, to allow us to see Proficient Goal vs. Ambitious Goal cut points.
Bin sizes should be the same, if you’re going to create a frequency table
71.3% of statistics are made up on the spot…oops, that was supposed to say 81.3%
71.3% of statistics are made up on the spot…oops, that was supposed to say 81.3%
71.3% of statistics are made up on the spot…oops, that was supposed to say 81.3%
Say:
Standard deviation is a way to measure of spread. It is the average distance of the data points from the mean. You don't need to know how to calculate, but you should understand the concept.
Say:
Standard deviation is a way to measure of spread. It is the average distance of the data points from the mean. You don't need to know how to calculate, but you should understand the concept.
Review:
A “low” standard deviation - data are clustered close to the mean
A “high” standard deviation - data are spread across the range of values
Review:
A “low” standard deviation - data are clustered close to the mean
A “high” standard deviation - data are spread across the range of values
Ask:
Which class had a greater average distance from the mean? Remember the mean here is 50 for both classes. [Take response on his fingers 1 vs. 2]
ASR: Class 2
Say:
I’m going to give you the values of the standard deviation here so you can compare.
Ask:
What would make the standard deviation absolutely lowest?
ASR: If everybody had the same score, the standard deviation would be 0.
Say
To look at this visually check out these scatter plots of the data from each class. Now look at how the data lies in relation to the mean which is indicated by this red line. Notice how there is more spread in the class with the higher standard deviation.
Ask:
So which class did better? [Take response on his fingers 1 vs. 2]
ASR: Class 2 because it had less spread from the mean
Say:
Again, you just need to understand the conceptual meaning. So when there is a greater spread of data relative to the mean, the higher the standard deviation. A low standard deviation when your class has a high average or mean means there isn’t a group of students WAY above or WAY below the mean, which is typically good for student achievement.
Say
To look at this visually check out these scatter plots of the data from each class. Now look at how the data lies in relation to the mean which is indicated by this red line. Notice how there is more spread in the class with the higher standard deviation.
Ask:
So which class did better? [Take response on his fingers 1 vs. 2]
ASR: Class 2 because it had less spread from the mean
Say:
Again, you just need to understand the conceptual meaning. So when there is a greater spread of data relative to the mean, the higher the standard deviation. A low standard deviation when your class has a high average or mean means there isn’t a group of students WAY above or WAY below the mean, which is typically good for student achievement.
Say
To look at this visually check out these scatter plots of the data from each class. Now look at how the data lies in relation to the mean which is indicated by this red line. Notice how there is more spread in the class with the higher standard deviation.
Ask:
So which class did better? [Take response on his fingers 1 vs. 2]
ASR: Class 2 because it had less spread from the mean
Say:
Again, you just need to understand the conceptual meaning. So when there is a greater spread of data relative to the mean, the higher the standard deviation. A low standard deviation when your class has a high average or mean means there isn’t a group of students WAY above or WAY below the mean, which is typically good for student achievement.
Say
To look at this visually check out these scatter plots of the data from each class. Now look at how the data lies in relation to the mean which is indicated by this red line. Notice how there is more spread in the class with the higher standard deviation.
Ask:
So which class did better? [Take response on his fingers 1 vs. 2]
ASR: Class 2 because it had less spread from the mean
Say:
Again, you just need to understand the conceptual meaning. So when there is a greater spread of data relative to the mean, the higher the standard deviation. A low standard deviation when your class has a high average or mean means there isn’t a group of students WAY above or WAY below the mean, which is typically good for student achievement.
Say
To look at this visually check out these scatter plots of the data from each class. Now look at how the data lies in relation to the mean which is indicated by this red line. Notice how there is more spread in the class with the higher standard deviation.
Ask:
So which class did better? [Take response on his fingers 1 vs. 2]
ASR: Class 2 because it had less spread from the mean
Say:
Again, you just need to understand the conceptual meaning. So when there is a greater spread of data relative to the mean, the higher the standard deviation. A low standard deviation when your class has a high average or mean means there isn’t a group of students WAY above or WAY below the mean, which is typically good for student achievement.
"One in a million" joke – remember that all data references rely on their context!
Numbers only have meaning in context. High or low really means nothing without additional information.
"One in a million" joke – remember that all data references rely on their context!
Numbers only have meaning in context. High or low really means nothing without additional information.
"One in a million" joke – remember that all data references rely on their context!
Numbers only have meaning in context. High or low really means nothing without additional information.
"One in a million" joke – remember that all data references rely on their context!
Numbers only have meaning in context. High or low really means nothing without additional information.
Say:
Now that you have the knowledge you need about descriptive statistics, let’s talk about how to specifically use descriptive statistics in your Data Narrative. For distributions: While some of you know about regression models and normally distributed error terms – this is not required for your Data Narrative
However, in your Data Narrative, you WILL show the distribution of your student achievement. You will need to make decisions about how to best show this data through the use of different chats.
Take a moment to review the rubric for this assessment.
Let’s look at few examples to answer the questions:
When is it preferable to use a bar chart?
When is it better to use a histogram?
Review 2 Examples of Histograms
Ask: Histogram: When we talk about “All students’ academic achievement, relative to the Floor and the Goal”, we mean a histogram. What will each column represent?
ASR: The number of students in the range.
Review 2 Examples of Histograms
Ask: Histogram: When we talk about “All students’ academic achievement, relative to the Floor and the Goal”, we mean a histogram. What will each column represent?
ASR: The number of students in the range.
Review 2 Examples of Histograms
Ask: Histogram: When we talk about “All students’ academic achievement, relative to the Floor and the Goal”, we mean a histogram. What will each column represent?
ASR: The number of students in the range.
Review 3 Examples of Bar Graphs
Ask:
When we talk about the “Distribution of Academic Performance for All Students”, we usually mean a bar graph. What will each column represent?
ASR: The performance of the individual student being represented by that bar
Review 3 Examples of Bar Graphs
Ask:
When we talk about the “Distribution of Academic Performance for All Students”, we usually mean a bar graph. What will each column represent?
ASR: The performance of the individual student being represented by that bar
Slide 55: Here we’ve combined Class #1 and Class #2, and we’d still consider this a ‘bar graph’. This is a nice way of looking at the results across both classes.
Say:
Now it’s your turn to create histograms and bar graphs.
Ask:
What does each column represent now?
ASR: Each column represents the number of students in each bin
Give:
G/S’s a minute to complete the histogram for class #1 and class #2.
Ask:
Does this histogram do a good job displaying the results from Class #1 and Class #2? Why or why not?
ASR: It shows distribution, but could be binned better to show performance relative to the AF / AG.
Ask:
Given that 70% is an important threshold for how we measure Standards Mastery (it’s the Achievement Floor), how else could we have binned the frequency table and histogram?
ASR: We could have binned them in groups of 10%
Ask:
Does this histogram do a good job displaying the results from Class #1 and Class #2? Why or why not?
ASR: It shows distribution, but could be binned better to show performance relative to the AF / AG.
Ask:
Given that 70% is an important threshold for how we measure Standards Mastery (it’s the Achievement Floor), how else could we have binned the frequency table and histogram?
ASR: We could have binned them in groups of 10%
Ask:
Does this histogram do a good job displaying the results from Class #1 and Class #2? Why or why not?
ASR: It shows distribution, but could be binned better to show performance relative to the AF / AG.
Ask:
Given that 70% is an important threshold for how we measure Standards Mastery (it’s the Achievement Floor), how else could we have binned the frequency table and histogram?
ASR: We could have binned them in groups of 10%
Say:
So What do we mean by 'distribution'? We mean a visual representation of the data dispersion.
Review:
Need to Know vs. Do Not Need to Know on Slide
Review:
Normal Distribution: The bell curve. The distribution is not really smooth. It’s a line drawn on top of a series of columns representing scores. So for this distribution, the majority of people fell somewhere in the middle, and fewer people fell outside the middle.
Review:
Skewed Distribution: Opposite direction that you would expect. A skewed left distribution is exactly what we want.
Review:
Skewed Distribution: Opposite direction that you would expect. A skewed left distribution is exactly what we want.
Review:
Bimodal Distribution: two modes. Example might be assessment results from a math classroom composed of half ELL and half native speakers – question stems might be difficult for the ELL cohort, and thus there are almost two groups of scores. Or maybe you would notice this trend for students who attend class versus truant students.
Say:
If you're more interested in these distributions and how they work, and why they matter so much for statistics, stay tuned to the end of the session today and we'll talk about ways you can learn more.