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Using Aspen for Running Record Data

The West Warwick Public Schools uses Aspen to store local assessment data. This data is important in helping educators plan for the next steps in a student's educational journey. In this blog post, we'll explore how to enter running record data from a teacher's perspective, a reading specialist's perspective, how to query, and analyze the data collected.

How to Enter Running Record Data From a Teacher's Perspective

The short video below explains the process for entering Running Record data from a classroom teacher's perspective. Teachers can use the Assessment Entry option in Aspen from their Staff View in Aspen. This is the most efficient way for teachers to enter this data into Aspen.

You can also review the print directions by clicking on the image below.

How to Enter Running Record Data From a Reading Specilist's Perspective

The short video below explains the process for entering Running Record data from a reading specialist's perspective. Reading specialists can use the Assessment Entry option in Aspen from their School View in Aspen. This is the most efficient way for reading specialists to enter this data into Aspen.

We've Entered Data, Now What?

Once we've entered data into Aspen for students the next step is to analyze the data. We can analyze data for individual students, a class of students, the grade level or the entire school. We'll use Aspen's query tools and quick charts for some simple analysis.

How to Build a Query to View Running Records

Aspen has some very powerful query tools to review assessment data. The query tool in Aspen is a powerful tool and allows us to search through and filter a wide range of data sets. I will attempt to share how to build a query, save a query and build some advanced queries within Aspen. In the following example, we will review how to build a date range query in our running record data. In this example, we're trying to view running record data in the school view from the administration of the running records that took place from 02.28.2018 to 06.30.2018. The video below illustrates the step-by-step process of building the query.

Once the data has been filtered you can further define the query, build some quick charts or export the data to be further analyzed in Google Sheets. Click on the image below to access the print directions for running a query in Aspen.

Using the Aspen Filter to Access Advanced Queries

Review the video below to access how to use the Aspen filter tool for advanced saved queries.

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