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Administrative data items for SY 22-23 from the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website have been added to certain measures on the MCIEA School Quality Measures (SQM) Dashboard!
The MCIEA School Quality Measures (SQM) Dashboard now includes SY 22-23 student and teacher/staff survey data, as well as available SY 22-23 administrative data items from the MA DESE website for many measures.
The SQM framework has been built around multiple measures, which include academic, social-emotional, and school culture indicators, in order to piece together a fairer and more comprehensive picture of school performance, and can be used as a starting point for understanding school strengths and areas for growth.
The Analyze Tab at the top of the site allows users to select one or more School Years of data to view trends over time for each survey scale.
Data filters can also disaggregate student results from teacher results, and sort student data by grade level, race, and gender subgroups to allow more in-depth analysis of SQM survey data.
What is the MCIEA School Quality Measures (SQM) Dashboard?
MCIEA's School Quality Measures (SQM) framework aims to describe the full measure of what makes a good school, free of the narrowness and racial bias of standardized test scores.
MCIEA sought input from stakeholders in each consortium district to build a school quality framework that reflects what the public wants to know about their schools. We then created and/or modified survey instruments to address key aspects of our school quality framework and identified related administrative data points to understand holistic school quality.
The SQM dashboard presents results from student and teacher surveys as well as administrative data collection in each school. Importantly, results are never used as a method for ranking schools against each other, but instead as a starting point for understanding school strengths and areas for growth.