WISEdash for Districts User Guide: Achievement Gap

Purpose of the Achievement Gap Dashboard

Use the Achievement Gap Dashboard to find gaps in performance between a target group (generally a minority group) and a comparison group (generally a majority group) at school, district, and state levels. Groups include race/ethnicity, gender, economic status, disability status, and English proficiency. Graphs include the Forward Exam, ACT statewide assessments and attendance rates. There are two dashboards:

• The Single Year Dashboard displays gaps for all applicable student groups for a single year.
• The Achievement Gap Trends Dashboard displays gaps over time for a single target and comparison group.

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View data in the Achievement Gap Dashboards

NOTE: Only WISEdash users with specific roles have access to student level detail.

1. From the WISEhome and WISEsecure Login Information page, log in to WISEhome.
2. Open WISEdash for Districts.
3. Click Dashboards.
4. Click Advanced Analysis.
5. Under the Achievement Gap header, select Achievement Gap to see data from a single year, or select Achievement Gap Trends to see data over time.
   • To switch between achievement gap dashboards, notice that this only requires one click once you have opened one of them. The other dashboard and the dashboard documentation ("How to use Achievement Gap Dashboards") appear in the toolbar just above the title of the dashboard you are currently using.

Filter the data

1. In the dashboard, there may be a message underneath the filters that says "You must select values from the following filters before the dashboard can be displayed."
   • If you have not yet selected a District or a Grade in your current WISEdash for Districts session, then you have a message instructing you to select from that filter.
2. In each dashboard, notice which filters are preselected. Click Filter Data to change the value of each of these filters as needed. Preselected filters include:
   • School Year: [current school year]
   • Comparison Race/Ethnicity: White
   • Subject: English Language Arts (ELA)
   • Small Groups: Hide (recommended)
   • Target Group: Students with Disabilities (SwD)
   • Comparison Group: Students without Disabilities (SwoD)

View the data as a table

1. Click on any data point in the graph to see the data in table form.
2. Click the name of a column header in the table to sort by that column.
3. Click the three horizontal lines  next to a column header to filter the data for certain values in that column.
4. Above the table's filters, click Back to Achievement Gap [dashboard name] to return to the graph view.

Get more information about the data

1. Above the graphs in each dashboard, click Achievement Gap Help and Resources and Notes to better understand the data in these dashboards.
2. Next to each graph, click the More info icon to view the graph as a pop-up window. The tabs at the top of the pop-up window display:
   • Content: a graph of the data
   • Data: a table of the data in chronological order
   • Definitions: terms that define aspects of this data
3. Click Close in the lower right or X in the upper right to close this window and return to the Assessment Summary screen.
4. If you have more questions about this data, like "How is effect size calculated?" or "What if one of the bars in my graph is negative?", visit the About the Data: Achievement Gap Dashboards page.

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Resources

• WISEdata Reference Guide for Administrators
• WISEdash Info, Help and FAQ: Home page for WISEdash for Districts.
• WISEdash About the Data: Pages describing the data for all WISEdash for Districts topics.
• Data Privacy: Home page for DPI training around resources around student privacy.
• WISE homepage: A great place to get started if you are new to WISE applications.
• Consider joining our WISE Community,, a Microsoft Teams channel where you can read up on current topics and post questions.
• Would you like to ask questions directly to a Partner Support team member? We also host a recurring WISE User Group Webinar! Join us!

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