What protocols and/or processes will you use to explore your area of inquiry? Effective protocols and/or processes should do the following:

• • 1. Engage participants with sorting, prioritizing, and reframing questions, to help them clearly define a challenge statement.

    2. Allow participants to safely share thinking and questions with each other

    3. Help participants make connections between current and previous areas of inquiry

    4. Encourage discussion about possible ways to learn more

    5. Prompt participants to make predictions about possible outcomes or answers

    6. Do your data sets include measures of multiple types of data (Achievement, Demographic, Perception, and Process) within the three focus areas (Academic, Non-academic, and Systems)? What might you consider adding?

Select Data:

• • Depending on the area of inquiry selected, choose from a variety of pre-built data set templates. Data templates are organized into three categories aligning to different broad areas of focus (Academic, Non-Academic, Systems).

  • Each data set template will present a different set of data objects related to the area of inquiry. You will also be able to delete data objects from the data set and/or add local data objects related to the area of inquiry.

  • Use your data protocol to analyze your data, looking for patterns and trends.

  • What additional data might add important information to your data story? Identify, collect, and analyze additional data not in the system (if any). Adding additional local data objects will create a new data set template based on the original template without altering the original template.

  • Summarize data findings to create an Initial Data Analysis Summary. What does your data say?