Organizing, Collecting, Validating

Data
Characterization
 Suggested Steps in Organizing & Collecting /Validating Data

1. Using your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), prepare your dashboard.

2. To fully understand your KPIs, breakdown your KPIs into sub-KPIs.

3. Organise your sub-KPIs by grade level or subject areas.

4. For each sub-KPI and grade level or subject area, sort the performance
of the school using Segmentation technique.

5. Organize your data using the segments. Characterize each segment

using the K-12 Curriculum Support System.
 School Segment

Subject - Low MPS

Curriculum Support System Least Mastered Competencies

Materials, School Leadership Schools Division Community, Industry

Facilities, ICT Assessment & Management TA Relevance &
Teachers Equipment Environment Partnership

Data to Sort
Community
Learners access Instructional
Frequency of involvements
Competencies covered Learners access to to internet Tests administered supervision
assistance to schools
materials
Knowledge of School’s use of local
Contact time Teachers use of ICT Frequency of test
Learners “contact time” curriculum resources
in teaching &
on use of equipment, learning
Teachers teaching skills
laboratory Type of assistance
Content versus Competencies on provided to schools Linkages to learning
Teachers use of learning ICT awareness in assessed Education planning • subject areas institutions
materials Congestions school • assessment
Understanding of • planning & M&E
Care & use of equipment Linkages to industries
Teachers use of classroom inclusive education • program
Use of blended
assessment management
learning
• etc
Access to library Implementation of
Content mastery SBM

Actual Support Provided by SDO to School

Training provided to
teachers Distribution of learning Support provided by the Training and technical
Support provided by the Assistance provided by
resources and facilities SDO on Classroom support provided to SHs on
SDO on ICT in education the EPS to schools on
Assessment instructional supervision?
Recruitment & linkaging, partnerships
use of new curriculum? on
Placement
SBM?

Capability of the SDO to provide technical assistance to schools on the following: training support to teachers on subject
areas, teaching skills, classroom assessment, and program implementation, support school heads on instructional
supervision, SBM and program implementation, manage equitable distribution of learning facilities and resources, and
linking and networking
Avoid the following Statements
• Avoid using lack of, inadequate and other related statements. A
problem or situation is not an absence of a pre-conceived solution

• Avoid sweeping statements, generalizations and value-laden

statements

• Do not make judgmental statements

• Describe the problem as you see them (phenomenological

approach)
 Sample
Characterization Statements
Teacher

• 11 teachers said that teaching is not their first choice.

• 3 teachers admitted that they used bad words in dealing with

misbehaving students in the classroom.

• 10 teachers admitted that they are not implementing DORP

because they don’t know the mechanics of the program.

• 3 out of 7 teachers teaching Araling Panlipunan are non-

majors of the subject
Teachers’ use of Learning Materials

• Majority of the teachers do the “chalk-talk” method of

teaching. They do not use other materials as reinforcement
in their teaching. This is based on the observations of those
who monitor classes.

During the classroom observation, an entire 45 min. was

devoted to lecture with the teacher seated and occasionally
standing to write an illustration on the blackboard
Environmental Impediments

• The school is situated in the Poblacion with easy access

to some amusements such as computer games, billiards,
and large malls. It is in the center of the poblacion
fronting business centers and walking distance from a big
mall.
Programs

• The school offers Special Science Class (SSTC), under the

DOST-ESEP, with 3 sections. It also offers Special Program
for the Arts (SPA) with 1 section and the School of the
Future (SOF) also with 1 section. On the other hand the
school has 21 sections in the regular curriculum.

• Based on the track record of the school, it has maintained

excellent performance in these special program offerings
Achievements

• The school has received many awards/recognitions

in various contests because of the Special Science
Class and other program offerings but very low in
National Achievement Test (NAT) as reported
School Leadership
• The school consistently got the lowest in four subject areas
(Filipino, A.P., Math, Science, English) and in overall results.
• It is headed by a Principal but has not stayed longer than 1 year
due to promotion.
• The school head observes classes and checks class records only
once a month due to attendance to trainings and financial
liquidation in the division office
• The school head has completed the School Head Development
Program
• The school has only one Head Teacher that looks after the 20
teachers
Students’ Attitude
• 25 students who were interviewed said that they are not
truly serious about their studies because of their belief that
they are not going to pursue higher education after high
school. For them, to learn just “how to read and write” is
enough, not conscious about what quality education can
do for them.
• 10% of the student population live in far-flung barangays
and have limited contact time with their classes because
of absences due to very far distance of their residences
from school and some of them help their families to earn a
living.
• 2 students in Grade 8 claimed that they dropped due to
teachers giving negative comments every time they report
to school once they were absent.
• 6 students in Grade 7 claimed that they were blamed by
the teachers on the misbehavior of their classmates. (Bad
influence)
• 1 student said that his teacher imposed corporal
punishment (the learner stood the whole duration of their
class because he was late).
Materials, Facilities, and Equipment

The Security guard was interviewed and he said that:

• he cannot control the going out of students during class
hours because of incomplete perimeter fence.
• the school has no Guard House with CR so he leaves his
post from time to time for his personal necessities.
• he could not hold the students inside the school
campus during recess time because the school has no
School Canteen.
Schools Division Office Technical Assistance

• As per school guest book, the Division TA Team or EPSs has

only visited the school once in SY 2016-17

• The school head regularly attends the District meeting called

by the District Supervisor every month to discuss report
submissions and other administrative and PPA related
concerns
Let’s now characterize the segments…….