FELE FELE Data-Driven Decision Making 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A school leader uses a balanced scorecard. Which four perspectives does this framework typically include?
- Financial, community, staffing, and curriculum
- Financial, customer, internal processes, and learning/growth (Correct answer)
- Budget, equity, safety, and achievement
- Governance, instruction, communication, and resources
Correct answer: Financial, customer, internal processes, and learning/growth
The balanced scorecard framework measures performance across financial, customer, internal process, and learning/growth dimensions.
Question 2: When presenting data to faculty, a principal should PRIMARILY ensure that:
- Only positive results are shared to maintain morale
- Data is presented in ways that protect individual teacher identity while enabling group analysis (Correct answer)
- Raw spreadsheets are distributed without context
- Data is limited to state test scores only
Correct answer: Data is presented in ways that protect individual teacher identity while enabling group analysis
Aggregated, anonymized presentations allow honest analysis without placing blame on individuals, supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
Question 3: Florida's Education Data Warehouse (EDW) is BEST used by school leaders to:
- Store teacher personnel files
- Access longitudinal student performance data across multiple years and assessments (Correct answer)
- Manage payroll and benefits
- Track facilities maintenance requests
Correct answer: Access longitudinal student performance data across multiple years and assessments
The EDW aggregates student-level longitudinal data from multiple sources to support data-driven decision making at all levels.
Question 4: A school's reading proficiency rate dropped 8 points. Before drawing conclusions, the principal should:
- Issue a public statement accepting responsibility
- Check whether the assessment instrument or proficiency cut scores changed (Correct answer)
- Immediately restructure the reading department
- Survey parents about their satisfaction with reading instruction
Correct answer: Check whether the assessment instrument or proficiency cut scores changed
Changes in assessment instruments or cut scores can explain score fluctuations and must be ruled out before attributing drops to instructional causes.
Question 5: Which measure of central tendency is MOST affected by extreme outlier scores in a data set?
- Mode
- Median
- Mean (Correct answer)
- Range
Correct answer: Mean
The mean incorporates every data point, so extreme outliers pull it significantly higher or lower than the median or mode.
Question 6: A principal wants to evaluate whether a new tutoring program caused improved reading scores. The most rigorous design would include:
- Pre- and post-test scores for participating students only
- A comparison group of similar students who did not receive tutoring (Correct answer)
- Teacher surveys about program satisfaction
- An analysis of attendance rates alone
Correct answer: A comparison group of similar students who did not receive tutoring
A comparison group allows the leader to attribute score changes to the intervention rather than to maturation or external factors.
FELE FELE Data-Driven Decision Making 2
A school leader uses a balanced scorecard.
Which four perspectives does this framework typically include?