Board asks Pasco staff to mark statistically significant changes and add a glossary
Board members asked the district to mark which data changes meet statistical tests (for example with an asterisk) and to add a lay-language glossary; staff agreed to include significance markers and a definitions slide in future reports.
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At the study session a board member asked the district to indicate when a reported change meets a statistical test and to provide lay-language definitions for terms such as alpha and 'significant improvement.' "All I'm asking is for a simple asterisk to say yes, it was significant," the board member said, referencing tests such as the McNemar test and two-proportion Z test.
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