The 2014/15 CDL Tournament Reporting Notebook following CDL Tournament Five (T5) has four sheets.

The first sheet — Participation Standard — reports on attainment of the CDL Participation Standard — 8 debaters per school per tournament, 4 debaters per school per tournament for first-year schools. Y means the standard was met, N means it was not met, NS means that the school “no showed,” and NA means that the school is not yet activated so the standard doesn’t yet apply.

Attainment of the Participation Standard is the single most important performance metric in the Chicago Debate League. Attainment means your debate program is healthy, that it’s thriving educationally by engaging with a number of students that justifies the investment in financial and human resources that is being made. Attaining the Participation at 80% or more tournaments during the year should be every school’s objective here.

The second sheet — Participation Numbers — ranks schools based on tournament participation throughout the season. The “tournament debaters” numbers include only Tournament One for now, but after Tournament Two it will include additional CDL events (this weekend’s Allstate Invitational, the CDC scholarships to summer debate institutes, the 2014 CDSI), and non-CDL events (National Circuit tournaments). Each school can see where it ranks in relation to all other schools on this very important metric — how many students are participating and competing in our rigorous debate tournaments.

The third sheet — Participation Changes (Adjusted) (S, for Schools) — ranks schools based on the change in schools’ tournament participation when comparing this year’s tournament participation to last year’s. It plugs in an artificial SY2014 “baseline” of 4 debaters per tournament for schools that are new to the CDL this year (or which joined the CDL last year after T1), so that they can be included in this “growth” metric.

The fourth sheet — Expanding Opportunities Incentives — is the same as the third sheet, except that it is limited to schools eligible for Allstate Expanding Opportunities Incentives, i.e., those schools with 70% or higher Title I student percentage. Allstate Expanding Opportunities Incentives are given to schools for increasing their student participation in competitive academic debate in SY2015 over SY2014 (or over the participation benchmark if they are new in SY2014).

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The 2014/15 CMSDL Tournament Reporting Notebook.

The first sheet — Participation Standard — reports on attainment of the CMSDL Participation Standard — 8 debaters per school per tournament, 4 debaters per school per tournament for first-year schools. Y means the standard was met, N means it was not met, NS means that the school “no showed,” and NA means that the school is not yet activated so the standard doesn’t yet apply.

Attainment of the Participation Standard is the single most important performance metric in the Chicago Middle School Debate League. Attainment means your debate program is healthy, that it’s thriving educationally by engaging with a number of students that justifies the investment in financial and human resources that is being made. Attaining the Participation at 80% or more tournaments during the year should be every school’s objective here.

The second sheet — Participation Numbers — ranks schools based on tournament participation throughout the season. The “tournament debaters” numbers include only Tournament One for now, but after Tournament Two it will include additional CDL events (this weekend’s Allstate Invitational, the CDC scholarships to summer debate institutes, the 2014 CMSDSI), and non-CDL events (National Circuit tournaments). Each school can see where it ranks in relation to all other schools on this very important metric — how many students are participating and competing in our rigorous debate tournaments.

The third sheet — Participation Changes (Adjusted) (S, for Schools) — ranks schools based on the change in schools’ tournament participation when comparing this year’s tournament participation to last year’s. It plugs in an artificial SY2014 “baseline” of 4 debaters per tournament for schools that are new to the CDL this year (or which joined the CMSDL last year after T1), so that they can be included in this “growth” metric.

The fourth sheet (which will be added at a later date) — Expanding Opportunities Incentives — is the same as the fourth sheet, except that it is limited to schools eligible for Allstate Expanding Opportunities Incentives, i.e., those schools with 70% or higher Title I student percentage. Allstate Expanding Opportunities Incentives are given to schools for increasing their student participation in competitive academic debate in SY2015 over SY2014 (or over the participation benchmark if they are new in SY2014).

Current Leader Boards for CMSDL