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Lecturette 2: Steps to Improve Data Use

Lecturette 2: Steps to Improve Data Use. Provide safeguards. Make the case. Don’t put all of the weight on a single test. Place more emphasis on comparisons of performance from year to year. Consider both value added and status in the system. Recognize, evaluate, and report.

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Lecturette 2: Steps to Improve Data Use

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  1. Lecturette 2:Steps to Improve Data Use

  2. Provide safeguards. Make the case. Don’t put all of the weight on a single test. Place more emphasis on comparisons of performance from year to year. Consider both value added and status in the system. Recognize, evaluate, and report. Put a system in place. Enhance Credibility and Validity of Assessments Robert Linn Educational Researcher March 2000 pp. 4-16 Vol. 29 No. 2

  3. Standards, Assessment, and Instruction • Are they aligned?(Rationale) • To what extent do teachers understand, teach to, and assess standards consistently? (Observe, discuss, listen)

  4. The Knowledge and Skill Level of Staff • In what ways is ongoing learning embedded into the school and district culture? • Sit in on and observe patterns of at least 3 grade level team meetings. Look for patterns.

  5. How do staff members demonstrate high expectations for all students? School Culture

  6. Who’s Teaching and Learning? • Does the school shift the focus from teaching, to student AND teacher learning?

  7. Questions for Schoolsto Help Them Use Data Well • How is time used in the building? • How often do teachers examine practices? • What kind of discussions and observations occur? • What are the mentoring practices? • How are topics for workshops developed? • Who does technical assistance?

  8. Study new approaches to meet the needs of all students.

  9. Why look? • There is evidence that examining student work provides benefits for teaching and learning. The “Evidence Project” developed by Harvard Project Zero Phi Delta Kappan November, 2003 pp.185-192 Judith Warren Little, Maryl Gearhart, Marnie Curry, Judith Kafka

  10. Common elements of practice to improve use of data • Bring teachers together • Get student work on the table • Structure the conversation • Develop protocols

  11. Stay Focused! • Manage tools • Apply subject expertise • Balance • Facilitate

  12. Improving Practice

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