Module 3: Sources of Data

Recognize the difference between the unit of data analysis at the classroom level and the student level and why this distinction matters to improve and personalize learning.

Identify and prioritize data sources in preparation for blended instruction.

Asynchronous Session: Priority Data Measures & Shifts

Step 1: Watch: Shifting the Unit of Analysis - screencast
Step 2: Read: The Learning Accelerator article about the key shifts and mindsets that support a Data Culture, Crafting a Data Vision; It is critical that education teams have a clear and shared vision for how they want to use data to improve student learning.
Step 3: Reflection Questions: Priority Data Measures & Shifts. Respond to the following questions on this Figjam board | Facilitators make a copy to capture reflections or create a padlet.
- 1) Which data sources may be most aligned to this shift in the unit of analysis from the classroom level to the student level? What makes you say that?
- 2) What might you need to start doing or do differently in order to shift toward the unit of analysis at the student level?

Activity Materials

Mini Lesson_Shifting the Unit of Analysis.mp4

Shifting the Unit of Analysis Screencast

Synchronous Session: Research Insight Data Sources Do's

Research Insight

Step through the Research Insight Data Source Do's*
Consider our current context and areas of priority and need

Research Insight: Data Source Do's

Data Sources Takeaways Synthesis

Which of the takeaways (one of the do’s above) regarding data sources most resonates in your context? What makes you say that?

Asynchronous Session: Data Inventory Introductions & Preparations (complete before the start of day 2)

Step 1: RBL overview video describing what is a data inventory. Video (1:18 min)
Step 2: Listen to DataWise Case Study Clip (7:10-9:02) to hear elementary campus leaders communicate the purpose and value of a data inventory and the process they follow to build and refine the campus inventory.

Step 3 (PMs & Campus Leaders Only): Prepare Your Campus Level Data Inventory
- Pull up your campus data inventory linked in the Google site
- Please add or revise your Data Inventory as needed so that it is current.
- The goal is not to list every source of data available for consideration. Instead, we want you to list and describe the sources most useful for driving personalized instruction in a blended context.

*SOURCE: edX Course: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:HarvardX+GSE3x+2T2020/course/
Boudett, K.P., City, E.A., & Murnane, R. J. (Eds.). (2013). Data Wise, revised and expanded edition: A step-by-step guide to using assessment results to improve teaching and learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Overview Data Inventory Template.mp4

Data Inventory Overview

Synchronous Session: Data Inventory

Opener Day 2 - Data Inventory "Noticings"

As you come in please respond to the Figjam file | Facilitators make a copy or create custom padlet to capture responses

Getting Started with A Data Inventory

“For any measure, decision-makers should be asking: How could this information be used well and what is that going to take --for example, support for professional learning and instructional guidance? How could the data be used poorly, and how do we protect against that --for example tracking students into low-level content or labeling students in ways that are stigmatizing?”*
(30 min) Data Inventory Pressure test:

Use the Data Source Pressure Test questions (at the bottom of the Data Inventory) to refine your Data Inventory, identify 3 priority data sources, and determine specific next steps related to your prioritized data sources.

*Source: Learning as We Go: Principles for Effective Assessment During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Robin Lake and Lynne Olson, CRPE (Center on Reinventing Public Education), https://www.crpe.org/sites/default/files/final_diagnostics_brief_2020.pdf, July 2020.

Data Inventory

Activity Materials

Make a Copy

Data Inventory Template with Pressure Test

One file per campus/content team OR District may use a previously created data inventory as a starting point

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