Data-Driven & Continuously Assessed

The wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students1, using data gained from methods to make effective instructional decisions.

Why is this important?

“In this era of increased accountability, it is important to use data to help drive instructional decisions. Most schools that see rapid improvement almost always cite data-driven instruction as one of the most important practices contributing to their success.” - ASCD Express Ben Fenton and Mark Murphy

Assessing a student is a continuous process. When we think about this process it is important to understand that it is on a continuum. Assessing a student can take on many forms: “such as formal versus informal, process versus product, norm-referenced versus criterion-referenced, and formative versus summative.” - Solution Tree Blog, Anne Meek & Carol E. Canady

What are some reliable resources to support classroom implementation?

• Setting Up a Data Driven Culture - Illuminate Education, Mark Adato, May 25, 2017

• Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making - Institute of Education Sciences (What Works Clearinghouse), September 2009

• The Many Positive Uses for Assessment - Achieve the Core

• Data Driven Instruction - ASCD, Ben Fenton and Mark Murphy

• What Works: Continuous Assessment and Interval Grading - Solution Tree Blog, Anne Meek and Carol E. Canady