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Data collection and analysis is one of your most important roles as a teacher—it can help you solve your most challenging classroom issues and unlock answers to questions about a certain situation or student.
But sometimes data collection can seem like an intimidating prospect, especially when you’ve got so much else on your plate. When it comes to collecting and analyzing data effectively, where should you start? What are the critical steps you should follow to ensure success?
Teachers have access to more quality data than ever, on factors like student performance, behavior, attendance, and more. When used along with pedagogy, content knowledge, and professional judgment, these data can be used to improve outcomes for kids.
How Data Helps Teachers
How Data Helps Teachers
In this video and infographic, you can follow one teacher, Ms. Bullen, and one of her students, Joey, through the school year to see how data help teachers, parents, and others make sure students are meeting education goals.
3TypesofAssessmentData.pdf
The days of using data in schools once a year are over. If continuous improvement is the goal, then there is little point in examining only one source of data, state test results, which often become available only after students have moved on to the next grade and it is too late to do anything about them.
Data-literate teachers use a variety of different kinds of data, some on a daily basis, some monthly or quarterly, and some annually, to continuously improve instruction and engage in collaborative inquiry.
These include both formative and summative assessments. Formative assessments are assessments for learning and happen while learning is still under way and throughout teaching and learning to diagnose needs, plan next steps, and provide students with feedback. Summative assessments are assessments of learning and happen after learning is supposed to have occurred to determine if it did (Stiggins, Arter, Chappuis, & Chappuis, 2004, p. 31).
Data To-Dos'
Data To-Dos'
🗓️ Plan to discuss your data with your principal at your APPR meetings. Bring what you used to collect your students' S.T.O.R.Ys as well as any questions or obstacles you have run into. This meeting will be a time to make a personal plan for your next steps as we continue to explore data together.
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