Practice Guide
Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making
This guide offers five recommendations to help educators effectively use data to monitor students’ academic progress and evaluate instructional practices. The guide recommends that schools set a clear vision for schoolwide data use, develop a data-driven culture, and make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement. The guide also recommends teaching students how to use their own data to set learning goals.
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Topics: Grades:
Topics: Grades:
Audience:
- Administrators
- Policymakers
- Researchers
- School Specialist
- Teacher
This practice guide was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-07-CO-0062.
The following research staff contributed to the guide: Cassie Pickens Jewell, Emily Sama-Miller, and Sarah Wissel.
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Laura Hamilton
(Chair)
RAND Corporation -
Richard Halverson
University of Wisconsin–Madison -
Sharnell S. Jackson
Chicago Public Schools
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Ellen Mandinach
CNA Education -
Jonathan A. Supovitz
University of Pennsylvania -
Jeffrey C. Wayman
The University of Texas at Austin
This protocol guided the review of research that informed the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making, published in September 2009.