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Released: September 2009
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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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Make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement.
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Teach students to examine their own data and set learning goals.
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Establish a clear vision for schoolwide data use.
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Provide supports that foster a data-driven culture within the school.
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Develop and maintain a districtwide data system.
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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.

  • Laura Hamilton (Chair)
    RAND Corporation
  • Richard Halverson
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Sharnell S. Jackson
    Chicago Public Schools
  • Ellen Mandinach
    CNA Education
  • Jonathan A. Supovitz
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Jeffrey C. Wayman
    The University of Texas at Austin

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