Making Pupil Data Powerful: A Guide for Classroom Teachers: No. 12 (School Effectiveness S.) - Softcover

Pringle, Maggie; Cobb, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855390523 ISBN 13: 9781855390522

Publisher: Network Continuum Education, 1999

Synopsis

<div><font size=2>This book shows teachers in middle and secondary schools how to use pupils' performance data to enhance teaching and learning. It provides practical advice on analysing performance data, measuring progress, predicting future attainment, setting targets and ensuring continuity and progression.

Advice is given on how to:

• analyse class and individual pupil performance and learning behaviours;
  
• measure progress in attainment and pupils' motivation to learn;
  
• predict future pupil attainment;
  
• set targets for improved attainment in class and for personal development;
  
• ensure continuity and progression in learning;
  
• understand and use nationally produced data for schools.

The School Effectiveness Series Making Pupil Data Powerful is the twelfth title in the School Effectiveness series, which focuses on practical and useful ideas for schools and individual teachers.

The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning, and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for those they teach.

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About this title

About the Author

Maggie Pringle taught English for over twenty years and was the headteacher of a large comprehensive school in West London for nine years.She was an Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Comprehensive Schools (CSCS), working with schools nationally on developing and sharing good practice.She now works as an education consultant and trainer, involving making presentations on a range of issues, including analysing pupil performance and target-setting, effective teaching and learning, and issues of gender in raising achievement.

From the Back Cover

The authors recognise the pressures on teachers and aim to help them to get the best from their pupils. They explain how to interpret national initiatives on data-analysis, benchmarking and target-setting and ensure that these have value in the classroom. They propose ways of using pupil performance data to enhance teaching and learning. Drawing on the author's extensive experience of school practice nationally, this book offers practical support to classroom teachers in primary, middle and secondary schools. Using straightforward, manageable techniques for recording data on pupil performance, the book helps busy teachers to interpret the information and to use it to support improved teaching and learning. Advice is given on how to: analyse class and individual pupil performance and learning behaviours; measure progress in attainment and pupils' motivation to learn; predict future pupil attainment; set targets for improved attainment in class and for personal development; ensure continuity and progression in learning; understand and use nationally produced data for schools. The school effectiveness series

Making Pupil Data Powerful is the twelfth title in the School Effectiveness series, which focuses on practical and useful ideas for schools and individual teachers. The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning, and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for those they teach.

From the Inside Flap

The authors recognise the pressures on teachers and aim to help them to get the best from their pupils. They explain how to interpret national initiatives on data-analysis, benchmarking and target-setting and ensure that these have value in the classroom. They propose ways of using pupil performance data to enhance teaching and learning.
Drawing on the authors extensive experience of school practice nationally, this book offers practical support to classroom teachers in primary, middle and secondary schools. Using straightforward, manageable techniques for recording data on pupil performance, the book helps busy teachers to interpret the information and to use it to support improved teaching and learning.
Advice is given on how to:
analyse class and individual pupil performance and learning behaviours;
measure progress in attainment and pupils motivation to learn;
predict future pupil attainment;
set targets for improved attainment in class and for personal development;
ensure continuity and progression in learning;
understand and use nationally produced data for schools.
The school effectiveness series
Making Pupil Data Powerful is the twelfth title in the School Effectiveness series, which focuses on practical and useful ideas for schools and individual teachers. The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning, and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for those they teach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Network Continuum Education
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855390523
• ISBN 13: 9781855390522
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112