Data Wise: A Step-By-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning

ISBN 10: 1891792687 ISBN 13: 9781891792687

Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2013

Synopsis

"Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning "presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools abilities to capture teachers knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate. This revised and expanded edition captures the learning that has emerged in integrating the Data Wise process into school practice and brings the book up-to-date with recent developments in education and technology including: The shift to the Common Core State Standards.New material on the ACE Habits of Mind: practices that prioritize Action, Collaboration, and Evidence as part of transforming school culture.A new chapter on How We Improve, based on experiences implementing Data Wise and to address two common questions: Where do I start? and How long will it take? Other revisions take into account changes in the roles of school data teams and instructional leadership teams in guiding the inquiry process. The authors have also updated exhibits, examples, and terminology throughout and have added new protocols and resources."

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Review

This book provides a great variety of useful ideas and tools for analyzing student achievement data. It serves as a significant resource for school leaders in utilizing data to improve instruction and student achievement. Gerald N. Tirozzi, former executive director, National Association of Secondary School Principals"

About the Author

Kathryn Parker Boudett is a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and director of the Data Wise Project. Elizabeth A. City is director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program and a lecturer on education at HGSE. Richard J. Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891792687
• ISBN 13: 9781891792687
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Boudett Kathryn Parker, City Dr Elizabeth A, Murnane Professor Richard J