Data wise : a step-by-step guide to using assessment results to improve teaching and learning / edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, Richard J. Murnane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boudett, Kathryn Parker.

City, Elizabeth A.

Murnane, Richard J.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational evaluation--United States--Case studies.

Educational evaluation.

Education--Standards--United States--Case studies.

Education.

Education--Data processing--Case studies.

Education--Data processing.

Education--Standards.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, 2013.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Organizing for collaborative work

Building assessment literacy

Creating a data overview

Digging into data

Examining instruction

Developing an action plan

Planning to assess progress

Acting and assessing

Roles for the district central office

How we improve.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

161250521X

9781612505213

9781612505220

1612505228

OCLC:

826451837

Publisher Number:

99956852982