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Direct linkDylan Wiliam; Douglas Fisher; Nancy Frey – Corwin, 2024
What if there was a better way to collect and interpret assessment data that could strengthen the link between teaching and learning? "Student Assessment: Better Evidence, Better Decisions, Better Learning" is the innovative guide to show you how it is done and done right. This unique book offers a new assessment model focused on…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Data Collection, Evidence Based Practice, Data Use
Steven Snead – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Data-based decision-making has been a frequently used policy and practice intervention used in schools to help inform the decision-making processes of educational practitioners, with the aim of improving student outcomes. Interim benchmark assessments are designed by commercial test developers to support educators in this framework. In fact, the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Data Analysis, Educational Practices, Decision Making
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Download full textRegan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anya S.; Hutchison, Amy; Day, Jamie; Stephens, Madelyn; Verbiest, Courtney; Gafurov, Boris – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
The process of analyzing student data to determine an appropriate instructional decision is crucial for student academic growth. This article details how teachers can make data-driven decisions to carefully design writing instruction. Steps are presented for teachers to follow throughout the data driven decision-making process in order to meet…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Decision Making, Essays, Data Analysis
State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2021
Data modernization and security practices allow educational leaders to provide accurate, secure, and timely data that can be securely exchanged, shared, and connected in order to provide instant understanding of school performance, student attendance, academic performance, or funding from multiple sources. This matters because: (1) Data…
Descriptors: Data, Information Security, Student Records, Learning Analytics
Divya Varier; Sehyun Yun – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
The article describes a systematic review of 109 studies using the data-informed decision-making framework to understand the sources of assessment data and the main purposes for assessment use among early childhood educators. Findings revealed assessment use is driven by the purposes of measuring and monitoring children's learning and development,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Data Use, Decision Making, Early Childhood Teachers
Thomas R. Guskey, Editor; Cassandra Erkens, Contributor; Katie White, Contributor; Mandy Stalets, Contributor; Garnet Hillman, Contributor; Tim Brown, Contributor; Tom Hierck, Contributor; Tom Schimmer, Contributor; Sharon V. Kramer, Contributor; Sarah Schuhl, Contributor; Anthony R. Reibel, Contributor; Joellen Killion, Contributor – Solution Tree, 2025
In "The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition," editor Thomas R. Guskey and expert contributors offer research-backed strategies for re-envisioning assessment to enhance student learning and teacher instruction. The authors provide actionable steps, practical examples, and strategies for utilizing formative assessments. These…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Formative Evaluation, Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice
Fonya Crockett Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In an increasingly data-driven society, making decisions with data is a requirement not only for research scientists but also for navigating life more generally (Kjelvik & Schultheis, 2019). An informed citizenry must be prepared to discover patterns, predict outcomes, make decisions with data, and evaluate data-based claims for legitimacy and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Data Use, Decision Making, Student Evaluation
Guenter, Cris – National Art Education Association, 2019
The teaching performance expectations and assignments that preservice art teachers currently address in field experiences and in their coursework are designed to help them meet the expectations of being a quality art educator in the 21st century. These assignments may be very different from the assignments that art educators had in their…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Data Collection, Art Education
Hushman, Glenn Foster; Hushman, Carolyn J.; Gaudreault, Karen Lux – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
Lawson (1983a) offered that an individuals' experiences as students in schools are significant in shaping their views of teaching. Pajares (1992) argued that a teacher's perceptions of the classroom are a product of their experiences as students. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between physical education (PE) pre-service…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
Key Student Nodes Mining in the In-Class Social Network Based on Combined Weighted GRA-TOPSIS Method
Shou, Zhaoyu; Tang, Mengxue; Wen, Hui; Liu, Jinghua; Mo, Jianwen; Zhang, Huibing – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2023
In this paper, a key node mining algorithm of entropy-CRITIC combined weighted GRA-TOPSIS method is proposed, which is based on the network structure features. First, the method obtained multi-dimensional data of students' identities, seating relationships, social relationships, and so on to build a database. Then, the seating similarity among…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Algorithms, Network Analysis, Databases
Schweig, Jonathan; McEachin, Andrew; Kuhfeld, Megan; Mariano, Louis T.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay – RAND Corporation, 2021
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. In spring 2020, as schools went to remote learning formats or closed completely, end-of-year assessment programs ground to a halt. As a result, schools began the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Characteristics
Jonathan Schweig; Andrew McEachin; Megan Kuhfeld; Louis T. Mariano; Melissa Kay Diliberti – Grantee Submission, 2021
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. In spring 2020, as schools went to remote learning formats or closed completely, end-of-year assessment programs ground to a halt. As a result, schools began the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Characteristics
Arnold, Jessica; Crane, Eric W. – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2021
In the summer and fall months of a "typical" year, many education leaders would receive reports of student performance on annual summative state assessments administered each spring. Using these data, administrators begin a process of sense-making -- identifying areas that need support and integrating new information offered by the data…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data Use, Student Evaluation, COVID-19
Maria de Lourdes Viloria; Cynthia Gallardo; Ricardo Lozano; Lina de la Garza – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2025
This study focuses on the culturally responsive leadership practices of a South Texas school principal. Texas ranks second out of 10 states with the highest emergent bilingual enrollment. Culturally responsive leadership integrates a dynamic view of the socio-political and cultural contexts in a school setting. As the student population becomes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Principals, Decision Making, Data Use
Rebecka Rundquist; Kristina Holmberg; John Rack; Zeynab Mohseni; Italo Masiello – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024
The generation, use, and analysis of educational data comes with many promises and opportunities, especially where digital materials allow usage of learning analytics (LA) as a tool in data-based decision-making (DBDM). However, there are questions about the interplay between teachers, students, context, and technology. Therefore, this paper…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Data Analysis
