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Farlow, Leslie J.; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1991
Students with severe/profound mental retardation performed functional tasks under training or probe conditions. Analysis of nine students' records indicated that students do not react to probe conditions as if they were extinction conditions; training data do not consistently reflect performance under probe conditions; and data collected under…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Performance Factors, Severe Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSchmoker, Mike – Educational Leadership, 2003
Calls for simplicity when presenting data on student achievement. Data should help teachers improve teaching and learning, and focus on specific goals such as determining how many students are succeeding in a subject and, within that subject, what are the areas of strength or weakness. (Contains 22 references.) (WFA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2003
Discusses which kinds of data educators should respect and which they should reject. Asserts that most state accountability tests fail to produce the kinds of data that will improve teaching and learning. Teachers can get the data they need from their own instructionally useful classroom assessments. (WFA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Data Analysis, Data Collection
