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Improving Teaching and Learning with Data-based Decisions: Asking the Right Questions and Acting on the Answers.
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Protheroe, Nancy – ERS Spectrum, 2001
Discusses how to make instructional improvement decisions using data-based assessment. Describes three steps in using data-based assessment: developing the right questions, collecting and analyzing the data, and providing staff support to make effective use of the data. Effective use of assessment data requires both quality data and sufficient…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Databases, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Beyond Test Scores: Edina Public School's Use of Surveys To Collect School Profile and Accountability Data.
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Du, Yi; Fuglesten, Larry – ERS Spectrum, 2001
Discusses Edina School District's School Profiles composed of multiple indicators from student achievement assessment results, school demographic data, and survey responses. Focuses on student, staff, and parent surveys, and shows how the surveys were developed, presented, and used by the schools to support comprehensive and ongoing efforts to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Improving Instruction through Schoolwide Professional Development: Effects of the Data-on-Enacted-Curriculum Model
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Blank, Rolf K.; Smithson, John; Porter, Andrew; Nunnaley, Diana; Osthoff, Eric – ERS Spectrum, 2006
The instructional improvement model Data on Enacted Curriculum was tested with an experimental design using randomized place-based trials. The improvement model is based on using data on instructional practices and achievement to guide professional development and decisions to refocus on instruction. The model was tested in 50 U.S. middle schools…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, State Standards, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change