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NCREL has gathered a selection of web-based tools for collecting information, ranging from checklists to surveys, and including information about software tools for data collection and analysis. A tutorial provides an overview of the use of data in school improvement; a bibliography and background section are also included.

It is ethically imperative that educators develop assessment strategies that ensure equity in assessing and interpreting student performance.

This report addresses some of these issues by summarizing findings from an exploratory study of the school-based assessment practices in a sample of elementary, middle, and secondary schools. The purposes of the study were twofold: (1) to add to the growing base of knowledge about how schools use student assessment data obtained from multiple sources to inform important decisions about programs, instruction, and individual students; and (2) to identify and describe the factors and conditions that make schools' use of the student assessment data more probable and valuable.