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A how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.

Assessment is most often associated with grading, but there are in fact several other purposes for assessment which are just as (if not more) important to teaching and learning.

These materials are for school board members who want to know more about how to use data to make good decisions for children in public schools. Trainers who work with school board members also can use these materials at state and national conferences or in local training sessions.

Well before the idea of using data to manage schools gained prominence on the national stage, Oklahoma's Western Heights school district had made the ideal of real-time, data-driven decisionmaking a reality. Back in 2001, Superintendent Joe Kitchens was already being spotlighted for his focus on creating a longitudinal-data system that would give teachers in the 3,400-student district the ability to make quick decisions to improve student learning, while reducing the time spent compiling reports.

The successful integration of data into a district's decision-making process requires both a culture of change and a data management system to support change. Nice chart of progress quadrants included in the discussion.

Many school districts have begun to administer periodic assessments to complement end-of-the-year state testing. Assessments are used to guide instruction, monitor student learning, evaluate teachers and predict scores on future state tests.

The Pivot tables and chartsfeature in Excel lets educators begin disaggregating and analyzing data within seconds (literally) of receiving original data files from state departments, testing companies, and/or school districts. These ten tutorials show how to use what is perhaps the most powerful data analysis tool within Excel

The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.
1. TEACHERS can use ICOT to learn from colleagues.
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Districts are collecting more data than ever, but are they using it to improve performance?

All schools have data about student achievement. To make the most of these data to improve learning, we need to take be aware of many other factors - evidence that describes our students' wider learning environment.

The 118 page report, "Framework for a Comprehensive Education Data System in California - Unlocking the Power of Data to Continually Improve Public Education," recommends significantly expanding and linking information from California's K-12 system to data from pre-K, higher education, workforce, and social services data systems to inform decisions that extend beyond K-12.

Imagine the research possibilities if every student in the country carried a "virtual backpack" stuffed with statistics on his or her entire educational history. The data, traveling with students as they moved from school to school, could be used to update parents on their children's learning progress, register students in school, or import information when they moved to a new city or entered college.

One of the current buzzwords in use in the state of California and across the nation is multiple measures. But what does this phrase really mean for students, teachers, schools, and districts? Quite simply by multiple measures we mean the use of a variety of assessment formats that allow educators to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their students so that the curriculum can be adjusted to meet the needs of those students.

Most teachers routinely develop and communicate to students and parents the various plans and policies that govern the middle school classroom. Usually, this includes a classroom management plan, a grading policy, an instructional plan linked to state and district curriculum standards, a homework policy, and perhaps an intervention plan detailing what will happen for students if they fall behind.\n\nRarely do teachers include a classroom assessment plan. Most teachers typically don't develop this plan because it has been our history to see assessment as a series of isolated testing events: tests given at the end of an instructional unit or time period, like the end of a semester. However, as it turns out, students achieve at higher levels when teachers think more deeply about how their classroom assessments fit into their larger instructional environment.

From the National Staff Development Council. Teacher leaders hear the warning and develop common assessments to improve student achievement.