CTAP4 Data Assessment

This site is intended to help K-12 educators work with raw student and school data.

From the California Department of Education

Increasingly, school board members from around the country are using data to help make good decisions about improving public education for all children. As school districts across the country grapple with how to think systemically and strategically about reaching student achievement goals and forging creative solutions from standardized test data, data-driven decision making can be used to inform board decisions.

Karen Greenwood Henke: Presentation at the 12th Annual COSN Conference, San Francisco. Report on the COSN Data Driven Decision Making Initiative.

A Comparative Analysis of Superintendent, Principal, and Teachers' Perceptions of Accountability Systems. The purpose of this technical report is to develop a better understanding of the assessment and accountability practices and policies that educators are implementing in the classrooms, schools, and districts and to examine whether those policies are associated with perceived school and student improvements in achievement.\n\nThe study provides descriptive information about the need for schools and districts to effectively use data, how schools and districts use data to guide classroom practice, and the difference in data use based on the level of student proficiency in individual schools.

How schools can harness data over the long term to raise student achievement in a consistent, sustained manner. Technology & Learning Magazine, Oct 2005.

Delivering targeted instruction to students at all levels isn't easy. Here are some straightforward strategies. June 15, 2005

Historically available only to large corporations due to price and complexity, data warehousing is now an affordable and manageable option for gathering, manipulating and incorporating district data. While the inclusion of a data warehouse can be a boon for districts, the process of its development and support needs careful planning and management.

Data warehousing has become an essential district tool. Historically available only to large corporations due to price and complexity, data warehousing is now an affordable and manageable option for gathering, manipulating and incorporating district data. While the inclusion of a data warehouse can be a boon for districts, the process of its development and support needs careful planning and management.

A Breeze Presentation created by CTAP4 and RSDSS to help users understand how to use the free CST Analyzer tool with student test data.

One of the most vexing problems in American education is the achievement gap. Schools and districts are tackling the problem in different ways and seeing results. The first step in dealing with the achievement gap is acknowledging that the problem exists. Yet not all districts break down student performance data to show how various racial and ethnic groups perform.

This Web site is part of the statewide initiative to close the achievement gap. Aimed at supporting the work of policymakers, educators, and interested community members, it is the electronic hub for helpful information, research, and success stories about efforts to close the gap in California.

This book is a step by step recipe book for using data in your schools. "It answers the who, what, when, where, and how. The book is not a complicated read and it is an excellent book for a book study with the entire staff.This book will help staffs to understand how data can help to improve the climate and culture in a school, instruction and the academic outcome of all students."

Link student assessments with instruction. A one-stop web-based location to review data management systems based on approved criteria.

CTAP Region IV and Regional System of District and School Support (RSDSS) developed these Microsoft Excel® templates to assist you in analyzing CST and benchmark assessments.