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Planning to Assess Progress – Chapter 7
This step, planning to assess progress, is one of the toughest in this process.  It is often clear how we want our students to progress and how we will measure their progress; however, it is more difficult to assess ourselves and the systems that we’ve developed.  The chapter outlines [...]

Developing an Action Plan – Chapter 6
After all the hard work of data analysis and examining the instruction, it is time to develop an action plan.  Four steps are given to guide successful action planning:
1.  Decide on an instructional strategy or multiple strategies that will solve the problem of practice that was identified previously.
2.  Agree [...]

Examining Instruction – Chapter 5
This chapter focused on linking teaching and learning and then examining the instruction to find the inadequacies as related to the learner-centered problem.   The connection should be clear, but many teachers feel overwhelmed and unable to make change happen.  This is largely due to external factors like funding, poverty, previous [...]

Digging Into Data – Chapter 4
Chapter 4 presents ways that school faculties can dig into the data of their students and discover the learner-centered problem.
The steps include:
1.  Look carefully at a single data source
2.  Understand student thinking
3.  Challenge assumptions
4.  Dig into other data sources
5.   Triangulate data sources
6.  Develop a shared understanding of the knowledge [...]

Creating a Data Overview – Chapter 3
This chapter goes one step further in deciding how to present and convey data that is comprehensible to all those involved.  The first step is to decide on the educational questions that will be the focus of the graphs and reports.  Using charts, graphs and tables are ways that [...]

Building Assessment Literacy – Chapter 2
This chapter focuses on the importance of understanding data reports.  They can be incredibly confusing.  The standard score, scaled score, range of scores, how the data is displayed, the terminology used to explain the data, all of which can make for a very frustrating experience.  This is why it is [...]

Organizing for Collaborative Work – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of Data Wise provides clear instruction in how to prepare your school and teachers for becoming a part of a school culture that uses data to affect instruction.  The steps include:  Create a data team, Guide the data team (create a data inventory, take stock of data [...]