Data-based decision-making encourages innovation and differentiation to improve student outcomes. To ensure optimal data-informed decisions, the suggestions below provide best practices on educational data usage.
Collect accurate and timely data.
Real-time data collection facilitates differentiation and interventions.
Assessments provide opportunities for corrective instruction and demonstration of understanding.
Formative assessments provide real-time data that can help with quick customization.
Summative assessments provide end-of-term and/or -year data that may help teachers understand learning and/or gaps.
Ensure data accuracy.
Teachers and administrators need professional development and training to collect, evaluate, and use data effectively (research, collection, validity, relevance, etc.).
Teachers and administrators need time to collaborate and learn from one another.
Ensure easy access and understanding of data.
Data should be easy to obtain and interpret. Graphics, definitions, and other quick links, snapshots, summaries, etc. all facilitate data comprehension.
Consistent communications regarding data provide transparency and facilitate the execution of necessary changes.
Ongoing feedback loops between students and teachers, teachers and parents, and teachers and school administrators are critical to the communication process of engagement with and accountability for learning goals.
Provide ongoing training and allow sufficient time for teachers and administrators to build and improve data literacy skills.
Data usage enables more effective evaluation of programs, resources, and interventions to facilitate student, school, and district success. State and federal systems also use data to create legislation that focuses on student achievement, progress, and meeting the specific needs of the state and district.
Understanding data terms and the role of data is critical to ensuring the systemic functionality and cultural integration of data usage for student and school achievements. Data collection, accuracy, analysis, and interpretation facilitate the identification of accomplishments and interventions to ensure students’ academic needs are met.
Because data is omnipresent, it must also be objectively reviewed and analyzed to communicate accurate information. The information should be cross-functionally shared with teachers, parents, administrators, and district leaders to ingrain the value of data into the cultural operations of the educational system. Collectively, these systems work to benefit the overall success of district, state, and federal systems.
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