Data Driven Reform part of the Education Reform Network

Analyzing School Data

• An Interview with Nancy Love: Building a Professional Learning Community
  Ken Mayer of TERC interviews Nancy Love, author of Using Data/Getting Results, to share her vision of collaborative data analysis in which teachers own the process and work together toward improvement of their teaching.
• Data-Driven Decision Making
  Provides access to the January, 2003, edition of ENC Focus on the theme of data-driven decision-making. Full text of all articles in the print version of the magazine, plus several bonus articles published online only, including: Uses and Abuses of Data, Cooking with Data, Getting Comfortable with Data, Action Research with Impact, and Turning Skeptics into Supporters.
• Educational Indicators
  This ERIC Digest explains what is meant by performance indicators, how they can support school improvement, and how they can be misused.
• Just for the Kids
  Just for the Kids is a nonprofit organization providing tools to support public school improvement. Primary initiatives include 1) the analysis of public school academic performance data, 2) identification and study of high-performing schools, and 3) providing tools to help use our information and best practices research in school improvement efforts.
• Student Acheivement Data Worksheet
  Every school has access to annual student achievement data that need to be analyzed. This site contains two worksheets designed to help schools look broadly at student achievement scores and causes of low scores.
• Using Data for Program Improvement: How Do We Encourage Schools to Do It?
  This paper suggests that when schools are encouraged to articulate their own goals and decide how to measure their performance in achieving them, the indictors are more relevant. Provides suggests on identifying data sources, developing indicators, interpreting the data, and developing improvement strategies.