Jody Oliver's List: Data and Research

"Today I am sharing with you some data visualization tools I have recently bookmarked. You can use these tools with your students to create visual represent your information and data. Check out the selection below :"

great pdf, downloadable, article.

FREE - The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT) provides you with a convenient platform for recording observations of technology use in classrooms. Check boxes and pull-down menus allow you to easily record a variety of classroom characteristics and automatically aggregate data or export it into other programs. Use ICOT to collect data on classroom groupings, teacher roles, time and types of technology use, and the NETS.

another one online to assist students

good one online that provides students with ideas for class and homework

online assessment

Use an online inventory to determine students' learning strengths and intelligences.

Educators have long been aware that learning is not one-size-fits-all. In a typical classroom, some kids process information best by hearing the teacher explain it, some learn by seeing what’s on the chalkboard, and others learn through hands-on exercises.

How Do I Learn Best?

This version of VARK has been modified from the main VARK questionnaire for people aged 12-18 years. Acknowledgment of this version should be made to Neil Fleming at vark-learn.com.

great stuff on rubrics and assessment for hs biology

Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

This graph shows how long people live and how much money they earn.
Click the play button to see how countries have developed since 1800.

"Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy
to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. "

California is now SBAC - "Welcome to the Center for K–12 Assessment & Performance Management at ETS (the K–12 Center).

The mission of the Center is to create timely events where conversations regarding new assessment challenges can take place and to publish and disseminate the best thinking and research on the range of measurement issues facing national, state and local decision makers."

"Changing Conversations® about school performance
and educational resources across Colorado"

"The Best Evidence Encyclopedia is a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12."

QuizSnack is the most easy to use online poll & survey tool, allowing you to create and conduct market questionnaires without having to learn complicated software. Also, the reporting is very simple and straightforward, with results being displayed in real-time.

"Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free!

* Flubaroo works with Google docs."

"Data First was created with the idea that data matters. Education data, used well, can help school board members and everyone else who cares about education to make good decisions – ones based, not on the loudest voices or the latest theories, but on the facts about what students need and how they are currently doing.

This Web site, which is part of the larger Data First project, started out several years ago as a collection of data resources called “Good Measures for Good Schools.” That collection, which is now the Data Center, was designed to guide people through the questions they should be asking about their schools, and point to the data sources that offer answers.

Wanting to broaden and expand this idea, the Center for Public Education received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop training and tools specifically to help school leaders use data effectively in their ongoing efforts to improve student outcomes. Data First for Governance is the product of a partnership of the Center for Public Education and state school boards associations in California, Illinois and Michigan who worked together over 18 months to develop and pilot the school board training."