Anne Bubnic's List: Data/School data analysis

This report addresses some of these issues by summarizing findings from an exploratory study of the school-based assessment practices in a sample of elementary, middle, and secondary schools. The purposes of the study were twofold: (1) to add to the growing base of knowledge about how schools use student assessment data obtained from multiple sources to inform important decisions about programs, instruction, and individual students; and (2) to identify and describe the factors and conditions that make schools' use of the student assessment data more probable and valuable.

Simple strategies & tools to make sense of your student achievement data from Dennis Fox. The site includes downloadable workshop handouts.

There's a ton of data being collected. The trick is to know how to use it effectively. [Journal of Staff Development].