Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Middle Schools
This book helps you make sense of the data your school collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data. Easy-to-use templates, tools, and examples are available on the accompanying CD-Rom.High stakes accountability requires that you understand the strengths, challenges, and implications of your school improvement plan. "Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Middle Schools" shows you how to— • Look carefully at your students' current test scores and other qualitative and quantitative data • Compare your results to what you want them to be • Find the gaps and the root causes of the gaps • Plan and implement a school improvement plan based on your school's actual dataThis book and CD-Rom analyzes data from actual middle schools and provides you with files and templates into which you can enter data from your own school.This is the second title in Victoria L. Bernhardt's new series. Future titles will focus on high schools and districts