Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching And Learning
"This book provides a great variety of useful ideas and tools for analyzing student achievement data. It serves as an important and significant resource for school leaders in utilizing data to improve instruction and student achievement." -- --Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals"A masterful example of what can happen when great scholars confront real-world problems. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in moving beyond the tiresome arguments over the pros and cons of testing." -- --Michael Feuer, Founding Director, Board of Testing and Assessment, National Research Council of the National Academies"The step-by-step process described in this invaluable book has helped me engage my faculty in lively, frank, and productive discussions about our student assessment results. Now we are able to make the connections between data and instruction in ways that improve teaching and learning systematically throughout the school." -- --Janet Palmer Owens, Principal, Mason Pilot School, Boston, Massachusetts