About This Lesson
This source is from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse (http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/) This guide offers five recommendations to help educators effectively use data to monitor students’ academic progress and evaluate instructional practices. The guide recommends that schools set a clear vision for schoolwide data use, develop a data-driven culture, and make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement. The guide also recommends teaching students how to use their own data to set learning goals