How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data

by Susan M. Brookhart

Overview

In How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart helps teachers and administrators understand the critical elements and nuances of assessment data and how that information can best be used to inform improvement efforts in the school or district.

Readers will learn—
* What different kinds of data can—and cannot—tell us about student learning;
* What different analyses reveal about changes in student achievement;
* How to interpret, use, and share relevant data; and
* How to create a model to go from problem to solution in a data-based decision-making process.

With easy-to-understand explanations, supplemented by examples and scenarios from actual schools, this book offers a path to better understanding, more accurate interpretation of assessment results, and—most important—more effective use of data to improve teaching and learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416621034
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	12/07/2015
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Susan M. Brookhart, PhD, is an independent educational consultant based in Helena, Montana. She has taught both elementary and middle school. She was professor and chair of the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership at Duquesne University, where she currently serves as an adjunct professor. She has been the education columnist for National Forum, the journal of Phi Kappa Phi, and editor of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, a journal of the National Council on Measurement in Education. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including ASCD’s How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students and How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading. She is the coauthor, with Connie M. Moss, of ASCD’s Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom: A Guide for Instructional Leaders, Formative Classroom Walkthroughs: Assessment in Every Classroom and Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today’s Lesson. She was named the 2014 Jason Millman Scholar by the Consortium for Research on Educational Effectiveness and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE) and received the 2015 Samuel J. Messick Lecture Award from ETS/TOEFL.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 An Introduction to Different Kinds of Data

2 Large-Scale Accountability Assessments

3 Interim/Benchmark Assessments and Common Formative Assessments

4 Classroom Grades

5 Classroom Formative Assessment Strategies

6 Putting It All Together: Basing Decisions on Data

7 But Did They Learn Anything? Evaluating the Results of Your Decisions

8 Different Kinds of Data

Glossary

References

About the Author

Index