The Data Collection Toolkit: Everything You Need to Organize, Manage, and Monitor Classroom Data / Edition 1

by Cindy Golden

Overview

Collecting data on behavior, academic skills, and IEP goals is an essential step in showing student progress—but it can also be a complicated, time-consuming process. Take the worry and stress out of data collection with this ultra-practical resource, packed with the tools you need to organize, manage, and monitor critical information on your students' progress. You'll discover proven, stress-free data collection techniques used by real teachers, with strategies and shortcuts developed through the author's extensive teaching and consulting work. You'll also get first-person classroom examples, quizzes, definitions of key terms, and a complete package of reproducible forms and tools. An essential resource for special educators, general educators, and paraprofessionals, this toolkit will help you become a "classroom detective" who collects the right data, analyzes it skillfully, and uses it to solve each student's challenges.

DISCOVER HOW TO

• master the basic steps of effective data collection
• design a creative data collection process custom-tailored to your needs
• record and graph your students' academic, behavioral, and IEP data
• expertly manage your time and paperwork while collecting all the data you need
• use data collection strategies to systematically address specific questions and problems
• select appropriate methods for monitoring progress
• analyze data for trends and patterns
• make data-driven decisions that enhance student achievement

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Record and analyze your classroom data with a complete package of ready-to-use, reproducible forms and tools! Includes Quick-Graph forms that make it easy to record data and graph trends on the same form; data sheets and graphs; tip sheets; and handouts and organizational tools.

Includes more than 40 forms and tools!

• Quick-Graphs for recording and analyzing data on one form
• Data sheets and graphs for academic, behavioral, and IEP data
• Organizational tools for establishing a data collection system
• Handouts for building your data collection notebook

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598579246
Publisher:	Brookes Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Cindy Golden, Ed.D., is a Principal/Psychologist of NorthStar Educational and Therapeutic Services, part of the Georgia Network of Educational and Therapeutic Supports; Founder of OMAC Consulting; and Editor of the website Special Needs Resource Magazine.

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Table of Contents

About the Forms and Tools
About the Author
Introduction: Becoming a Classroom Detective

I Preparing for Data Collection
• 1 The Step-by-Step Process of Data Collection: What You Need to Know
• 2 Determining the Specific Issue and Defining the Target Behavior or Focus

II Collecting Your Data
• 3 Academic Data and Progress Monitoring
• 4 Behavioral Data
• 5 IEP Data
• 6 Establishing Your Data Collection System

III Data Analysis and Follow-Up
• 7 Analyzing Data
• 8 Data-Based Decision Making

IV Your Classroom Data Toolkit
• A Academic and Progress Monitoring Forms
• B Behavior Forms
• C IEP Forms
• D Organizational Tools: Establishing a Data Collection System

References
Appendix A Building Your Data Collection Notebook: Handouts, Embellishments, and Extras
Appendix B Answers to Quick Quizzes
Index

Editorial Reviews

"A phenomenal resource to use as a textbook or for anyone wishing to teach themselves how to make data-based decisions ... I plan on purchasing a copy for all the teachers in my family."

Laura Riffel