DataDriven Instruction

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Data-Driven Instruction
May you live in a time of change.

• DDI Dr. Stanley and Dr. Tubbs
• 4/8/08

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Choosing Interoperable Tools

• http//www.clrn.org/elar/search.cfm 

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Technical Skills Needed by Staff

• Running Reports
• Populating (entering) data?
• Graphing data
• Mail-merging data Exported from system- make
  labels from skyward to send letters out to
  students, I have tried, but can't get it.
• Online Gradebook

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Data Driven Instruction

• How is Data Driven Instruction different than
  data driven decision making?

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Focus Questions

• How can effective implementation of DDI increase
  student engagement and student achievement?
• How can formative assessment strategies be
  embedded in a content lesson?
• How can summative assessments become celebrations
  of content mastery?
• What can we learn from the results of high
  stakes testing?

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Data Driven Instruction What is it!?
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DDI

• A method of collecting student data in such a way
  that administrators, teachers, parents and
  students can accurately asses student learning.
• Decisions are then made based on the data in
  order to improve instructional systems in order
  to continually promote student achievement.
• Data have become the foundation of the
  contemporary design of educational
  accountability.
• NCLBs reauthorization mandates the reporting of
  school and student data at incomparable levels.

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Three Levels of DDI

• (insert the diagram for formative, summative and
  high stakes testing)

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Formative Assessment

• Real time data
• Reveals vertical content mastery
• Reveals grade level mastery

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How do you collect real time data?

• Implement checks for understanding throughout
  the content lesson.
• Important step in the teaching and learning
  process
• Allows access to the background knowledge that
  students bring into the classroom
• Illuminates exactly what students understand
  about the lesson

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Why uncover and confront student misconceptions?

• Misconceptions can interfere with student
  learning
• Elementary students misunderstanding that an
  equal sign in mathematics indicates an operation,
  rather than a relation (Ginsburg, 1982)
• Science students misconception that larger
  objects are heavier than smaller ones (Schauble,
  1996)
• K-3 students beliefs that Native Americans who
  lied in tepees did so because they were poor and
  could not afford a house (Brophy Alleman, 2002)

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Checks for Understanding Are

• Ongoing assessments, reviews and observations in
  the classroom
• They are used to improve instruction and provide
  student feedback

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Strategies used to check for understanding

• Fist of Five
• Think-Pair-Share
• Activity before concept (ABC)
• Quick Check
• Active learning
• Questioning techniques
• Student refelctions

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• (will provide examples of some of the checks with
  student evidence at this time0

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Summative Assessment

• Typically evaluate the effectiveness of
  instructional delivery at a pre-determined time
• Used to judge student competency after an
  instructional phase is complete

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Creating Assessments That Teach

• Learning targets/learning logs
• Student reflection/rubric
• Error analysis

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• (I will provide examples with student evidence)

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High Stakes Testing

• Cumulative testing
• Gauges mastery of course or grade-level standards
• Snapshot of mastery, not the complete photo

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The Vision

• Professional Developments offered
• Formative Assessment
• (list all of the offerings . . . Can you insert
  this from our notes from Saturday?

Keep your eye on data.