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This type of assessment is conducted during the learning process to provide immediate feedback to both teachers and students. What is it?
Formative (Assessment)
* Making Instructional Decisions Based on Data: What, How, and Why
What would be the first thing you would do when you notice a "high-flying" student's academic level dropped on the formative assessment?
What is to have a conversation with them?
*Making Instructional Decisions Based on Data: What, How, and Why
Before planning a lesson, this is the first thing you should consider.
What do the students need to know?
* The Story Data Tells: Using Data To Improve Student Learning
You teach 10th grade in SC. During a beginning of the year professional development, completed by the district, you are asked to look at your state-wide testing literacy data. What data might you use for this analysis?
What is 8th grade ELA SC Ready or Reading MAP if taken?
Information collected for analysis, which can be quantitative (numerical) or qualitative (descriptive).
What is data?
Often used in classrooms, this assessment type includes listening to students read, write, or communicate with each other. What is it?
Observation
*Making Instructional Decisions Based on Data: What, How, and Why
You have a student whose data is confusing you. You aren't sure what the next steps should be. What would you do?
What is to find your data team?
* Five (Good) Ways to Talk About Data
For coaches, to act as data leaders, what is the first thing they must establish within the school.
What is creating a safe, blame free environment?
* COACHES HELP MINE THE DATA
True or False: Only the data that you collect from benchmark testing should determine the instructional level used for teaching that student?
False
* 3 Ways to Put Assessment Data to Work
A systematic method of measuring students' knowledge, skills, or abilities, often using data to evaluate their performance.
What is assessment?
Using mulitple data sources, at least 3 data points, is important to determine the validity of each data set. This is called:
Your school has just completed the Winter MAP assessment for Reading. You are a Reading classroom teacher. You first look at this data
What is whole class levels of proficiency?
* 3 Ways to Put Assessment Data to Work
If student academic progress is your goal, you need to look at the data to determine next steps, what is this called?
What is data driven?
Data confuses me. What is the worst thing I could do for my students?
What is not reach out for support? Data is confusing, it is like a mystery.
* What is Data Driven Instruction?
A general direction in which data points are moving over time, which can indicate growth, decline, or stability.
What is trend?
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When analyzing data and thinking of some things we have not yet explored, what question would you ask?
What other data do we want to examine?
Look at whole class data to determine how to reteach a skill will help me to decide which instructional model I will use. If data shows that only 6 out of 20 students are still not proficient with the skill, what grouping should I use?
What is small group?
* What is Data Driven Instruction?
Your school collects and analyzes data. This process is made useless if teachers don't do this.
What is make instructional decisions based on the data?
This process involves analyzing collected literacy data to inform instruction and improve student learning outcomes. What is it?
What is data analysis?
This type of assessment has little use to classroom educators, it could be referred to the autopsy data.
What is summative assessment?
Imagine: https://www.zennedmath.com/summative-vs-formative-assessments-who-takes-the-cake/
I have my data. I have reviewed the data. I am confused by the data. What should I do?
What is find a mentor? This can be a literacy coach, peer teachers, admin, department chair... someone that you can work through your questions and make an instructional plan.
In a school, the success of the literacy program is directly aligned to the support provided to literacy educators by which other professional in the school?
What is the school administrators?
* COACHES HELP MINE THE DATA
Frequently, when teachers engage in analyzing student data, they identified the following possible causes for a student lack of progression: attendance, home demographics, comprehension skills, instructional strategies Which should not be focus areas for this student?
What is attendance and demographics, any area not in a teacher's realm of control?
* COACHES HELP MINE THE DATA
This term describes the specific skills and knowledge students are expected to demonstrate in literacy, often outlined in educational standards. What is it?
What is literacy benchmarks?