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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

100

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

100

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

100

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?

100

Information collected for analysis, which can be quantitative (numerical) or qualitative (descriptive).

What is data?

200

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

200

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



200

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

200

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

200

A systematic method of measuring students' knowledge, skills, or abilities, often using data to evaluate their performance.

What is assessment?

300

Using mulitple data sources, at least 3 data points, is important to determine the validity of each data set.  This is called:

What is data triangulation? 
300

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

300

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?

300

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?

300

A general direction in which data points are moving over time, which can indicate growth, decline, or stability.

What is trend?

400

BONUS FUN!!!

Free Response for anyone ----

When the answer if revealed, you have 5 seconds to start for response. 

If you are the first person to stand up and sing at least 4 lines from a favorite song, you get the points.    


GO...    FaLaLFa

Any song, even if you make it up!

400

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

This process involves analyzing collected literacy data to inform instruction and improve student learning outcomes. What is it?

What is data analysis?

500

This type of assessment has little use to classroom educators, it could be referred to the autopsy data.

500

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.

500

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

500

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

500

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?