Refining Common Sense Moving from Data to Information

by Phelps, Vickie Williams; Warren, Elizabeth F.

• ISBN13: 9781578860463
• ISBN10: 1578860466
• Edition: CD
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2004-03-12
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Designed to help educators collect and use data more effectively, this guide enables the reader to develop three tools to use in decision-making. 1.) A Data Notebook to capture the charts, notes, and agendas created during the process along with goals, questions, and process information. 2.) A Master Data Directory for compiling the data sources that are available in the district and school, and, 3.) The Information-Based Decision-Making Roadmap that contains all the finished documents that have been used to make decisions.

Author Biography

Vickie Williams Phelps is superintendent of the Taylor Independent School District in Taylor, Texas Elizabeth F. Warren is president and CEO of Educational Policy Initiatives Corporation

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Getting Started with Data	p. 1
Thinking about Data	p. 3
Answering Questions Using Data	p. 7
Assessing Your Current Status	p. 25
Thinking about the Data You Have	p. 37
Designing a Data-Analysis System	p. 61
Moving from Data to Information	p. 77
Reporting Information	p. 79
The Search for Leverage Points	p. 93
What Do You Do with Your Report after You've Used It for Decision-Making?	p. 101
What Do You Do with Your Road Map Now That You Have It?	p. 108
Test Primer	p. 115
Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3	p. 117
Here Are Your Scores	p. 129
Turning Scores into Information	p. 143
So What?	p. 157
Making Decisions about Individual Students	p. 159
The Journey Ends ... or Does It?	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 185
About the Authors	p. 187
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