INTERACTIVE GUIDE
What Is Relevant Data, and How Do I Find It in the Classroom?
Discover which data points to prioritize, how to confidently gather those data sets, and how to streamline the data gathering and application process at your school.
Useful Data.
Ideally, useful student, classroom, and district data is simple.
It empowers educators to make the right decisions – to provide the help students need exactly when they need it.
With hundreds of tools, experts, and philosophies, how can educators create this seamless, accurate integration of data gathering and analysis in the classroom? How do they begin gathering the right information quickly and reliably?
Begin with the purpose behind the data.
Which steps of the data analysis process does your team need to improve?(choose one below)
Identifying relevant data points
Designing and implementing a secure, scalable storage and gathering system
Pulling data for analysis
Interpreting data and what it means for your classroom
Identifying relevant data points is the foundation of data analysis—your first step before you even choose a system. Find out how to build or improve your process by starting in the right place.
There’s no shortage of data gathering and secure storage systems available. Are you overwhelmed by the options or stuck with a system that doesn’t do what you want it to? Find out what the right system for your school should offer.
Successful data analysis starts with identifying relevant data points through a secure system. Explore how your district can access more relevant data to truly transform the student experience.
This is where it all comes together—where you begin to see a real impact on students’ lives. Learn how to interpret the data for the benefit of your students.
To document student growth, you must first establish the meaningful data points you need most. The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences recommends the following examples as the most essential data points:
- Curriculum-based test results
- Benchmark test results
- Classroom participation and work
- Homework results
- Attendance
- Parent meeting information
- Behavior records
- IEPs
- Data from previous terms and years
Your district may need fewer or more data points depending on your unique situation, so EdTech Magazine reminds educators to consider both long- and short-term student outcomes. What information do you need to deliver differentiated instruction?
Remember: you don’t want to clog the system with data points that don’t move students closer to outcomes. Start conversations with teachers, curriculum directors, principals, and assistant principals to gain a comprehensive understanding of what’s essential for transformation.
Reliable data depends on:
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Consistent and frequent assessments
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Easy-to-understand results
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Clear implications
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Applications that lead to student outcomes
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Implement a Secure, Scalable Data Management System
Most importantly, districts need to identify the decision-makers who can provide high-level guidance throughout your journey with differentiated instruction. The decision-makers should empower everyone to collect and find the information they need to transform their classrooms.
As EdSurge explains in its 2014 analysis “Why We’ve Learned So Little From Big Data,” superintendents, principals and teachers have different goals for gathering data. Key decision-makers can create a unified purpose to make the process as reliable, clean and actionable as possible.
Most importantly, your district needs to identify the decision-makers who can provide high-level guidance throughout your journey with personalized learning. The decision-makers should empower everyone to collect and find the information they need to transform their classrooms. As EdSurge explains, superintendents, principals and teachers have different goals for gathering data. Key decision-makers can create a unified purpose to make the process as reliable, clean and actionable as possible.
“…Curriculum, data, and technology teams [have] traditionally have existed in silos. The process is difficult, in part, because of incongruous data needs. Superintendents want an accurate picture of the school system. Principals need to manage school resources. And teachers need actionable real-time feedback for the classroom.”- EdSurge, “Why We’ve Learned So Little From Big Data”
aimswebPlus Streamlines Data Management
Preview what relevant data looks like in aimswebPlus:
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Relevant data has the power to connect your school’s instructional, planning, and intervention efforts – making it a robust and dynamic asset to educators.
With aimsweb™Plus – a proven assessment, reporting, and data-management system – your school district can drive improved student performance. Benchmarking and progress monitoring in one secure system empower you to:
- Measure what matters
- Identify at-risk students early
- Set individual goals to close learning gaps
- Track the effectiveness of instruction and intervention
Through seamless and easy-to-understand data from brief standards-aligned and curriculum-based measures, you can monitor and report student progress and predict all students' achievement on K-8 grade-level targets.