Data Analysis: For Comprehensive Schoolwide Improvement - Softcover

Bernhardt, Victoria L.

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9781883001575: Data Analysis: For Comprehensive Schoolwide Improvement

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ISBN 10: 1883001579 ISBN 13: 9781883001575

Publisher: Eye on Education, 1998

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"Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement" (First Edition, 1998, Second Edition, 2004)

What separates successful schools from those that will not be successful in their reform efforts is the use of one, often neglected, essential element�—data. With clear and concrete examples from both elementary and secondary schools, "Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement" shows what data to gather and how to use data to improve all aspects of schools. "Data Analysis" enables you to find out where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there�—sensibly, painlessly, and effectively.

Schools are powerful organizations. Every day, across the United States, schools are impacting the lives of millions of children and the future of our very existence. Schools become even more powerfully efficient and effective when data play an active role in their operations.

The purposes of this book are to update the original "Data Analysis for Comprehensive Schoolwide Improvement" book with new and improved strategies and knowledge, and to clarify:

· why data are important and what data to gather
· how data�—gathered, analyzed, and properly used�—can make a difference in meeting the needs of every student in the school
·how to communicate and report data results
· the data analyses required to meet "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) legislation

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From the Publisher:

Solve your school's problems by using data.

This book shows you how to:
� replace hunches and hypotheses with facts
� identify the root causes of problems
� measure progress toward comprehensive schoolwide improvement
� effectively gather and use data to make better decisions

With clear and concrete examples from schools, "Data Analysis for Comprehensive Schoolwide Improvement" shows you how to:
� clarify what data are important
� use and analyze data
� communicate and report results

This book enables you to find and use the following types of data:
� demographics
� attendance/enrollment
� drop-out/graduation rates
� assessments of current teaching practices
� teachers', students', administrators', & parents' perceptions of the learning environment

From the Author:

I am passionate about the impact data analyses make on building strong schools, teachers, administrators, and district, county, regional, state, and national education systems. Data not only tell us where we have been, where we are right now, and where we are going; data inform us of the ways to get there, sensibly.

This book is not a statistics text. It shows how to use data to gain answers to logical questions and to understand current and future impact. Examples from real schools illustrate the points.

With the enactment of "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB), data analysis is no longer optional! The requirements take us deep into the data to help us identify and uncover powerful solutions to schools' greatest challenges. I believe we have to look more systematically and deeper than we are used to looking to get to analyses that will make the difference. We must also look at other data sources besides our required state assessments.

This second edition includes updated and new information gathered since the publication of the first edition. It also includes some of the same information included in other books I've written—at the request of the book reviewers and participants in workshops using the "Data Analysis" book.

I want this book to contribute to the success of schools and districts throughout the United States and abroad, because... I want schools to prove that they can help ALL children learn and be all they want to be in the future.

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