EDL 606Data Driven Decision Making

The course provides a broad overview of how administrators and teachers take ownership in the action research process by using a statistical data analysis package. Course participants will learn to analyze and act on student performance data to improve and drive classroom instruction. The role of instructional leaders and the development of teacher competencies for data and trend analysis will be examined. Effective strategies will be discussed as a powerful tool for system-wide school improvement and connecting instructional decisions to assessment.