Data Driven Decision-Making For Educators

What is Data-Driven Decision Making for Educators?

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Educators empowers educators to make informed decisions to improve student learning. The resources, activities, and assignments are designed for you to analyze data, understand the different types of assessments and their proper use, run your own data reports, and communicate your findings with parents, educators, and policymakers. Part of the course focuses on standardized testing, including its purpose, best use, and ways to get the most out of the data. This includes activities where you use your school’s data analysis application to run your reports. This course includes how professional learning communities can work together to analyze data, make curricular decisions, and develop an action plan.

What Will You Learn? 

You will also learn how data affects decision-making at all levels, including national, state, district, school, grade level, and individual students. This course is recommended for educators at all grade levels. You do not need access to students to complete the course. Like all our courses, we take great pride in supporting and addressing our students' needs.

Learn through course resources including sample exam reports, forums and online assignments. Although helpful, having access to a report-generating tool is not a requirement.

• Analyze state standardized test data and benchmark test data to determine strengths and weaknesses in how students are performing in relation to both their grade level and their entire school.
• Determine if there are achievement gaps between significant subgroups, along with differences between the grade levels.
• Analyze multiple measures reports and determine what assessments should support electronic reporting.
• Complete an action plan tool.

"The class was very informative about how data should be driving classroom instruction. Being a part of newly created "data team" at my high school, this class has increased my knowledge of how to pass on the information to the rest of the staff. If the overall goal of your school is to increase student performance, I highly recommend this class."

--Teacher, Ohio

This course is applicable towards the Curriculum Design and Assessment Certificate and Technology Skills for Educators Certificate.