Data Driven Decision Making: Facilitating teachers' use of Student Data to change classroom instruction

Abstract

Data driven decision making has become a significant part of teachers’ practice, and yet, teachers are not typical taught how to use different sets of data to support their teaching, or students’ learning, and it is an onerous process. This paper presents a professional development approach using the SAVE Science Dashboard, supported through an NSF-funded grant project, to support teachers use of different data sets to differentiate instruction. Introduction