Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning

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Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning

reviewed by Victoria L. Bernhardt - May 10, 2006

Title: Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
Author(s): Boudett, Kathryn P., City, E.A., Murnane, R. J. (Eds.)
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
ISBN: 1891792679, Pages: 212, Year: 2005
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Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Richard J. Murnane was published by Harvard Education Press in 2005. Data Wise was written to help education leaders learn how to analyze data in a manner that contributes to improved instruction and increased student learning. In addition to the three editors, contributors included three urban public school principals, a director of “out-of-school” programs in an urban public school, Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members, including a statistician, an economist, an assessment scholar, and a public policy analyst. All of the authors have worked in or with urban schools, and most have extensive teaching experience. Some of the authors have personally experienced the issues that they are writing about in the book. As is stated in the Preface, “What we share is a commitment to provide... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Victoria Bernhardt Education for the Future E-mail Author VICTORIA L. BERNHARDT is Executive Director, Education for the Future, Chico, California, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to build the capacity of learning organizations to gather, analyze, and use data to continuously improve learning for all students. Dr. Bernhardt is the author of 11 highly acclaimed books on data analysis and the school portfolio, published by Eye on Education, Larchmont, New York. Her most recent publications are a series of 4 books that show what it would look like if elementary, middle, high schools, and school districts analyzed their data. Dr. Bernhardt is passionate about how data analysis can make the difference for school effectiveness, and ultimately reaching the learning needs of all students. Her website is http://eff.csuchico.edu.

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