Number 3 The Digest: How school and teachers can use data to inform teaching in ways that lead to improvements in student achievement-ACER

Number 3 The Digest: How school and teachers can use data to inform teaching in ways that lead to improvements in student achievement-ACER

Key points that I take from this article are...

• A characteristic of good data is its potential to help teachers make good decisions about children's learning. Data tell a story... The two questions uppermost in a teacher's mind should be: What does it all mean and; how can we use it to improve children's achievements?
• Teachers need to be explicit about how they are going to teach differently to improve achievement.
• Teachers need to look closely to see if their teaching matches the needs of the students in THIS year's class.
• To go back to identifying the "hot spots" in subject data e.g., Numeracy hotspots for Place Value
• At pupil level effective assessment...informs individual targets, highlights weaknesses for individuals and groups, provides evidence that supports decisions and focus resources and teaching and informs setting and grouping of students.
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