Today students are consistently taking tests from elementary school through high school. After these students take all of these tests, where is the data? Who gets it? What do they do with it? What is the point of students taking all of these tests if the data isn't being put to some type of good for the students taking the test?
This weekend I was talking with some teachers and they were talking how students are taking tests from 3rd grade to 8th grade. One talked how their students had been taking different state test for two weeks straight! I thought how crazy! I asked if they ever received Professional Development (PD) days to actually sit down and analyze the data. The response I received was somewhat interesting. The teacher told me that they were actually having a PD day coming up. She was told that everyone was going to review the data except for the 8th grade English teachers( which she was). These teachers were being sent to the high school to help analyze other teachers data. How strange!? The teacher was very disheartened by this because she wanted to see the data her students produced in order to differentiate her lessons and help the students in her class. However, this wasn't happening.
It is important for teacher to review and analyze their students data because they are the ones teaching the students. Therefore, data driven only works when a school systems realizes this fact.
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