{"id":1093,"date":"2008-12-16T22:40:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T20:20:31","slug":"using-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1093","title":{"rendered":"Using Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I gave a workshop for teachers on using data to improve student achievement.  This is something that is going to become an increasing part of my work, so I may be blogging about it from time to time.  The idea is to cull information about students from a variety of sources, systematically analyze that information in order to identify areas of improvement, and then create an action plan for targeting those areas.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the results of careful data analysis can be surprising.  So often we jump to conclusions about why students aren&#8217;t achieving, or we depend on underlying assumptions that may be based on our own pre-conceived notions.  Consider for a moment this piece of student work:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/snowshovel.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Laugh if you must, but it&#8217;s easy to get the wrong idea from only a cursory examination.  Further investigation revealed that the child&#8217;s mother works at Home Depot, and is here depicted selling snow shovels.  And if you only relied on your initial observations and didn&#8217;t investigate further, you could be lead astray.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the systematic use of data will allow us to avoid such snap judgements and take a more scientific approach to improving student achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I gave a workshop for teachers on using data to improve student achievement. This is something that is going to become an increasing part of my work, so I may be blogging about it from time to time. The idea is to cull information about students from a variety of sources, systematically analyze that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,71,16,12,41,2,23,101,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-data","category-education","category-humor","category-information-literacy","category-meta","category-science","category-teaching-matters","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}