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Faculty Technology Workshop, Fall 2003
Data Driven Decision Making & Tips for Using Excel Spreadsheets
November 17, 2003

What type of data that is generated from End-of-Grade tests and how can the data can be analyzed? Does this data inform teaching practice? What should our students know and be able to do with high stakes test data?

Graphing with Excel from the LabWrite project
http://labwrite.ncsu.edu/www/res/gt/gt-menu.html

Testing: Frequently Asked Questions from NCLB
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/accountability/ayp/testing-faq.html

Data from NCDPI for ABC Plan and NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress
http://abcs.ncpublicschools.org/abcs/

Data-Driven Decision Making from Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/data/

Using Student Assessment Data from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.ncrel.org/policy/pubs/html/pivol6/nov2000.htm

Administrator's Guide to Data-Driven Decision Making from Technology & Learning magazine, June 2002, Volume 22, No. 11
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/06/guide.html

Digging for Data from Technology & Learning magazine, March 2003, Volume 23, No. 8
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2003/03/whatworks.html

Math educators are using Texas data to help teachers learn to use statistics
"Accountability Systems and Scaling Up: Using Dynamic Statistics Software for Valid, Fair Instructional Decision-Making"
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/scalingup/sessions/summaries/confrey_websummary.pdf
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/10_18_ma.pdf

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Sponsored by Learning Technologies Resource Center
(part of MiddleData Activities)