A clear pattern emerges when we examine teacher retention and student
academic achievement data in our district: Where teacher turnover is at its highest, academic achievement declines.
To decide whether or not to provide a student with additional supports, school and district leaders rely mainly on test scores and
other academic achievement data.
When we use
only academic achievement data to understand learning and school improvement efforts, we are ignoring a fundamental truth: The goals of education go far beyond linguistic and mathematical learning.
Just as in
academic achievement data gathering, there is a call for appropriate interim and formative assessments to identify opportunities for improvement and monitoring growth.
«Just as schools need help
with academic achievement data for effectiveness, they need guidance on ways to incorporate SEL data into school improvement planning and strategies.
«Just as schools need help with
academic achievement data for effectiveness, they need guidance on ways to incorporate SEL data into school improvement planning and strategies.
A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round
of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.
«Everyone» at CORE, Bookman continues, «understands that we are still going to
use academic achievement data, just more wisely and more appropriately — that's not being taken off the table.
Academic achievement data will be analyzed to show that ND small schools in fact outperform ND large schools.»
In this quasi-experimental study,
academic achievement data were collected over 9 years.