A variety of data were used to inform these practices,
with academic performance data, such as benchmark assessments and teacher created formative assessments, were used most frequently.
Excellent Schools Detroit (ESD), a coalition of philanthropic, education, and community leaders, began grading publicly funded schools based on school climate and
academic performance data in 2012.
We surveyed over 1,100 entering college freshmen, majoring in business and engineering at a public university in the US, and combined this information with administrative data to create a comprehensive data set that, in addition to the
usual academic performance data, cognitive ability measures, and demographics, also included measures of non-cognitive skills, personality traits, and student expectations about college success.
State -
level academic performance data are either nonexistent prior to 1990 or, as in the case of the SAT, are unrepresentative of statewide student populations.
I do not have access to all of that data, but I do have access to
their academic performance data, and a friend of mine suggested I might compare their results pre - and post - Common Core.