If schools are to maximize student learning, several different contributors must use dependable assessment results to inform a wide variety
of important educational decisions.
School Improvement Services provides leadership and assistance in current best practices regarding managing, accessing and using data to
drive important educational decisions to advance student learning.
I guess that means that even though the child's individual 7th grade CMT scores can and will be used
for important educational decisions, the same information can not be used for important education decisions if they are used to calculate the same child's vertical scores.
Autonomies Coupled with Responsibility refers to the ability of all participants in a school community to
make important educational decisions, share responsibility for implementing those decisions, and assume ownership for the outcomes of those decisions.
Testing shouldn't be done for the sake of testing; instead, results from assessments should be used to make
important educational decisions, such as identifying students with difficulties, allocating resources, determining what students have learned, and informing instruction.
Her consulting duties include serving as the Teacher Liaison for the East Tennessee Math Science Partnership, where she provides training in the Using Data process and facilitates the ongoing use of data to make
important educational decisions and works with teachers on subject appropriate pedagogy.
Using student learning in response to instruction to make
important educational decisions is one of the core components of an RtI program.