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Getting Excited About Data : Combining People, Passion, and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement
Getting Excited About Data Combining People Passion and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement
Author: Edie L. Holcomb
"It was a pleasure reading Getting Excited About Data. I found it precise and on target for enabling school personnel to effectively use their schools' data to plan improvement." — Theodore Creighton, Executive Director — National Council of Professors of Educational Leadership — "The book is written in friend...  more »

Jill Hudson, Middle School Principal

Madison Middle School, Seattle, WA  

How can we assure that every student is making adequate progress in an era of school and district goals, state standards, and federal ESEA legislation?

Getting Excited About Data, Second Edition builds upon the bestselling first edition to provide additional guidance and support for educators who are "ready, willing and able" to explore more sophisticated uses of data.  New tools and activities facilitate active engagement with data and a collaborative culture of collective responsibility for the learning of all students.

Precise and on target, this excellent new resource enables educators to effectively use their schools’ data to respond to the challenges of the No Child Left Behind Act, providing:

  • A knowledge base emphasizing the role of data in school effectiveness and successful change
  • A focus on tapping the professional passion of dedicated educators who want to work for the benefit of students from an intrinsic motivation perspective
  • Group activities that energize people in collaborative efforts
  • Key questions to identify sources of the proof of success necessary to stimulate confidence and further action
  • A clear understanding of the need for "up close, in real time" assessment to balance high stakes, external tests
  • Information on how to utilize data to establish priorities and integrate accountability requirements with goals that are data-based and grounded in school values  
ISBN-13: 9780761939580
ISBN-10: 076193958X
Publication Date: 2/20/2004
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Corwin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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