EDB 574

Data-Driven Classroom Instruction

This course is designed to provide teachers in their first years of professional practice with background knowledge and analytical skill sets necessary to make valid use of various data sets in the classroom as a way to improve student learning and teaching on a continuous basis. Stemming from a contextualized definition of "data-driven" classroom instruction, the course connects assessment practices and differentiation with identifying appropriate sources of data, analyzing them, and using findings to strengthen classroom dynamics and curriculum negotiations. At the same time, communication strategies are investigated based on the various needs of education stakeholders, so that teachers become "assessment literate" and disseminators of effective teaching and learning data from their respective classrooms.

Units: 3.0