“Using Classroom Data to Improve Student Achievement” - Dennis Fox

"Making instructional decisions without data amounts to committing random acts of teaching…Of the data we have, the most powerful is classroom data. That’s the data that most effectively drives instruction." - Dennis Fox

Description
This video series is based upon an Institute designed by Dennis Fox from the Southern California Comprehensive Assistance Center to build the capacity of principals to help their teachers use their own classroom data for instructional decision-making. Dr. Fox believes that in order for teachers to provide the most effective instruction, instructional decision-making has to be based on data. He also believes that many principals and teachers lack the tools and strategies they need to work with data easily and skillfully. Throughout the Institute, Fox encourages participants to think of data as the evidence we need to “convict” a student of knowing something or being able to do something.

The Institute and this video series is designed to help educators:

• analyze classroom data in relation to standards;
• use a wide range of classroom data to improve achievement;
• organize classroom data in an effective format;
• discuss classroom data in simple terms;
• apply user friendly models of data analysis;
• create time to discuss classroom data;
• make classroom data a daily part of decision-making; and
• create a school culture in which standards and data drive decision-making.

Services Available Through SCOE
The six tapes that are part of this service are available for checkout to interested administrators.  It may be possible to arrange with the Curriculum and Instruction Department to facilitate discussion with a school staff regarding the ideas presented in this video series.

Contact
For more information, contact Mike DeRoss at 842.8440 or Marian Murphy-Shaw at 842-8498.

Updated for school year 2009-10.