Participants 13
Producing Accurate and Timely Data
Teaching assistant Oliver loads his completed data forms on Friday afternoon.
On Monday afternoon, he has a meeting with his instruction coach. They use the data to discuss the students who are making progress and students who are making less than desired progress. The data was timely as it was available that week so intervention could be within the week.
The accuracy of the data enabled them to be able to easily identify the patterns and assess what the problems were with the instruction and agree on what to focus on to improve student results.
Teacher Mia logged her data then sought out the instruction coach to discuss her concerns about a student in her reading group called David who is falling behind.
They review the data together and look at David’s attendance, independent work, mastery test and checkout scores. They find that he did not pass on the first try for his last three checkouts and mastery tests. He is absent at least one day a week. They decide that Mia will check his placement to see if he places with the lower group or if he needs more individual turns and practice.
Mia also organises a meeting with his parents to discuss how his attendance can be improved.