The Teacher Uses Data to Make Informed Decisions to Respond to Student Learning

The Teacher Uses Data to Make Informed Decisions to Respond to Student Learning

When teachers address specific group errors, gather immediate and ongoing data about student mastery and make in-the-moment and strategic decisions about student learning, that impacts student achievement.  

How it works:  

• Students become consistently firm in the lesson content and reach mastery in ever shorter times. This results in students making standard progress and catching up. 
• Teachers regularly examine data, paying attention to patterns of success and difficulty. 
• Teachers can attend to student errors and mastery which enables them to be efficient in resolving any learning issues that show up during the lesson. 
• The teacher uses data to inform instructional decisions about whether students can move on, be accelerated or what segments of lessons to repeat. 
• Teachers track student errors to see if students are consistently making errors on a particular skill and if several students are making the same error. 
• The teacher can then immediately respond to students’ needs.