A Case Study of the Impact of the Middle School Data Coach on Teacher Use of Educational Test Data to Change Instruction
Description:
With the advent of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in 2002 and its attendant increases in accountability pressure, many districts and schools currently embrace data analysis as an essential part of the instructional decision making process. In their attempts to overcome low achievement on state-mandated tests, some districts have begun employing data coaches. The study reported here, which was set in three middle schools in a northeast Texas school district, assessed the influence of th…
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Date:
December 2010
Creator:
Hill, Rachelle Phelps
Partner:
UNT Libraries