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Data Driven Instructional Decision Making

A framework

Data –Driven Instruction

Data-driven instruction is characterized by cycles

that provide a feedback loop

in which teachers plan and deliver instruction, assess student understanding through the collection of data, analyze the data, and then pivot instruction based on insights from their analysis.

From: Teachers know best: Making Data Work For Teachers and Students Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation https://s3.amazonaws.com/edtech-production/reports/Gates-TeachersKnowBest-MakingDataWork.pdf

Data-Driven Decision Making Process Cycle

Data Planning and

Production

Data Analysis

Developing an Action

Plan

Monitoring progress

Measuring Success

Implementing the Action

Plan

Data is used

From : Teachers know best: Making Data Work For Teachers and Students

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

https://s3.amazonaws.com/edtech-production/reports/Gates- TeachersKnowBest-MakingDataWork.pdf

Data –Driven Instruction Feedback Loop

Data Planning and

Production

Data Analysis

Developing an Action Plan

Monitoring progress

Measuring Success

Implementing the Action

Plan

Data –Driven Instruction Feedback Loop

Data Planning and

Production

Data Analysis

Developing an Action Plan

Monitoring progress

Measuring Success

Implementing the Action

Plan

Instructors need to facilitate this data –driven instruction decision loop in a timely and smooth fashion

…and on an ongoing basis • Per student • Per class • Per group

Data –Driven Instruction Feedback Loop

Roles Inherent in the Data-Driven Instruction Decision Making Loop

• Planner

• Data Producer

• Data Analyst

• Monitor

• Reporter

• Data End User

• IT

• Operations and Logistics

Data Planning and Production Questions

• What questions are to be addressed in future data-informed conversations? Which questions are more important?

• What information (metrics) are needed to answer these question? • Is the information available and feasibly attainable? • Are the necessary technology and resources available? • How can current non-data based instructional decision making be

mapped to data-based instructional decision making process? • What are the costs associated with this endeavor? • What are the timelines ? • How and when will the data be collected and stored?

Data Analysis Questions

• What relations exists between the metrics? What patterns do the data reveal?

• How many levels of the metric are needed to answer the questions?

• Do the original questions need to be revised or expanded? • Do the original metrics need to be redefined or expanded? • What analytical tools are currently available? What tools

need to be designed to support the analysis? • What method of analysis or evaluation will be used? • What are the data limitations, strengths, challenges, context?

Monitor Questions

• How are the metrics evolving as the learning and instructional processes evolve?

• By whom or how are the challenges to the process going to be detected and addressed?

• How to monitor the improvement processes that were put into place as a result of the monitoring?

• What determines whether progress is being made?

Data Driven Instruction Final Project Report Question: How can Instructors at a distance, educate and support learners through the end of the 2020 academic year while maintaining the health and safety of learners, staff, and the community?

1) Provide descriptions of how these issues will be addressed in your fictitious distance learning setting. Please ensure that you provide a descriptive overview of your setting

• Learner Equitable Exposure to Materials • Learner Accountability • Learner Personalized Learning Process • Instructor Work Expectations

2) Determine minimally 2 metrics that could be measured to monitor and measure progress and/or challenges related to the 4 issues above

3) Address minimally 3 data planning, analysis, monitoring, and measurement questions for each of the 4 issues above

4) Devise and action plan associated with supporting the fictious Learner Personalized Learning Process you’ve devised