Begin improvement work by collecting data and close the cycle by evaluating progress¶

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Description¶

This strategy operationalizes the article's process for educators: start an improvement effort with deliberate data collection, and finish it by evaluating whether progress occurred. The abstract describes this as the span of the process the article outlines, "begins with collecting data and ends with evaluating progress," making the two endpoints the concrete bookends educators can implement when tackling problems that defy straightforward measurement.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Access to data sources for collection at the start of the improvement effort

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• teachers, school leaders, and district staff

Target Learning Goals¶

• moving from data to making a difference in schools

Related Strategies¶

• Data-Based Decision-Making for Core Instruction
• Interpret CHAT study results by starting with simple start-to-finish change analysis, then working through relationships among activity elements

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Andrew Hegedus. (2013). Moving from data to making a difference. TASA INSIGHT Magazine 28(2), 17-21. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/moving-from-data-to-making-a-difference/