Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning

Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools’ abilities to capture teachers’ knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.

This revised and expanded edition captures the learning that has emerged in integrating the Data Wise process into school practice and brings the book up-to-date with recent developments in education and technology including:

Kathryn Parker Boudett is a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and director of the Data Wise Project. Elizabeth A. City is director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program and a lecturer on education at HGSE. Richard J. Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE.