Using Data to Innovate: How Teachers Develop Student Assessment Systems to Advance New School Visions

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Abstract

This paper reports the results of a year-long qualitative research study of one new school’s efforts to create a K-12 system of student assessment data that reflects their innovative vision for personalized and student-centered instruction. Based on interview, observational, and documentary data, the authors report how teachers articulate, measure, and assess student core competencies, aligned with a common vision and supported by a technology interface designed to promote data use. Findings from this study add to the research literature on assessment and data use by articulating the necessary knowledge and supports teachers in new autonomous schools need to develop and formatively use student assessment data.

Authors

• Jarod N. Kawasaki, University of California - Los Angeles

• Karen Hunter Quartz, University of California - Los Angeles