Throughout educational literature, we are inundated with messages about the power of assessment to do everything from developing learner agency, to improving the quality of teachers (Wiliams,… Read more “What’s the big data deal?”

A number of times, after sitting through a moderation session with a group of teachers, I’ve asked myself, “Did our rubric really measure what our students are… Read more “The Assessment Capable Teacher, Part 1”

Validity, Reliability, and Fairness As discussed in a previous post, assessment literate teachers – or assessment capable teachers as the PYP calls them – understand standards of… Read more “The Assessment Capable Teacher, Part 2”

It is a well established truism, that our beliefs as teachers impact our practice. This idea was further reinforced in reading Gavin Brown’s article Teachers’ conceptions of… Read more “Teachers’ Beliefs and Assessment Capabilities”

A few years ago I introduced teacher inquiry groups in my school. Teacher inquiry groups (TIGs) are collaborative inquiries conducted by teachers based on an area of… Read more “Using Data in Teacher Inquiry Groups”

Now that I have identified what skills and knowledge we need to be able to make sense of assessment data, I began wondering about what data we… Read more “What data do I have and where is it?”

As PYP teachers, assessment data has a pivotal role in our professional inquiries as a source of “evidence”. However, before we can begin using assessment data purposefully,… Read more “What can my data tell me?”

As one of my professional goals this year, I decided to use protocols with my teaching teams to help us analyse student data to improve instruction. So… Read more “Using Data with Teaching Teams”

I feel I have made a great deal of progress in understanding how to use data with our teaching teams to improve learning for our students. At… Read more “A collection of data questions and concerns”

As my final post in this series, I wanted to review the literature findings to highlight which practices have been effective in helping teachers use assessment data… Read more “Using assessment data with teachers: what works?”