Resources

This page collects useful resources intended to both help individual teachers to deepen their understanding of DataDirector and for district technical and curriculum representatives and principals to find hints on how to dissemiante DataDirector in schools.

Application Examples
Application examples collect some common decision making problems or tasks encountered by the principals and teachers, and provide viable DataDirector solutions to these problems.

Remediation Resources
Remediation resources provide links to benchmark specific remediation information.

Practical guides on data-based decision making in schools
http://www.ael.org/dbdm/overview.cfm

This is a very useful website developed collaboratively by Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and AEL, a nonprofit educaiton research, development, and services institution. It provides rationales for implementing data-based decision making in schools, a framework for data-based decision making, and practical advice on how to proceed with each step during data-based decision making.

How to use data to make instructional decisions
http://www.ncrel.org/datause/dataprimer/

This instructional website is developed by North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. It shows you step-by-step how to make instructional decisions based on your students' data.

Ways to analyze data
http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/data/document.shtm?input=FOC-003007-index
This is a brief article that discusses several ways of analyzing student achievement data if the aim is to close achievement gap.