Data Use Course
Training on using data for school improvement
The Data Use Course provides valuable materials, templates, tools and activities that help build capacity within school-based teams to establish a culture of utilizing data to inform decisions about policy, programs, and instructional practice.
The Data Use Course is based on the inquiry model which provides a framework to support PLCs as they learn how to use data for problem solving and decision making in their schools. The model has the following stages of inquiry: Discovery, Diagnosis, Doing, and Evaluation. The inquiry needs to be proceeded by the Preparation stage which allows for proper planning, building the capacity and competences in the team of educators collaboratively working to improve student outcomes. In the course, the presented stages guide a PLC through all critical steps of the inquiry process, providing an opportunity for the PLC to iteratively learn the process. In addition to guiding the PLCs through a structured development process the DATAUSE Course also focuses on helping participants to develop the technical, analytical, and collaborative skills necessary to implement the Data Use Theory of Action and to use data to improve teaching and learning.
The course curriculum includes 14 modules and each module can be delivered in a 3 hour session. Modules 1 and 2 are Preparation modules that will build the capacity of the PLC to engage in data work. Modules 3 - 11 take the PLC through each stage of the data use inquiry model: Discovery, Diagnosis, Doing, and Evaluation. Module 12 helps the PLC data team use their newly gained knowledge and skills to build an improvement plan for data use in the school. In Module 13, the PLC members can continue to apply what they learned in Modules 3 - 11 to deepen their investigation of the initial problem identified by the PLC or follow the same process to address a new problem. In Module 14, PLCs will summarize the progress they have made in data use in their school and reflect upon the initiatives they implemented throughout the course. They will prepare for continuing the data use work into the future throughout the school by crafting and seeking approval for a school-wide vision for data use.
| Preparation How do we organize for data use? |
Module 1: Getting Started |
| Discovery What's the issue or problem? |
Module 3: Identifying a Problem |
| Diagnosis What's the root cause? |
Module 5: Analyzing Discovery Data |
| Doing What are we going to do about it? |
Module 8: Brainstorming Initiatives |
| Evaluation What results did we get? |
Module 11: Preparing for Evaluation |
| Additional modules | Module 12: Building a data use improvement plan |
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