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Instruction and Assessment Overview
Category: Instruction and Assessment
California opened its doors to charter schools to improve student achievement, drive innovation and provide expanded educational choices, among other purposes. To enable charter schools to implement distinctive educational visions, the law frees them from many constraints of traditional public school systems. In exchange for this greater autonomy, they are held accountable for student performance. Instruction in charter schools ranges from traditional to highly innovative. Operators...
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The Power of Using Data: What Reasearch Says
Category: Instruction and Assessment
by Susanne Coie, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Winter/Spring 2009 edition of Charter Currents. Research seeking to understand “what works” in schools suggests the benefit of using student performance data to inform instruction. Not all data use is equal, however. Some schools that use data to inform instruction do not, in fact, show higher achievement. Skill in using data appears to be important: some...
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Using a Data-Based Inquiry Cycle
Category: Instruction and Assessment
by Beryl Nelson, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Winter/Spring 2009 edition of Charter Currents. Drowning in data? Some students are struggling? Teachers confused about how data can be used to improve instruction? Schools generate a great deal of data from many sources and make use of data in multiple ways. Charter schools report data to their boards, to their authorizers, to the state,...
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Netbooks: A Cost Effective Computer Option
Category: Instruction and Assessment
by Miles Denniston, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Winter/Spring 2009 edition of Charter Currents. Schools purchasing computers might consider so-called ‘netbooks,’ a new category of small, inexpensive and easily portable laptop. Netbooks can perform word processing, spreadsheet, email and internet functions, yet can cost as little as $300 plus software. Schools typically might use these netbooks as a primary computer or to augment more...
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