Making Pupil Data Powerful: A Guide for Classroom Teachers: No. 12 (School Effectiveness S.)

Making Pupil Data Powerful: A Guide for Classroom Teachers: No. 12 (School Effectiveness S.)

by Maggie Pringle (Author), Tony Cobb (Author)

Synopsis

This book shows teachers in middle and secondary schools how to use pupils performance data to enhance teaching and learning. It provides practical advice on analysing performance data, measuring progress, predicting future attainment, setting targets and ensuring continuity and progression. Advice is given on how to: analyse class and individual pupil performance and learning behaviours; measure progress in attainment and pupils motivation to learn; predict future pupil attainment; set targets for improved attainment in class and for personal development; ensure continuity and progression in learning; understand and use nationally produced data for schools. The School Effectiveness Series Making Pupil Data Powerful is the twelfth title in the School Effectiveness series, which focuses on practical and useful ideas for schools and individual teachers. The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning, and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for those they teach.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Publisher: Network Continuum Education
Published: 01 Jul 1999

ISBN 10: 1855390523
ISBN 13: 9781855390522

Author Bio
Maggie Pringle taught English for over twenty years and was the headteacher of a large comprehensive school in West London for nine years. She was an Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Comprehensive Schools (CSCS), working with schools nationally on developing and sharing good practice. She now works as an education consultant and trainer, involving making presentations on a range of issues, including analysing pupil performance and target-setting, effective teaching and learning, and issues of gender in raising achievement. Tony Cobb taught for nearly thirty years, including headships in two Essex schools, spanning sixteen years. He went on to deliver LEA senior management training and was Director of the West Midlands Regional Staff College. After five years as Director of CSCS, Tony worked with national governor associations to produce broadsheets on pupil assessment and target-setting. He is now a trainer for the new National Professional Qualification for Headship, and undertakes LEA consultancies on target-setting and individual school commissions.