DataWORKS Educational Research

DataWORKS Educational Research was founded in 1997 with the single purpose of using real data to improve student learning, especially for low-performing students. At first, we thought that using real data meant disaggregating student achievement data, and thats what we did. Through word of mouth, we rapidly expanded from analyzing one districts state test results to analyzing the data for more than 600 schools. Schools and districts loved our colorful disaggregated data charts and graphs and our interpretations of what the data meant. In 2000, Corwin Press published our book with Joan Ardovino on assessments, Multiple Measures: Accurate Ways to Assess Student Achievement. We then broadly expanded the data in DataWORKS to include measurement of classroom teaching practices. We began collecting student work to see WHAT students were being taught and we went ino classrooms alongside educators to see HOW students were being taught. We discovered that when teaching practices improv...