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* Don’t you ever feel like the new buzz phrase, data-driven instruction, just means with gather all this data and then never do anything with it? James Turner, the head of the assistance team for a Pennsylvania School District, feels the same way. Across America, educators, parents and students are swimming in an overload of data, much of which seems unrelated and difficult to use. The real trick is deciding what data is helpful, what data is useless, and how to use the data effectively. * How often do we tell our students when working on a word problem to “get rid of the junk”? When we read this problem, we realize that we don’t need to know what the man wears, eats, or what his friend does. This is useless data. But when we are talking about individual students, it is often difficult to tell what data is helpful and what data just muddies the waters. While the state does look at individual schools, in reality it is looking at districts as a whole. The state also tracks percentages of students who are classified. At the district level, overall numbers are looked at for schools, especially % below average stanine on screening assessment. At the school level, data such as grades making AYP, how subgroups are doing – these subgroups include male, female, ethnicity, SES, special education students At the classroom level, individual students are carefully looked at. Data from diagnostic screening, scores on quarterly assessments, ongoing and diagnostic assessments provided by research-based reading program, scores on tests given by reading recovery and/or reading specialists, anecdotal notes on students, and information on what interests and motivates individual students all plays into this level of data. When the data actually impacts on individual students, it becomes data that is alive. The data gathered by individual students has immediate impact on each child in the classroom only if the data is used to make decisions. * * Unused data is useless data. When yo