The graduate applies data literacy and analysis skills appropriate to the graduate’s field of specialization to enhance learning and development opportunities for all P–12 students.
2048.1.3 : Best Practices Using Educational Data
The graduate recommends evidence-based practices based on emerging trends in data use appropriate to the field of specialization.
In this task, you will begin by reviewing what you did in Task 1 of this assessment before creating an action plan within your educational setting. An action plan can include a school improvement plan (SIP), a student learning objective (SLO), or a professional learning community (PLC) plan. You will also reflect on best practices for data literacy, including continuous improvement planning, approaches to PLCs, and instructional decision-making processes. You may use the “Action Plan Template” attachment to help guide your submission .
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Write an overview of Task 1: Data Analysis, including the following:
• problem statement
• participants and participant subgroups
• relevant stakeholders
• source the data was selected from
• data analysis
• inferences derived from your analysis
B. Write an action plan, based on your inferences derived from your analysis in part A. Discuss how the action plan can help solve the problem and improve the educational environment in your field of specialization.
1. Describe resources that you will need for the action plan.
2. Describe timelines for the action plan.
3. Describe evidence that the action plan has been implemented.
Note: Examples of an action plan can include but are not limited to an SIP, an SLO, or a PLC plan.
Note: While your role may be that of a principal, curriculum leader, director of English learning, or special education (SPED) teacher, the purpose of this task is to create an action plan based on your analysis of data and the inferences you make based on those data to address the problem identified in part A.
C. Justify how the action plan from part B could be used to help solve the problem and improve the educational environment, using three academic sources that support your position.
1. Discuss how using the iterative decision-making cycle as part of the action plan may solve the problem.
D. Discuss the action plan in terms of its issues of validity, reliability, and ethics.
E. Discuss strategies that you could use to promote the action plan to stakeholders.
F. Describe two examples of emergent education trends related to data literacy that could help drive continuous improvement within your educational setting.
Note: Examples include but are not limited to the following: how data are used in the context of methods that engage and motivate students, effective use of technology, project-based learning, increased engagement with content by using real-world data, and collaboration between educators and other stakeholders to ensure goals are being met.
G. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
H. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.