Driven by Data 2.0: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction

Great book and guidance.

This book helped me to understand why data is so important and how we can use it as a vehicle to drive instruction.

I highly recommend Driven by Data 2.0: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction. The videos and materials are very helpful.

Very helpful and practical!

I think the information is extremely helpful and will be using it moving forward with my department. Where I believe this could be improved is having easier access to the videos. Who still uses DVD at this stage of the game? That concept needs to be rethought. Other than that I have been enjoying the book tremendously.

Came in record time and in excellent shape!

As described.

Needed this book for class

The book is based on the US grade system and has been used in practice over many schools. It’s a way of sensibly assessing what children learn in order to address gaps in their knowledge before moving on. This seems all the more relevant to the UK system where content is firmly age related. It is designed as a top down approach across the school. The physical copy comes with a DVD of sample videos of the technique in practice. I can’t see any additional online resources mentioned, so there may be issues if you purchase the Kindle version.

Great reading, as an educator you yourself never stop learning, so this book was really useful. I learnt a few things from this and have passed it on to a colleague to to read.

I’ve found this really useful for helping to get my head around school data. For anyone who is looking at data and trying to use it to improve things this is a good guide.

As someone who teaches in the FE sector in the UK, I was intrigued by this book. We use a lot of data in our profession, and I'm glad to say where I work, increasingly it is joined up and you can see patterns and the such like that you may have missed before. As noted elsewhere here, we are also obliged supply the government with data, principally results which are then put into league tables so that people can make informed choices. Of course that's a very crude measure, especially in FE where we have a lot of vocational courses and are starved of funds. It's even a cruder measure when looking at creative courses where we can have truly talented and exceptional students who go on to be very successful in their chosen field, but fail to achieve some of the crude yardsticks. Where this book clarifies is by looking at new and innovative ways of using the data you have to inform and guide your teaching. I think the idea is promising, and would like to see it in action. We may have done some of this stuff during teacher training many moons ago, but the authors suggestions and case studies, using modern data collecting and analysis bring them up to date and make for challenging reading. Where the book is limited, and to a certain extent it's not the author's fault is that it is very USA-centric. The examples are based on US schools and practice. While principles can be learned, it would be good to have a UK edition that focussed on our school/college/university system which is largely the same overall, but differs in many places in the detail. And we know where the devil is...

This is a paperback book, around A4 sized. Well written with a good clear type face. There are excellent online resources too. Driven by Data 2.0 helps teaching professionals answer the two key questions know to all leaders in a school setting. How do you know that the children are learning ? If not what are you going to do about it ? The online videos etc help here greatly. I have found that this book’s ideas can be transferred to other suitable situations. Very useful