Mismeasuring Schools' Vital Signs

By Steve Rees, Jill Wynns,

Book cover of Mismeasuring Schools' Vital Signs: How to Avoid Misunderstanding, Misinterpreting, and Distorting Data

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This book helps school and district leaders avoid the pitfalls that await those making sense of their school's data. Whether you're interpreting achievement gaps, graduation rates or test results, you're at risk of reaching a mistaken judgment. By learning about common errors and how they're made, you'll be ready to…

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1 author picked Mismeasuring Schools' Vital Signs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Like professionals in other industries, educators are recognizing the power of data and are using it to guide their decision-making. Yet quantifying what works and what doesn’t when it comes to something as variable-rich as learning is extremely difficult.

Hence, as bright as they are, educators have only a 14% accuracy rate when interpreting student data. Fortunately, authors Rees and Wynns have exactly what is needed to remedy this problem.

They offer the hard-but-important-to-look-at facts concerning data use in our schools and pair it with a clear path to fixing problems. They pull engaging stories from their extensive experience and…

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