Translating Data into Information to Improve Teaching and Learning

Bernhardt (professional studies in education, California State U., Chico) advises school administrators and teacher leaders on the collection, creation and effective utilization of student data, specifically through the purchase of a data warehouse. Complementing her Using Data to Improve Student Learning series, she offers advice on collecting types of data useful to school improvement plans, improving the quality of data, planning for a data warehouse to translate data into information, data discovery and mapping, selecting analytical data tools, training for use of the data warehouse, and managing the warehouse. The final chapters comprise case studies demonstrating successful and problematic plans; the appendix contains rubrics for continuous improvement. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)