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Data for Teachers
What data have we been collecting from teachers?
Each day, teachers in our study answer key questions about their writing instruction on our adaptive survey. Their responses generate more than 75 data points per lesson, which enable us to gather an enormous amount of data without taking more than 3 minutes of a teacher's time.
Sample Survey Questions
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Grammar activities
Individual sentences
Short response(s) or paragraph(s) that are not part of a longer product
Essay, report, or paper
Letter
Narrative and/or creative writing
Students did not do any writing during this lesson
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5 minutes
10 minutes
15 minutes
20 minutes
25 minutes
30 minutes
35 minutes
40 minutes
45 minutes
50 minutes
55 minutes
60 minutes
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Yes
No
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The individual student
Teacher
Peers
School faculty (e.g., administrator, custodian, guidance counselor, other teachers)
Family members (e.g., parents, guardians, siblings, grandparents)
Standardized test grader
External audience (e.g., politician, newspaper, college admissions officer, employer)
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Teacher thinking aloud
Teacher modeling
Reviewing a rubric or checklist
Analyzing a teacher-written model piece of writing
Analyzing a published piece of writing (mentor text)
Analyzing an exemplary piece of student writing
Analyzing a piece of writing to identify areas of improvement
Discussion (whole class or small group)
Students working on a collaborative piece of writing
Independent writing
Setting or reflecting on progress toward goals
None of the above
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Individualized oral feedback from a teacher
Individualized written feedback from a teacher
Whole-class feedback from a teacher
Peer feedback
Individualized feedback from an online program
No, not on this piece of writing
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Conferenced with students to assess understanding
Looked at student work to assess understanding
Calculated percent correct
Used a checklist
Used a rubric based on an external assessment (e.g., state or national exams)
Used a rubric that is part of a curriculum
Used a school or district-created rubric
Used a teacher-created rubric
Did not assess today
How do we reflect teachers' data back to them?
Treatment teachers have a personalized data dashboard that aggregates and summarizes their daily writing instructional practices from across the year. This private dashboard allows teachers to reflect on their own instructional practices.
In the example dashboard above, the teacher can see which skills they have spent the most time on, as well as how the amount of time devoted to writing instruction has varied over time.