When practicing truth-seeking, we look for multiple sources of data that can give us a rich picture of a challenge or situation. At a classroom level, the busy-ness of the profession can tempt us to forgo using the variety of assessment methods that would otherwise help paint a fuller—and truer—portrait of a student or classroom’s academic progress. Use this activity to have participants read an Education Week article and explore ideas from a number of education experts on how to create a richer portrait of student learning using multiple data sources.
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Using data in schools
Article
45 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Educator-prep | K-12 educators
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
Using data in schools
Article
45 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Critical thinking for college, career, and citizenship
Article
12 minutes
By: Brookings Institute, Diane F. Halpern
How to lead a conversation between people who disagree
Video
9 minutes
By: Eve Pearlman, TED
Why we believe obvious untruths
Article
10 minutes
By: New York Times, Philip Fernbach and Steven Sloman
Honesty playbook
Article
10 minutes
By: Character Lab