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RESOURCES
The resources on this page are available for download. Please acknowledge their source in any use.
- The use of data
- 7 principles for data: a summary of the key ideas in dealing with data concerning student achievement.
- The Data Divide: do we use our data for questions or for judgment? (This is a .pps file; you will need Powerpoint.)
- The Four Types of Data: Strengths, weaknesses & ways of using. (Again, a .pps file)
- Data Architecture: how analysis, presentation and architecture fit together.
- Understanding the idea of Comparative Learning Gain - another .pps download
- A summary of the features of a good Data Wall
- Data Forensics as a way of moving forward from a data overview
- Issues in measuring Learning Gain in NAPLAN
- Teachers Know Best: a great summary of current research on the use of data by teachers and students from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- HSC Data Analysis
- Key Links and websites for accessing and using the Analysis
- The eLearning Modules which take users through the different elements of the Analysis - and there is a transcript
- The published paper on the methodology for the Analysis; cite this as DeCourcy, J.S. (2005), "Using HSC Data to Give Principals Leverage", Proceedings of the ACER Research Conference, p.93-101
- Unpacking your Analysis, a 2-page guide to the questions you as a school leader might ask as you work through each stage of the Analysis package.
- An explanation of how the HSC Analysis fits with NESA RAP.
- A powerpoint outlining the use of NAPLAN as a measure of prior achievement.
- Advice on how to use confidence limits ("whiskers") in interpreting trends graphs.
- An excellent explanation of the ATAR from Prof Jacqui Ramagge
- George Cooney & John DeCourcy's paper on advising Year 10 students in HSC subject selection: Choosing Wisely, Choosing Well
- The Conversation has published an excellent set of articles on Yr 11 & 12 subject selection
- The HSCnaplan file can be useful when advising students.
- It can be useful to re-sort downloaded student achieved and typical marks using the student sorter.
- Professional Learning
- The Australian Professional Teaching Standards form the basis for PL.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measuring Effective Teaching (MET) Project, along with the paper outlining the background survey.
- Summary of John DeCourcy's doctoral research on Measuring Effective Teaching from 20 years earlier, but coming to much the same conclusions as the Gates MET project.
- The Irving Student Evaluation of Accomplished Teaching is referenced in John Hattie's Visible Learning for Teachers as Appendix F. The full text can be obtained via the published thesis.
- The Pivot Professional Learning process, a commercial process based on student evaluations around the first five AITSL standards.
- Dylan Wiliams has some excellent online videos on formative assessment for teachers.
- Helen Timperley's MetaAnalysis of Research on Teacher-Learning
- Andy Hargreaves & Michael Fullan on Professional Capital, along with a powerpoint summary (a download)
- Viviane Robinson on Effective Leadership
- Andreas Schleicher's talk on Giving Teachers a Voice
- Strategic Planning
- ACER's National School Improvement Tool: a powerful guide for strategic planning in schools
- Rittel and Webber's timeless paper on Wicked Problems
- The McKinsey reports on the world's top-performing educational systems, and how they do it - 2007 and 2010
- The brilliant Andreas Schleicher on Quality and Equity - a 45-minute video
- A 4 of the use of data in leadership and strategic planning