Assessment Essentials: Using Data to Measure Student Understanding

About this episode

This episode explores the use of data from assessments to enhance student understanding in K–8 classrooms.

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Amplify. The webinar recording can be accessed here. In this edWeb podcast, we examine the types of data available through observational and asset-based assessments in literacy and math, and their potential in the K–8 classroom. We also explore how real-time data and progress monitoring can drive differentiation and targeted instructional recommendations to best support intervention, remediation, and enrichment. We pull out key examples of assessment items a...

Topics covered

• data assessment
• student understanding
• literacy
• math
• progress monitoring
• differentiation

Keywords

• assessment
• data
• student understanding
• literacy
• math
• progress monitoring
• differentiation
• intervention
• remediation
• enrichment

Sponsors

Amplify

Mentioned in this episode

Places: K–8

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