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U.S. War in Iraq Data Driven Pedagogy Methods Of all of the findings presented within the article "How Practitioners Interpret and Link Data to Instruction: Research Findings on New York City Schools," the one that would more than likely benefit other schools or districts is the notion that data driven decision-making for educators is secondary, and merely an assistive method, in helping teachers come up with ways to more effectively impart learning in their students.

Test data and information in and of itself is merely a tool for use, and what is really important about these results are the varying ways that teachers employ them. To that end, the additional data that other schools or districts would need to analyze would be the efficacy of some of the methods described within this article for assisting learners.

Specifically, these other districts should examine which components of, say, differentiated instruction yield greatest results -- heterogeneous grouping, peer tutoring with a high scoring and a low scoring student, or perhaps modifying materials and texts to address needs indicated by the test results. Analyzing and collecting this data would certainly aid in improving methods of pedagogy, which is the whole point of using data driven teaching methods.

Personally, one of the best measures propounded by this article that I would consider using within my own classroom is employing the information ascertained from testing as a starting point to encourage significant dialogue with students, parents, and administrators as outlined in the "Supporting Conversations" section of this document.

Doing so would give me, and any other teacher, a concrete, objective basis for discussing potential strengths and weaknesses that a student has, as well as shedding a considerable amount of elucidation towards what methods could prove useful in aiding such a student.

A greater degree of clarity (and, ideally, cooperation) could spawn from these conversations, particularly between pedagogues and parents, as these test scores may prove beneficial in determining student goals and ideally spreading the responsibility of the ownership of a student's learning to that student, his or her parents, and to administrative officials, as well.

In addressing the problem that it really takes a communal effort related to the ownership of the responsibility of a student's learning, one potential difficulty from utilizing testing data in supporting conversations with parents and administrative officials is that test data, although certainly objective, is not always indicative of a student's true potential, his or her strengths, or his or her weaknesses. In fact, many students may have other syndromes such as test taking anxiety that causes them to not perform at the level which cognitively, they are capable of.

Some students do not learn and express their aptitude for learning via the taking of tests. Some students can do so better verbally, or perhaps in a written form of expression, or in myriad other ways that may be related to learning differences. Therefore, teachers and others engaged in conferences in which test data is used should certainly bear this inherent limitation in mind about this sort of data. I believe that up until this point, this assignment has had the most value for me as a.