Data on Enacted Curriculum

A Professional Development and Technical Assistance Model for Using the Survey of Enacted Curriculum

We are swimming in a sea of data. Which data do we need to analyze to improve teaching and learning? Who needs to analyze the data? How do we involve our instructional staff in using their data?

The Data on Enacted Curriculum model addresses these important questions as well as:

How do we use the data to inform our school improvement plans?

This diagram illustrates the process developed by Using Data / Getting Results to guide school teams in a cycle of data analysis.
How can we determine if we are teaching the content students need?

The Survey of Enacted Curriculum returns data comparing the "taught" or "enacted" curriculum to states' content standards or assessments. This data led one school to closely examine their own curriculum.
Do our lessons elicit the same level of cognitive demand from students, as do our standards and assessments?

SEC results, regardless of reporting format, indicate the amount of time spent on a topic and the expectations for student mastery of that content. Look at the Expectations for Student Learning first to familiarize yourself with the language. Review this content alignment chart in light of cognitive demand.
Do our classroom practices reflect the kinds of teaching strategies we believe will have the most impact on student learning?

Survey data indicates the presence or absence of instructional strategies as well as the range of use among the staff. Triangulating several SEC charts can also help answer questions like the following: Where are our professional development efforts needed? Survey results representing teacher practice and professional setting can be disaggregated by grade level, level of student achievement, per cent minority students, to name a few.

States, districts, and schools who are effectively using Survey of Enacted Curriculum data to help low performing schools, have found greater success when schools have previously worked with their local student learning data to identify student learning problems. In that context, Survey of Enacted Curriculum data fills a vital need to shed light on causal factors affecting teaching and learning.

UDP is designed to develop skilled data facilitators and creates high functioning school-based data teams who use data continuously to reveal student learning problems, conduct causal analysis, generate solutions and develop monitoring plans for interventions.

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