8th Annual DATAWISE Users' Conference
DATAWISE IN ACTION: Connecting the Platform, Assessment Content, and Data for Student Success!
November 9-10 at the Best Western Plus Beach Resort Monterey
We listened to your comments and designed a program to make it your best conference yet! Learn more about new system features, future enhancements, and best practices over two days in beautiful Monterey.
We will post more information as it becomes available, so check back regularly.
What you get:
- Two full information-packed days.
- More than 20 sessions, designed for both novice and advanced users.
- Hands-on activities.
- Built-in networking opportunities.
- Team-based action planning.
- On-site staff resources - including DATAWISE platform, content, and professional development expertise.
- A peek at DATAWISE 2012.
- A look at The Common Core State Standards and their implications.
- Insights into using Measured Progress Fixed Forms to gauge student growth.
- A rich learning experience and a fresh look at your district's assessment and data management program.
The tracks:
- Using DATAWISE to improve student learning (two sub-strands):
- Novice
- Advanced
- Creating rich assessments
- Purposefully using data to boost student achievement
A sample of session topics:
- The DATAWISE system
- Drilling down with reports
- Test creation using the item bank
- Online testing options
- Advanced reporting
- New tools for connecting data to student learning
- Assessment content
- Writing content-rich items
- Building effective assessments
- Implications of the Common Core State Standards
- Using fixed-form assessments to gauge student growth
- Using data
- Creating a DATAWISE culture (with the Santa Cruz, CA USD)
- Using data to target student interventions (with Uve Dahmen, of the Twin Rivers, CA USD)
- Translating data into instructional action
- Establishing a schoolwide infrastructure for collaboration
- An introduction to the formative assessment process
- E-learning opportunities for DATAWISE users
