West Virginia State University

College of Professional Studies

Department of Education
Professional Development (PD) Reflection Outline

Name:
Kaylee Dillon
Major Content Area:
Elementary Education
Circle one:
SOPH
PD Topic/Title:
Data Based Decision Making

PD Date:
February 12, 2013
PD Units:
12:30-1:30

Please respond to the following prompts:
1. Summarize the key points you learned from this Professional Development experience.
Data-based Decision Making is making decisions based on data that one is presented. This
standards-based educational reform seeks to improve education through the clear
specialization of desired student outcomes, the measure of students performance, and the
evaluation of the impact of educational practices on actual student performance. This
process is used to improve instruction in the classroom. Data can be gathered through daily
observations, general discussions, homework, projects, papers, and etc.

2. Discuss how these key points connect to your content area.
Data-based decision making will be used in the SCOPE. We are required to collect data from
the lessons that we instruct. We use this data to interpret the students overall
understanding of the new concept. The data should compare all range of learners and both
genders. When analyzing data, it allows us to change our teaching style or strategy to better
meet the students needs.

3. Share how you might use this new information in your future classroom.
It is very important to measure student performance. It doesnt matter if you are teaching
something, if no one understands it. I will definitely use this strategy in my classroom. I will
use data aggregation to look at my class as a whole, are they understanding it? This will let
me know if I need to go back and change the way I presented a key skill. I will also use data
disaggregation to compare the high ability students to the low ability students, gender, and
etc. to see if there is a larger gap than usual. This process will allow me to help individual
students to grasp the concept better.