Tracking student data through formative and summative assessments allows teachers to identify student strengths and weaknesses, make strategic decisions about lessons, and plan differentiated instruction to help students master skills. Teachers should create tracking systems for each class and student to monitor progress towards learning goals. Tracking motivates students by providing accountability and driving them to set individual academic goals.

1. How Tracking Student
Data Improves
Teaching Practices
By
Bernard Pierorazio

2. Introduction
❖ Determining student progress is a process in which
teachers gather evidence to evaluate how students are
progressing with the curriculum and their own annual
learning goals.
❖ Planning ways to gather evidence of student learning is
vital in determining the effectiveness of past instruction
and a teacher’s ability to modify upcoming lessons that
better support student needs.

3. Collecting the Data
❖ As an educator, it is your job to collect data on student
performances and internalize it in the most efficient and
effective way possible.
❖ To do this, teachers should use formative and
summative progress checks to help ensure they are
creating and delivering lessons that lead students
toward mastery and ultimately meet their annual
learning goals.

4. Tracking Students
❖ In addition, teachers should use this information and
create a tracking system for each class and every
student.
❖ Tracking student progress is not an end in itself, but a
means of monitoring and promoting positive student
outcomes.

5. Why is Tracking Important?

6. Why is tracking important?
❖ Tracking propels student academic growth by helping
the teacher accurately identify students’ strengths and
weaknesses for development, make more strategic
decisions about future lessons, and plan for
differentiated instruction that leads to student mastery.
❖ Teachers should use formative and summative progress
checks to help ensure they are creating and delivering
lessons that lead students toward mastery and
ultimately meet their annual learning goals.

7. What can student tracking do for you?
❖ Tracking also provides your students with a sense of
accountability for their own personal work and effort
within the classroom. This in turn can motivate and
drive students to individualize their own academic
goals for future success later on within the year.

8. How Do You Track Your
Students?

9. Follow or Create a System
❖ Tracking your students can be a somewhat meticulous process. But as you can see,
there is more upside in developing each individual in order for them to hit their
goals.
❖ To do this effectively, follow or create a particular tracking system. At many of
your schools, they should already have a system in place to track between classes
and amongst each students.
❖ This break down should highlight the overall average, your school’s set standards,
and the individual student’s overall strengths and weaknesses.
❖ If possible utilize a coloring system
❖ Keep in mind, teaching is not a one size fit all system. Because of this, tailor your
tracking system to reflect your style and your students’ interest.

10. For Each Student
❖ To make sure your students get the best out of this, make sure you
break down your data in various checkpoints, Teacher notes, and
overall assessments.
❖ Be sure to include their state mandated scores as well as your own
benchmarks and standards for both formative and summative
assessments.
❖ If possible, make sure a majority of this information is quantifiable and
understandable to both you and your students. For your students to
gain the most out of this process, they need to make sure they can
understand and internalize these numbers.

11. Class Tracking System
❖ As an option for student motivation, make sure you can
provide a class tracking chart that can assess how well each
class is doing against one another.
❖ Make sure the system can break down the following:
❖ Items on an assessment
❖ Standards covered in class
❖ Content Skills
❖ Mastery

12. One-on-One Meetings

13. Reflection
❖ To make sure your students fully internalize the
information, be sure to explain and reflect on your
students’ results.
❖ Allow each student to create their own personal
educational goals.

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