Using Student Performance Data to Inform Instructional Practice John H. Tyler Brown University

Dashboard Web Log Analysis 215,000 lines of web log data on 429 “core subject” teachers in grades ,228 separate logins to Dashboard from August 3, 2008 – May 31, 2009 With these data I track: – Logins to Dashboard – Which pages get viewed – How much time is spent on each page

Basic Usage Statistics Average teacher: – Logged in 33 times in school year – Spent about 7 hours on Dashboard during that time How did they spend their time?

Analysis focuses on: Class pages Students-in-class pages Individual student pages Item pages Resource pages

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9 ~ 170 teachers (~ 40%) spent 1 hr. or less during the year looking at student pages

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Is Principal Usage Related to Teacher Usage? Not really