Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement

Victoria L. Bernhardt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040224564
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

With the 5th Edition of Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement, best-selling Victoria Bernhardt has written the go-to-resource for data analysis in your school! By incorporating collaborative structures to implement, monitor, and evaluate the vision and continuous improvement plan, this book provides a framework to show learning organizations how to create the results they really want for all teachers and all students.

A culmination of over 30 years of doing the hard work in schools and districts both nationally and internationally, this 5th Edition shares new, evidence-based information and shows how to analyze, report, communicate, and use multiple measures of data, to create a shared vision and a continuous school improvement plan that gets implemented – a plan that doesn't just gather dust on an office shelf.

The revised edition is updated throughout including new chapters on school processes, student achievement, and evaluation. As always, Dr. Bernhardt provides a wealth of tools, protocols, timelines, examples, and strategies that will help schools and districts become genuine learning organizations.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 From a Complying School to a Learning Organization, Through Continuous School Improvement and Comprehensive Data Analysis
• Chapter 2 The Continuous School Improvement Framework
• Chapter 3 Who we are: Demographics Data
• Chapter 4 How we do Business: Perceptions Data
• Chapter 5 Student Learning
• Chapter 6 What are our Processes: School Processes Data
• Chapter 7 How did we Get to where we are: Looking Across all the Data
• Chapter 8 What is Working and what is not Working: Delving Deeper into the Data
• Chapter 9 Where do we Want to be: Creating a Shared Vision and Monitoring its Implementation
• Chapter 10 How Can we Get to where we Want to Be: Implementing the Shared Vision by Creating a Plan for Continuous School Improvement
• Chapter 11 Strategies for Teachers: Using Data to Implement the Vision through the Continuous School Improvement Plan to Improve Teaching and Learning
• Chapter 12 Is what we are Doing Making a Difference: Evaluating our Efforts
• Chapter 13 Continuous School Improvement Timeline: Making Time to do the Work
• Appendix A: Continuous Improvement Continuums Self-Assessment
• Appendix B1: Demographic Data Inventory
• Appendix B2: Perceptions Data Inventory
• Appendix B3: Student Learning Data Inventory
• Appendix B4: School Processes Data Inventory
• Appendix C: Getting to Perceptions through Questionnaires
• Appendix C1: Designing Questionnaires
• Appendix C2: Administering Questionnaires
• Appendix C3: Analyzing Questionnaire Results
• Appendix C4: Analyzing Open-Ended Responses
• Appendix C5: Presenting and Using Questionnaire Results
• Appendix D: Measuring a Program or Process
• Appendix E: Flowcharting School Processes
• Appendix F: Case Study ~ Part 1 The Case Study and Study Questions
• Appendix G: Case Study ~ Part 2 what we Saw in the Data
• Appendix H: Analyzing Data for Continuous School Improvement Planning
• Appendix I: Problem-Solving Cycle
• Appendix J: Creating a Shared Vision
• Appendix K: Monitoring Vision Implementation
• Appendix L: Continuous School Improvement (CSI) Plan
• Appendix M: Monitoring the Implementation of the Plan
• Appendix N: Leadership Structure
• Appendix O: Professional Learning Calendar
• Appendix P: Creating Partnerships
• Appendix Q: Communication Protocol
• Appendix R: Examining Student Work
• Appendix S: Ability to Achievement
• Appendix T: Timeline for Continuous School Improvement Work
• References and Resources
• INDEX