Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement

After I attended a training session in June, I felt that I absolutely needed my own copy of this book. I'm happy to say that it was money well-spent! Dr. Bernhardt and her team have done a great job of laying out explicit examples and clear procedures of how to collect the data that CSI schools need. It helps that I've been through the training; I wouldn't really recommend trying to use this book without it. You could muddle through, I'm sure, but do so at your own risk. (I'm not a compensated endorser, so don't worry about bias or nepotism, at least not from me!)

Excellent book providing background and practical use of data in our schools. Between the content within the text and the appendices, a school administrator would be able to work with stakeholders to create a Shared Vision and a Continuous School Improvement Program. I thoroughly enjoyed using this book for my graduate level coursework.

I used this in two contexts; first as a school principal, and then, a few years later, as a graduate school professor teaching a course on assessment for administrators. I had actually forgotten about the book until it showed up on the mandatory book list. After sifting through several of the mandatory books, I went back to old faithful almost exclusively for the course. Very practical. Very digestible. Comprehensive, without being onerous.

Nice to have digital version. Hard to read the charts in the book on the Kindle App or Windows App. Had to download older Windows Kindle program to be able to see the charts.

With the third edition of Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement, Victoria Bernhardt continues to hit home runs. Writing in an easy-to-read style, Dr. Bernhardt does a superb job of explaining the need for more than student achievement data in order to continuously improve schools at all levels. Too many people who claim they want to improve schools do not incorporate demographics, perceptions, and school processes in their improvement plan; and they wonder why their plans fall short. Using the Continuous School Improvement framework that Dr. Bernhardt developed, all educators can develop a vision that has a laser focus on school improvement and develop a logical and sustainable plan to implement the vision. The activities and facilitation guides in the Appendix are wonderful tools to enable the readers to do the work themselves. College professors in Colleges of Education should be using this book. In fact, all educators should have this book in their personal library.

The best use of this text is for a school administrative team that wants to develop a school improvement plan. The work in this text is well-explained and has excellent models. A school would need at least a year to go through the whole cycle explained in this book. I thought of using it for a grad course I teach, but it's almost impossible for grad students to conduct this work unless they're already an administrator.

Great book! Up and coming information. Bought it for my online class. My school is now using this information that they learned about at the same time I was taking the class. Lots of important information for purposeful use of data to improve student learning. LOTS of information, charts, etc. Priceless.

This book is amazing. I read it and annotated within a week and I can't wait to use the framework as part of my teaching practice. The original purpose was for ed leadership development but this is a great source for teachers, especially those seeking to become National Board certified.