Using Evidence In Teaching Practice: Implications For Professional Learning

'Using Evidence In Teaching Practice' is a text designed to assist pre-service and practicing teachers to examine the implications of student achievement information for classroom teaching. The ability to use evidence to reflect on the quality of teaching and learning is emerging as an essential tool in a teacher's professional armoury. The highly practical ideas in this book are based on research that shows when teachers used evidence in this way, student achievement improved. The text draws on the experience of teachers involved in this and other research, to illustrate the different parts of the process and provides many reading and writing examples from New Zealand classrooms.

Each chapter outlines key considerations when teachers use evidence to inform their teaching. These considerations range from becoming aware of the information teachers use to construct their "logs-in-the-head" on individual children as they observe in classrooms, to mining more formally collected information from standardized assessment instruments.
Chapters conclude with a brief section on how the information may be used by teachers in professional learning communities.