6. A Case Management Approach to Monitoring Student Progress
A case management approach to monitoring student progress requires literacy leaders and teachers in the school to come together as a group to analyse student data and to make decisions on differentiating instruction and selecting appropriate resources for use with students.
Teachers and administrators use assessment tools to collect:
- diagnostic and formative classroom literacy achievement data, e.g. running records, interest surveys, daily samples of student work
- summative school and system-wide literacy achievement data, e.g. Observational Surveys, PM Benchmarks, Maths Assessment Interviews
- summative large scale literacy achievement data, e.g. (NAPLAN Reading and Writing assessments)
A case management approach puts individual faces on the data and ensures consistent review and updating of information on students' progress. As the tracking process is implemented, data is gathered and displayed in such a way that it becomes the focus of problem-solving dialogue among teachers and other staff involved in each student's case.
Case management encourages all teachers to take collective responsibility for all students. The data collected not only helps plan the next steps to meet the needs of each student, but also next steps to meet the professional development needs of the school and staff.
Case management encourages all teachers to take collective responsibility for all students. The data collected not only helps plan the next steps to meet the needs of each student, but also next steps to meet the professional development needs of the school and staff.
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Quality Catholic Schooling Link
A high priority is given to the school-wide analysis and discussion of systematically collected data on student outcomes, including academic, attendance and behavioural outcomes, and student wellbeing. Data analyses consider overall school performance as well as the performances of students from identified priority groups, evidence of improvement/regression over time, performances in comparison with similar schools, and, in the case of data from standardised tests, measures of growth across the years of school.