According to educator and author, Graham Nuthall, in his book The Hidden Lives of Learners, "In most of the classrooms we have studied, each student already knows about 40-50% of what the teacher is teaching." The goal of data-driven instruction is to avoid teaching students what they already know and teach what they do not know in a way the students will best respond to. For the same reason, educators and administrators understand that assessing students and evaluating the results must be ongoing and frequent.
Scheduled assessments are important to the process, but teachers must also be prepared to re- assess students, even if informally, when they sense students are either bored with the daily lesson or frustrated by material they are not prepared for. Using the measurements of these intermittent formative assessments, teachers can fine-tune instruction to meet the needs of their students on a daily and weekly basis.
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