Publications

A Little Guide for Teachers: Using Student Data (2024)

Student data can be one of the most powerful tools a teacher can use to help their students to learn. In this book, Richard Selfridge offers practical advice for teachers on how to gather useful student data in the classroom and how to use these findings effectively to enhance your teaching.

The Little Guide for Teachers series is little in size but BIG on all the support and inspiration you need to navigate your day-to-day life as a teacher.

• Authored by experts in the field
• Easy to dip in-and-out of
• Interactive activities encourage you to write into the book and make it your own
• Read in an afternoon or take as long as you like with it!

Dataproof Your School: How to use assessment data effectively

Collecting and analysing data to monitor and challenge school standards is an increasingly important – and unavoidable – aspect of our education system. But how do we ensure we are generating useful information to support learning and make informed decisions, and not needlessly ramping up workload?

This book will guide you through the different types of data schools can, and should, generate; how to make the best use of it, and what to avoid. From standardised tests and teacher assessment, to managing data and developing a data strategy, this book will equip you with the tools you need to dataproof your school.

Databusting for Schools: How to Use and Interpret Education Data

Data rules schools and ignorance is far from bliss. From assessment results to questioning educational claims, there is a growing need to understand the numbers used in education. Education data blogger and teacher Richard Selfridge unravels the complexities of dealing with educational data and explains statistics in an understandable, everyday way, relevant to your classroom and your school.

He will take you through all you need to know about data and statistics in education including:

• Where does education data come from?
• The what, why and how of numbers.
• Understanding different types of graphs and how to use them.
• How to play around with data to see the bigger picture.
• How to interpret data, does one thing really lead to another?
• Using data to inform school policy.

A must-read for all teachers, school leaders, data managers, school governors, and anyone in education who has ever looked at statistical data and broken out into a cold sweat.