How to Make Good Use of Data in Schools

Most data in schools is nonsense and is used really really badly. It takes average measures and applies them to individuals so it's difficult then to figure out who the kids that you really actually like are below target because their target's stupid. For every kid that's below target there'll be a kid who's above target and that's again normal and natural. You get sent data that says these kids are below target do something about itYeah right yeah yeah yeahSo let's see how they did in matton english huh? Yeah, i'm secondary secondary data! So what we tend to do in the department is we say right well theseKids are below target let's seeHow they did in Matt