Data collection and analysis is very important today in the elementary classroom. It is a resource that is rarely used, but it can in creating a successful year for the teachers and students is crucial. The development of hardware for data acquisition is essential for the implementation. When deciding what to use for data collection, and begin with the end in sight.
What will you expect students to learn at the end of the school year? You need an assessment that shows that learning throughout the year, not only for a short time. A master teacher begins the school year with an evaluation that what students know at the break points in the show by several years. I begin with a multiple-choice test, the sample questions for each unit of learning in this discipline include. This part of the questions were met with the most important standards that you need to teach in the university this year.
After reviewing the results will be great teachers know what they cover in more depth (such as students not yet been introduced on this) and what the curriculum can be brief skim (based on the results of the knowledge test). Readministering test each quarter or semester of the school year to assess the growth in the areas of basic skills. You can also go on your CV, to control what else.