Gathering Student Level Data After Professional Development

This document provides information on best practices for collecting student data after professional development (PD) to evaluate impact. This resource is part of the Professional Development Formative Assessment System (PD-FAS). PD-FAS was created by the Formative Assessment for Advanced Technician Education 2 (FAS4ATE2) project.

Privacy considerations, types of data to collect, and how to use the data is explored. After reading and using this resource, users will be able to:

• identify the kind of information one can collect from participant teachers to learn about how they are using what they learned in PD, and what their students have learned as a result;
• design systems and structures that protect the privacy of those teachers’ individual students.

This resource includes the following sections: Outcomes, Why should you care, Introduction, How do I protect students' privacy, and What data you might collect.

Other professional development materials from this project are available to view separately.