Turning DESSA Data into Action: Analyzing and Applying Results

This comprehensive course empowers educators, instructional leaders, and school-based teams with the skills and strategies to effectively analyze and utilize DESSA data to drive student learning and support. Within a tiered lens, you will learn how to interpret assessment data, identify student strengths and needs, and translate insights into targeted instructional practices and interventions. This course includes demos of how to generate specific reports within the DESSA System to analyze the available data and step-by-step guidance and resources to help educators create data-informed decisions that support student growth.

    1. Welcome!

    2. Before You Begin

    1. Dashboard: Data Preview

    2. Data and Insights Tab: Reports

    3. Filters: Disaggregating Data

    4. Using the Custom Group Filter

    1. Review: DESSA Scores

    2. Descriptive Ranges: Student Examples

    3. Using the DESSA with Tiered Support Systems

    4. Analysis Process

    1. Tier 1: My Students and Grade Level reports

    2. Tier 2: Competencies report

    3. Tier 3: Individual Student Profile

    4. Progress Monitoring: Impact Report

    1. Using DESSA Data

    2. Data-Driven Recommendations

    3. DESSA Strategies and Interventions

    4. Put It Into Practice

    5. Action Plan Templates

    1. Resources

    2. Continue Your Learning

    3. Before You Go

About this full training course:

  • 22 lessons
  • 1 hour
  • Complete this training after collecting educator-completed DESSA ratings.