July 2018, Vol. 49, Issue 4
Using Data to Understand and Improve Students’ Learning: Empowering Teachers and Researchers Through Building and Using a Knowledge Base
Jinfa Cai, Anne Morris, Charles Hohensee, Stephen Hwang, Victoria Robison, and James Hiebert
This editorial discusses how data on students’ thinking and classroom experiences could be leveraged within a system to improve instructional practice, exploring how the knowledge base could serve as a tool to (a) gather, process, and analyze data from individual students; (b) increase understanding of the effects of students’ mathematical learning experiences; and (c) help teacher–researcher partnerships understand and improve students’ learning.