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Schools are now driven by data...but not all data is good data. This post looks at 10 ways the data by be problematic. It is not suggesting that you dismiss "data as a valuable teaching too, but understanding its limits in pursuit of better assessment design and data extraction practices, especially in the form of data-friendly curriculum and instrutional design."

A list of 10 ways data "can sabatoge your teaching" is provided with explanations. The list includes:

* The assessments are "bad"

* Assessment is infrequent

* Depth of Knowledge isn't factored

* Inflexible curriculum that resists data "absorption"

For more information click through to the article.