Standard+4-+Documenting+and+Using+Results

= __**Standard 4: Documenting and Using Results**__  =

**results to improve student performance and school effectiveness.**
__**QUALITY SCHOOL SYSTEM INDICATORS**__ **In fulfillment of this standard, the system:**
 * **4.1 Establishes and implements a comprehensive assessment system, aligned with the system’s expectations for student learning,** **that yields information which is reliable, valid, and free of bias**
 * **4.2 Ensures that student assessment data are used to make decisions for continuous improvement of teaching and learning**
 * **4.3 Conducts a systematic analysis of instructional and organizational effectiveness, including support systems, and uses the** **results to improve student and system performance**
 * **4.4 Provides a system of communication which uses a variety of methods to report student performance and system effectiveness** **to all stakeholders**
 * **4.5 Uses comparison and trend data from comparable school systems to evaluate student performance and system effectiveness**
 * **4.6 Demonstrates verifiable growth in student performance that is supported by multiple sources of evidence**
 * **4.7 Maintains a secure, accurate, and complete student record system in accordance with state and federal regulations**

__ **IMPACT STATEMENT** __
 * A school system is successful in meeting this standard when it uses a comprehensive assessment system based on**
 * clearly-defined performance measures. The assessment system is used to assess student performance on expectations**
 * for student learning, identify gaps between expectations for student learning and student performance, evaluate**
 * the effectiveness of curriculum and instruction, and determine interventions to improve student performance. The**
 * assessment system yields timely and accurate information that is meaningful and useful to system and school leaders,**
 * teachers, and other stakeholders in understanding student performance, system and school effectiveness, and the**
 * results of improvement efforts**