This course is designed to provide candidates in the Curriculum and Instruction track with the theoretical and practical background knowledge and analytical skills necessary to make evidence-based decisions using classroom/program data sets. The goal is to learn how to see educational data analysis is a means by which student learning and professional teaching can be continuously and simultaneously analyzed and improved. This is especially important when considering appropriate differentiation strategies for students with a range of gifts, talents and challenges in their learning. Assessment choices and the collaboration/communication strategies to explain those choices to educational partnerships (administrators, parents, community members) will also be emphasized.