LearningPulse

Student Work Analysis helps schools understand learning by examining the work students already produce, not just the scores they receive.

@MmeLockhartLDS @reading_league “Mirrors reflecting student learning” is exactly right. When data support inquiry instead of compliance, instruction improves. This is the premise behind how LearningPulse works with the student work teachers already collect.

Student work isn’t just evidence of learning. It’s evidence for learning, if you can see it clearly enough while teaching is still underway.

Most instructional insight arrives after the unit, after the test, or after grades are in. By then, the moment to adjust instruction has already passed.

When teachers look at student work to uncover student thinking, it tells the student - I care about your learning! #learnwithERG #formative #assessment

Schools collect enormous amounts of student work. What’s missing isn’t effort or intention. It’s visibility into what that work is actually showing while learning is happening.

If you could easily see patterns across student work during a unit, what decisions would you make differently?

We built LearningPulse because schools kept telling us: “We have the work. But not enough time to analyze it. We just can’t see patterns over time.”

That gap is where most instructional decisions actually live.

It struggles to answer: "What do students understand right now?"

Traditional assessment answers: "How did students perform at the end?"

When students and teachers capture learning as it happens—it is no longer an add-on reporting method after a performance task is completed. —Mike Rutherford @LearningPulse @GrowthOverTime growbeyondgrades.org/blog/capturing…

I need to empower students to be able to build, generate, and create as much as possible. @gotlearning @LearningPulse growbeyondgrades.org/blog/episode-4…

Most assessment data arrives after the moment it could have helped. Learning happens every day in student work.

@Catlin_Tucker This resonates. The real power of Tier 1 instruction is the student work it produces - drafts, explanations, attempts. Those artifacts tell us what students understand right now, not weeks later.

Tier 1 instruction isn’t just delivering content. It’s a chance to gather real-time insight into what students understand & what they need next. That's why I build quick formative assessment checks into every lesson. Learn more & get my strategies for effective Tier 2 instruction: bit.ly/4c7U01Z

@ajjuliani Love how this all connects. From McTighe and Brookhart’s learning cycle to Wiliam’s strategies to quick, defend-your-thinking moments - the throughline is evidence -> interpretation -> adjustment. Without the adjustment, it’s just activity, not assessment.

The Five Minute Formative Assessment. Simple, and powerful. Kids show and defend learning in five minutes or less.

@Mr_Rablin So true - oral assessment often shows what students really understand in ways tests don’t.

Oral assessment is such an important piece of an assessment system that is often overlooked. Here's how I used it in my classroom: edutopia.org/article/benefi…

@GaleBaileyES Such a great reminder that learning shows up in the work, not just the grade.

At Staff meeting today ,(LASW) Looking at Student Work with our 2nd Grade Team… 💚💛 🦁 #WhereWeROARForAcademicExcellence

@BPE_Broncos @FortBendISD Such a great reminder that learning shows up in the work, not just the grade.

Kinder teachers looking at student work samples, using data dig protocol and creating next steps for tier 1 reteach opportunities and intervention during PLT. @FortBendISD

@peterwardrip @StephDeLuca16 @AbDPittsburgh @Jeff_Evancho @remakelearning @greggbehr @UWMadEducation @AgencybyDesign @NorthgateProud @CVSDcolts @BeckyGrubbs7 Student work gives context that numbers alone can’t provide. Very cool to see this happening!

Thanks to @StephDeLuca16 & team for hosting @AbDPittsburgh today. So cool to learn about their partnerships and connection to community. Great to spend time looking at student work.