Data-driven Decisions and Student Achievement 1 Using Assessment Data to Guide School and Classroom Decision Making: An Examination of the Effects on Student Achievement Laura Lang Shana Goldwyn Christopher Schatschneider Alysia Roehrig-Bice Christine Johnson Florida State University Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Chicago, IL. April 2007 Portions of this research were funded by the Multi-University Reading, Mathematics and Science Initiative (MURMSI) from a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to the Learning Systems Institute, Office of the Provost, Florida State University (FY 04 award number U215K040242). Portions of this research were also funded by NCER grant number R305B04074.