Abstract:
The Learning Model Assessment Project (LAMP) is the capstone project for the Ball State
Teachers College. It is a two-week unit plan that focuses not only on quality instruction and best
practices by the teacher candidate but also the use of data to guide and track instruction. Teacher
candidates must collect data from a pre-test to inform instruction and to compare with the
success of the unit via data from a post-test. The project is an introduction to data-driven
instruction, something that is prevalent and valuable in education not only as it relates to
standardized testing, but to the daily use by teachers in their own classrooms. This thesis
discusses the theoretical foundations and practical uses of data in schools and the classroom and
contains my personal LAMP project, which presents a unit on the past tenses in a Spanish II
class with accompanying data analysis and reflection.
