Twelve Danish municipalities, the Laboratory for Research-based School Development (LSP), Aalborg University, and the National Centre for Public Competence Development (COK), have designed a school development program with the title: Program for Evidence-Informed, Achievement-Oriented Development of Schools and Professional Competencies. The program includes a total of 217 primary and lower secondary schools, 74,000 students and 9,000 professionals (teachers, pedagogues, school leaders), which corresponds to approximately ten percent of all Danish primary and lower secondary schools and students. The program focuses on professional competence support and development of learning environments informed by research identification, mapping and analyses of student learning achievements based on data from all students, educational professionals and parents involved in the project. The basis for the program is a detailed mapping of students learning and development achievements; data from questionnaires to all students, parents, teachers, school leaders and provides student achievement profiles represented digitally in numerical and graphical formats for every municipality, school and all individual classes. In addition, quality reports will be elaborated for every municipality. Referring to these profiles and research reports, pedagogical initiatives and competence development programs for all professionals (teachers, pedagogues & school managers) will be defined and initiated. This implies designing tailor made training and development programs based on the potential and challenges of every individual school and class. The learning achievement profiles provide evidence about student learning to inform decisions about, and to design professional training programs. The program is based on similar, but smaller programs in Norway and Denmark. In the presentation results from these programs will be presented with a special focus on ways in which school development and teaching practices have been informed by research-based data-profiles and achievement evidence.

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