Data-based Decision Making in Education: Challenges and Opportunities

✍ Scribed by Kim Schildkamp, Mei Kuin Lai (auth.), Kim Schildkamp, Mei Kuin Lai, Lorna Earl (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Series: Studies in Educational Leadership 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important. This book brings together scholars from several countries to examine data-based decision making. Data-based decision making in this book refers to making decisions based on a broad range of evidence, such as scores on students’ assessments, classroom observations etc.

This book supports policy-makers, people working with schools, researchers and school leaders and teachers in the use of data, by bringing together the current research conducted on data use across multiple countries into a single volume. Some of these studies are ‘best practice’ studies, where effective data use has led to improvements in student learning. Others provide insight into challenges in both policy and practice environments. Each of them draws on research and literature in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Data-based Decision Making: An Overview....Pages 9-21
Analysis and Discussion of Classroom and Achievement Data to Raise Student Achievement....Pages 23-47
From “Intuition”- to “Data”-based Decision Making in Dutch Secondary Schools?....Pages 49-67
Professional Attitudes to the Use of Data in England....Pages 69-89
Approaches to Effective Data Use: Does One Size Fit All?....Pages 91-112
Improving Data Literacy in Schools: Lessons from the School Feedback Project....Pages 113-134
Implementation of a Data Initiative in the NCLB Era....Pages 135-153
Towards Data-Informed Decisions: From Ministry Policy to School Practice....Pages 155-175
Conclusions and a Data Use Framework....Pages 177-191
Data Use: Where to from Here?....Pages 193-204
Back Matter....Pages 198-198

✦ Subjects

International and Comparative Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Teaching and Teacher Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Learning & Instruction