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Callingham, Rosemary – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Explains how rubrics can be used to assess children's understanding of chance and data concepts. Encounters unexpected results besides assessing chance and data outcomes. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Shellard, Elizabeth – 2002
in this era of standards, high-stakes testing, and accountability, school leaders need to know how they can increase the achievement of their students. Researchers have found that high-achieving schools show common, key factors, including challenging learning experiences for all students, a principal who fulfills his/her role as the instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrator Role, Data Analysis
Neuroth, Joann; And Others – 1992
Most administrators agree that school improvement and change are needed. Disagreement among administrators arises over how the improvements should be made. Total Quality Management (TQM) is a powerful tool in bringing about change and should be considered as an effective alternative in improvement efforts. The TQM approach is designed to address…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Levesque, Karen; Bradby, Denise; Rossi, Kristi; Teitelbaum, Peter – 1998
This book discusses how to use everyday data to create strategies for educational improvement in schools. It provides users with a process for building a performance indicator system, identifying the most important aspects of a school's innovational efforts and traps to avoid that may lead to misinterpretation of data. The introduction identifies…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Holcomb, Edie L. – Corwin Press, 2004
This book builds upon the best-selling first edition to provide additional guidance and support for educators who are "ready, willing, and able" to explore more sophisticated uses of data. New tools and activities facilitate active engagement with data and a collaborative culture of collective responsibility for the learning of all…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Motivation, Group Activities, School Effectiveness
Campbell, Patricia B. – 1986
This brochure highlights the role of the school counselor in using educational research, and emphasizes the relationship between bias (racism and sexism) and past and present research. The tests counselors use, the ways test results are interpreted, and counseling techniques are all based on educational research. Counselors are cautioned to…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Educational Research

Wilson, Michael – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Summarizes data extracted from a national survey of Canadian provinces concerning educational policy towards arts education. Discovers greater centralized control in the more populous provinces with the remote areas ceding authority to local boards. Different provinces appear to conceive of the arts in significantly different ways. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Art Education, Community Control, Data Collection
Sacramento City Unified School District, CA. – 1986
This report analyzes surveys and studies using a management information system developed in 1985-86 by the Sacramento (California) school district. Objectives were to facilitate policy decisions and to provide a database for assessment of student achievement, district progress, and the district's long-range plan. The report is presented in nine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board of Education Policy, Data Interpretation, Decision Making