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Best, Katharina Ley; Pane, John F. – RAND Corporation, 2018
The expansion of education technology is transforming the learning environment in classrooms, schools, school systems, online, and at home. The rise of education technology brings with it an increased opportunity for the collection and application of data, which are valuable resources for educators, schools, policymakers, researchers, and software…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Privacy, Information Storage
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Reidenberg, Joel R.; Schaub, Florian – Theory and Research in Education, 2018
Education, Big Data, and student privacy are a combustible mix. The improvement of education and the protection of student privacy are key societal values. Big Data and Learning Analytics offer the promise of unlocking insights to improving education through large-scale empirical analysis of data generated from student information and student…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Security, Student Records, Privacy
Sabourin, Jennifer; Kosturko, Lucy; FitzGerald, Clare; McQuiggan, Scott – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
While the field of educational data mining (EDM) has generated many innovations for improving educational software and student learning, the mining of student data has recently come under a great deal of scrutiny. Many stakeholder groups, including public officials, media outlets, and parents, have voiced concern over the privacy of student data…
Descriptors: Privacy, Student Records, Data Processing, Data Collection
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Pullin, Diana – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Recent efforts to change the teaching profession and teacher preparation include a number of innovations to use portfolio assessment, value added measures (VAM), accountability metrics and other corporate education reform ideas. These approaches may provoke considerable potential legal consequences. Traditional constitutional and civil rights…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Teacher Evaluation, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change
Data Quality Campaign, 2011
This letter is submitted to comment on the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) proposed revisions to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's (ARRA) State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF), as published in the September 23, 2011, Federal Register. Overall, the Data Quality Campaign believes the proposed changes strike a sensible balance: they…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Federal Aid, Accountability, Educational Finance
Achieve, Inc., 2007
This survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work, and finds that at least 48 states are now actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind. There is more momentum in the states now than at any time since…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, Accountability, Educational Change, High School Students