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Tomlinson, Carol Ann – Educational Leadership, 2015
This article describes a language arts teacher's two-tiered way of using assessment data, which uses both standardized assessment data and teacher-created "skills" inventories. Standardized test data may help see where a learner performed in a previous year on items that often do not line up too well with future content. Standardized…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Skill Analysis, Data Analysis, Progress Monitoring
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Hubers, Mireille D.; Moolenaar, Nienke M.; Schildkamp, Kim; Daly, Alan J.; Handelzalts, Adam; Pieters, Jules M. – Research Papers in Education, 2018
The data team intervention was designed to support Dutch secondary schools in using data while developing a solution to an educational problem. A data team can build school-wide capacity for data use through knowledge sharing among data team members, and knowledge brokerage between the team and other colleagues. The goal of this mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Communities of Practice, Data Analysis
Datnow, Amanda; Park, Vicki – Educational Leadership, 2015
School leaders are often drowning in data but are unsure which forms of data will help them create a portrait of student achievement that will motivate staff to look beyond simple trends and delve deeper into root causes. Teachers often wish for more guidance on the kinds of data analysis and teaching strategies that will help them move the needle…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Data, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
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Nicholson, Julie; Capitelli, Sarah; Richert, Anna E.; Wilson, Carrie; Bove, Claire – New Educator, 2017
We examine how teacher leaders (TLs), working in a low-income urban elementary school, supported their colleagues to learn how to collect quality formative data and to discuss it in collaborative conversations in order to make their students' learning visible. The TLs faced challenges reflecting consequences resulting from the district's high…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Urban Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Low Income Students
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Dunlap, Karen; Piro, Jody S. – Cogent Education, 2016
Educators by definition are now required to utilize a variety of student data to shape the decisions they make and design the lessons they teach. As accountability standards become more stringent and as teachers face increasingly diverse student populations within their classrooms, they often struggle to adequately meet the needs of all learners.…
Descriptors: Data, Information Literacy, Teaching Skills, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Hollands, Fiona M.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Shand, Robert; Pan, Yilin; Cheng, Henan; Levin, Henry M. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
We review the value of cost-effectiveness analysis for evaluation and decision making with respect to educational programs and discuss its application to early reading interventions. We describe the conditions for a rigorous cost-effectiveness analysis and illustrate the challenges of applying the method in practice, providing examples of programs…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
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Buller, Ryan F. – Journal of Access Services, 2014
Generating, collecting, and analyzing building usage statistics can greatly increase the ability of an access services unit to meet the changing dynamic of patron needs in an academic library. By analyzing three different data points, the Access Services Unit in Malpass Library at Western Illinois University was able to determine the most…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Library Research, Student Employment
Chenoweth, Karin – Educational Leadership, 2015
The key practices that improve struggling schools, writes Chenoweth--a researcher who's studied successful high-poverty schools and their leaders--aren't a mystery. From both decades of research and the craft knowledge of educators who've jumped in and turned around schools, we know these practices generally yield improvement: (1) a…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Best Practices, Effective Schools Research, School Turnaround
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Palmer, Stuart – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is now commonplace in many universities internationally. While much effort has been devoted to examining the statistical validity of SET instruments, there has been limited examination of the methodological and consequential validity (together referred to as "utility") of the ways in which SET data…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Validity, Evaluation Utilization, Data
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Militello, Matthew; Militello, Luke – Educational Forum, 2013
Recent educational accountability efforts have married student assessments with reform mandates and sanctions. As a result, students--beginning in early elementary grades--are feeling the pressures of this new era of high-stakes accountability. This article chronicles a story of the consequences of high-stakes testing on a father and his son.…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment
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Vanover, Charles; Hodges, Olivia – School Leadership & Management, 2015
This case study uses evidence collected for accreditation and programme improvement at a small university Master's and certification programme in Educational Leadership Development to describe efforts to help leadership candidates use data during the programme's final internship experience. Programme features supporting the growth of candidates'…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Internship Programs, Program Improvement
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Wayman, Jeffrey C.; Jimerson, Jo Beth; Cho, Vincent – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
In the United States, effective data use is proving to be a vexing problem. In response, scholars have recently begun viewing this as a systemic problem, believing there are actions a school district may take to make data use more efficient and tenable throughout the organization. In this article, we add to the knowledge of how school…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Educational Research
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Chenail, Ronald J. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2010
The question of generalizability or the usefulness of qualitative research results beyond the confines of the primary site, sample, and study has been hotly debated by qualitative researchers for decades. When examining this question of generalization the first surprising finding is there appears to be no general consensus about the definition,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Researchers, Generalization, Research Utilization
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Horn, Ilana Seidel; Kane, Britnie Delinger; Wilson, Jonee – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
In the accountability era, educators are pressed to use evidence-based practice. In this comparative case study, we examine the learning opportunities afforded by teachers' data use conversations. Using situated discourse analysis, we compare two middle school mathematics teacher workgroups interpreting data from the same district assessment.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evidence, Case Studies, Discourse Analysis
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Bergman, Barbara – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Teachers in the Federal Way (Wash.) Public Schools had no shortage of student data. Standardized test scores, unit tests, and report card grades were as familiar to educators as reading, writing, and arithmetic. With the onset of statewide testing in the 1990s, data analysis was expanded to cover a multitude of state learning goals in grades 4, 7,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Utilization
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