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Download full textData Quality Campaign, 2014
Data are more than just test scores, and by effectively accessing and using different types of data--such as attendance, grades, and course-taking--teachers, parents, and school and district leaders can help ensure that every student is on a path for success every day, not just at the end of the school year. The 10 State Actions to Ensure…
Descriptors: Data, Data Collection, Information Utilization, Educational Policy
Wayman, Jeffrey C.; Cho, Vincent; Jimerson, Jo Beth; Spikes, Daniel D. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
In the present study, an examination is conducted in three school districts of how data are used to improve classroom practice. In doing so, we explore the effects that attitudes toward data, principal leadership, and computer data systems have on how data are used to affect classroom practice. Findings indicate that educators are ambivalent about…
Descriptors: Leadership, Data Collection, Evaluation Utilization, Information Utilization
Direct linkParveva, Teodora; Motiejunaite, Akvile; Noorani, Sogol; Riihelainen, Jari – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2016
This Eurydice report contains more than 30 detailed structural indicators, up-to-date figures, definitions, country notes and a short analysis of recent key policy developments and reforms in five areas: early childhood education and care, achievement in basic skills, early leaving from education and training, higher education and graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Educational Indicators, Early Childhood Education
Data Quality Campaign, 2011
America can no longer afford an education system that fails to use data effectively to guide decisionmaking. The education sector is facing ever-increasing demands to improve student outcomes, reduce burden, increase efficiency, and improve transparency. These demands cannot be met without the strategic and effective use of data. Due to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Data
Caffray, Christine M.; Chatterji, Pinka – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2009
This manuscript describes the development and testing of an Internet-based cost survey that was designed by the authors for the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) to capture the costs of school-based health programs. The intent of the survey was twofold. First, the survey was designed to collect comprehensive data on costs in a…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Internet, Program Costs, School Health Services
Hills, Fred W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Online education is the fastest growing form of course delivery of higher education in the United States. It has revolutionized how students and instructors interact in the educational process. Yet students in online courses continue to experience higher attrition rates than their counterparts in traditional face-to-face classes despite the…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Persistence, Online Courses
Peer reviewedStonehill, Robert M.; Groves, Curtis L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1983
U.S. Department of Education (ED) activities relating to the utility of Title I evaluations are discussed within the context of an overview of the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System (TIERS) and a history of Title I evaluations. Implications for Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981 are considered. (LC)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Boe, Erling E. – 1996
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Teacher Followup Survey (TFS) have been administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1987-88, 1990-92, and 1993-95. The SASS is a large-scale survey of educational institutions in the United States. The TFS is conducted the year following the SASS to obtain more information…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
Peng, Samuel S.; Herriot, Roger A. – 1993
In response to the legislative mandate and the increasing need for timely and high-quality data by policymakers at various levels, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has initiated a number of actions, programs, and surveys to improve the amount and quality of education information. To improve the relevance of data, the NCES has…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Hume, Jerry – 1992
This memorandum presents the report and recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Ad Hoc Committee was created by the National Assessment Governing Board in 1992 to prepare recommendations on non-mandated subjects to be assessed by the NAEP and to prepare a discussion paper…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advisory Committees, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet, which was produced as a follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, examines monitoring adult learning for knowledge-based policymaking. The following are among the topics discussed in the booklet: (1) the need to reconstruct the reality of adult learning in consideration of the concepts of lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Research and Evaluation Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1991
State activities to collect information on program outcomes for students enrolled in postsecondary vocational education were examined in spring 1990. A multistage process, beginning with a review of state reports and legislation, was followed by telephone interviews with state officials. The average number of respondents per state was five.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Research and Evaluation Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1991
This report presents the detailed results of the compilation of an overview of state activities related to measuring the outcomes of postsecondary vocational education. Chapter I provides background to the study. Chapter II describes the methodology used for the development of the overview, including discussions with experts, the information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
