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Data Analysis for School Improvement.

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Lashway, Larry – Research Roundup, 2002

This "Research Roundup" focuses on how schools can benefit when educational leaders use data to challenge their intuition and assumptions in their decision-making. In "Building an Automated Student Record System: A Step-by-Step Guide for Local and State Education Agencies," Barbara S. Clements provides administrators with a quick but comprehensive…

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Educational Administration

Reasoning in Evaluation: Inferential Links and Leaps.

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Fournier, Deborah M., Ed. – New Directions for Evaluation, 1995

The seven chapters of this special issue explore problems in how to better understand the reasoning process that is used to establish evaluative conclusions. The many unanswered questions about reasoning should stimulate further investigation of the meaning of sound evaluative reasoning. (SLD)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods