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Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Supporting teachers' use of data has become a large part of educational leaders' instructional leadership. Drawing on sensemaking theory, we explore how features of data and teachers' perceptions of them may matter when teachers consider student learning data. Design: The article draws on a 1-year, comparative case study of five…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Low Income Groups
Calvert, Jennifer Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2011
While strong evidence exists that the use of data in decision-making is critical for quality improvement and effective student outcomes at the university, institutions of higher education are not using the data from assessments to inform their decision-making processes. The disconnect between what current research describes as the effective use of…
Descriptors: Universities, Organizational Change, Focus Groups, Evaluation Utilization
Lange, Tracey M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The role of data analysis in the jobs of instructional leaders has become as commonplace as teachers creating lesson plans and taking roll in the classroom. Teachers and building leaders routinely use interim assessment data to develop thoughtful and robust instructional plans that address identified areas of student need. The link between the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Benchmarking, Feedback (Response), Instructional Innovation
Faria, Ann-Marie; Heppen, Jessica; Li, Yibing; Stachel, Suzanne; Jones, Wehmah; Sawyer, Katherine; Thomsen, Kerri; Kutner, Melissa; Miser, David; Lewis, Sharon; Casserly, Michael; Simon, Candace; Uzzell, Renata; Corcoran, Amanda; Palacios, Moses – Council of the Great City Schools, 2012
In recent years, interest has spiked in data-driven decision making in education--that is, using various types of student data to inform decisions in schools and classrooms. In October 2008, the Council of the Great City Schools and American Institutes for Research (AIR) launched a project funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that focused…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evidence, Decision Making, Principals
Nelson, Meta; Eddy, Rebecca M. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2008
This case study of one middle school focuses on improving teachers' skills in data-driven decision making through analysis of student work and their own professional practice. The expectation that schools will make adequate yearly progress has pushed evaluation practice down to the teacher level, where teachers are asked to analyze and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Standardized Tests, Evaluative Thinking
Mc Iver, Martha Abele; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth – Educational Research Service, 2008
This resource examines the role of the central office in improving instruction and therefore improving student achievement. Mac Iver and Farley-Ripple provide a comprehensive review of the available research (since the 1970s) on the role of the central office in student achievement. First, they review the research chronologically, and then by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Central Office Administrators, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement

Owen, John M. – Evaluation Practice, 1991
Four forms of evaluation are outlined: (1) evaluation and development; (2) design evaluation; (3) process evaluation; and (4) summative evaluation. Each form is understood through five dimensions (orientation, state, focus, timing, and approach), which are illustrated through evaluation of a community services training program in Australia. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Services, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods

Malen, Betty; And Others – Theory into Practice, 1988
This article uses a specific program evaluation (assessment of the Utah ladder reform report) to explore the role of evaluation information on the legislative decision-making process. Features of the report, responses to it, and its effects on Utah politics are described. Findings are broadly interpreted, and implications are discussed. (JL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education

Fitzpatrick, Jody L. – Evaluation Review, 1988
The evaluator's role in planning/implementing an evaluation of a new program to train school administrators in performance appraisal skills is described. This case study of the evaluators' broadening roles uses E. Chelimsky's continuum (1987) to analyze political processes and decision making involved in the evaluation of a state-funded program.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Case Studies, Decision Making, Evaluation Utilization
Stevens, Floraline; Burns, Marilyn – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1983
This report describes how one of our nation's largest urban school systems works through the complexities of diverse testing programs, testing schedules, and students to produce timely results that help students, parents, teachers, administrators, and policy makers to produce sound decisions about learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
Pugh, Wesley C. – 1990
An analysis of the process by which the results of research and evaluation studies are utilized in the formation of educational policy is the purpose of this paper. Based on a case study of a large urban public school's implementation of a dress code policy, four interrelated factors are identified that affect policy formation and data…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Dress Codes, Educational Policy

McLinden, Daniel J.; Jinkerson, Darryl L. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
Two case studies, a study of retention of health care personnel and a study of internal organizational communication, are presented that illustrate the application of multidimensional unfolding (MDU) and mapping to organizational concerns. This approach to multivariate analysis allows clients and stakeholders to picture the results of complex…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization

Carrigan, Sarah D.; Hackett, E. Raymond – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1998
Examined the usefulness of performance indicators in campus decision making at 20 institutions with Carnegie Baccalaureate II classification using hypothesis testing and case-study approaches. Performance measures most commonly cited as measures of financial viability were of limited use for specific policy development, but were most useful within…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Indicators
Glasman, Naftaly S. – 1994
This book shows how to use evaluation to find effective solutions. The first two chapters introduce evaluation as an administrative function at the school level. Chapter 1 draws on two kinds of literature--educational-administration literature (to survey administrative practices) and educational-evaluation literature (evaluation practiced by…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Case Studies, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
van Kesteren, Baukje J.; And Others – 1992
The selection of courseware is a difficult problem in the use of computers in education. A dissemination procedure for a courseware selection instrument involving workshops for computer coordinators is described. Computer coordinators of 267 Dutch secondary schools were asked how they used certain sources of information in selecting courseware.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software Selection
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