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State Longitudinal Data Systems: Worth the Legislative Investment to Connect Workforce and Education
Anne Wicks; Amanda Wirtz – George W. Bush Institute, 2024
Determining whether a state's young people are on track for a life of opportunity is a difficult task for governors and state leaders. States can be both awash in data and unable to easily access and use that data to inform policy. State longitudinal data systems that meaningfully connect workforce, higher education, K-12, and early childhood…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Data Analysis, Learning Analytics, Information Systems
Hartong, Sigrid – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
The past few decades have witnessed a global enforcement of "governance by data" in education policy, including a significant increase of assessments and quantified evaluation. Within this context, this article focuses particularly on the intensifying evolvement of new (digital) information technologies and "mediated"…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Management Information Systems, Information Utilization
Rankin, Jenny Grant – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Most data-informed decision-making in education is undermined by flawed interpretations. Educator-driven interventions to improve data use are beneficial but not omnipotent, as data misunderstandings persist at schools and school districts commended for ideal data use support. Meanwhile, most data systems and reports display figures without…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Data Interpretation, Information Utilization, Standards
Data Quality Campaign, 2014
District superintendents or school principals need to be able to access and use high-quality data to make good decisions. Often this data is collected and stored locally, but information that is publicly reported by the state can provide additional value. Although public reporting in a few states is designed to serve information needs, states'…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Principals, Decision Making, Empowerment
Matsudaira, Jordan – Urban Institute, 2017
The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Programs, Government Role, Educational Improvement
Iyengar, Radhika; Mahal, Angelique R.; Felicia, Ukaegbu-Nnamchi Ifeyinwa; Aliyu, Balaraba; Karim, Alia – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
This article discusses the implementation of local level education data-driven planning as implemented by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals (OSSAP-MDGs) in partnership with The Earth Institute, Columbia University. It focuses on the design and implementation of the…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Program Design, Program Implementation, Management Information Systems
Sparks, Betsy H. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Business Intelligence is a major expenditure in many organizations and necessary for competitive advantage. These expenditures do not result in maximum benefits for the organization if the information obtained from the Business Intelligence System (BIS) is not used in the management decision-making process. This quantitative research study used an…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Decision Making, Information Utilization, Performance Factors
Maxwell, Nan L.; Rotz, Dana; Garcia, Christina – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
This study examines the perceptions of data-driven decision making (DDDM) activities and culture in organizations driven by a social mission. Analysis of survey information from multiple stakeholders in each of eight social enterprises highlights the wide divergence in views of DDDM. Within an organization, managerial and nonmanagerial staff…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture
Gagne, Jeff – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
For nearly a decade, the demand for better education data has reverberated across the nation, fueled in part by concerns that the information used in education decision-making is incomplete and, in some cases, inaccurate. In response, millions of federal and state dollars have been invested over the last few years to design and build state-of…
Descriptors: Data, Information Systems, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Education as a Data-Driven Enterprise: A Primer for Leaders in Business, Philanthropy, and Education
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011
With advances in research, technology, and assessments, and with a focused effort, the U.S. education system can lead the world in becoming a data-driven enterprise. This publication provides leaders from business, philanthropy, and education with background on data issues; describes challenges that must be overcome; and makes recommendations for…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies
Means, Barbara; Padilla, Christine; Gallagher, Larry – US Department of Education, 2010
Since 2006 the national Study of Education Data Systems and Decision Making, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Policy and Program Studies Service, has been examining both the implementation of student data systems per se and the broader set of practices involving the use of data to improve instruction, regardless of whether or not…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Information Systems, Program Implementation
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, Decision Making, Urban Schools, Instructional Improvement
10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems: Inaugural State Analysis
Early Childhood Data Collaborative (NJ1), 2011
State policymakers are increasingly focused on closing the achievement gap and preparing all students to succeed in school and life. However, college and career readiness begins long before students enter high school or even a classroom. Differences in children's abilities appear as early as the first year of life, and research has shown that…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, State Policy, State Standards, Early Childhood Education
Hanks, Jason Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate non-mandated data-driven decision making in private/religious schools. The school culture support of data use, teacher use of data, leader facilitation of using data, and the availability of data were investigated in three schools. A quantitative survey research design was used to explore the research…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data, School Culture, Private Schools
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