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Data: No Deus ex Machina
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Hess, Frederick M.; Mehta, Jal – Educational Leadership, 2013
Data-based decision making is all the rage. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2009) has emphatically declared, "I am a deep believer in the power of data to drive our decisions. Data gives us the roadmap to reform. It tells us where we are, where we need to go, and who is most at risk." In the past few years, all 50 states have adopted most or…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Decision Making, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Student Group Differences in Examination Results and Utilization for Policy and School Development
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Schildkamp, Kim; Rekers-Mombarg, Lyset T. M.; Harms, Truus J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
At the end of secondary education in The Netherlands, students have to pass a final examination, consisting of an internal school-based assessment and an external national assessment. According to the Dutch inspectorate, to ensure the quality of final examinations, the discrepancy between both assessments must be less than 0.5 points (on a scale…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap
Perceptions of School Principals about their Engagement in Evaluation on the Basis of Student Data.
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Glasman, Naftaly S. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1985
Elementary school principals rated attitudes and behaviors concerning the utilization of student achievement data: (1) commitment to influencing student achievement; (2) control in utilizing student achievement data; (3) use of data to evaluate programs and teachers; (4) effectiveness and accountability in use of data; and (5) principals' own…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility
Information Power: Use it or Loose it. Reflections on the Development and Use of a Statewide Assessment Information System.
Bigelow, Robert A. – 1986
The Delaware Educational Assessment Program publishes annual results from the California Test of Basic Skills by district, school, and grade (1 through 8 and 11). A statewide computer information system was developed to manage the testing program, the massive 10-year longitudinal database, and the information requests received. The Delaware…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Assessment