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Data Quality Campaign, 2018
2018 is the fifth year that state policymakers have taken concerted legislative action on education data use and privacy issues. Across the country this year, 42 states considered 300 bills and 25 states passed 59 new laws governing the collection, linking, use, access, and protection of education data. With the passage of the Every Student…
Descriptors: Privacy, State Legislation, Student Records, Confidentiality
Data Quality Campaign, 2015
The foundational federal law on student privacy, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), establishes student privacy rights by restricting with whom and under what circumstances schools may share students' personally identifiable information. This tool summarizes some of the main provisions of FERPA, and identifies when students'…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Privacy, Parent Rights, Student Records
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Vorstenbosch, Marc A. T. M.; Kooloos, Jan G. M.; Bolhuis, Sanneke M.; Laan, Roland F. J. M. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Because of a decrease of the time available for anatomy education, decisions need to be made to reduce the relevant content of the anatomy curriculum. Several expert consensus initiatives resulted in lists of structures, lacking analysis of anatomical competence. This study aims to explore the use of anatomical knowledge by medical doctors in an…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Competence, Physicians, Medical Evaluation
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Shum, Brenda – State Education Standard, 2016
Data plays a starring role in promoting educational equity, and data-driven decision making begins with good state policies. With the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and a proposed federal rule to address racial disproportionality in special education, states will shoulder increased responsibility for eliminating…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Data, Information Utilization, Educational Improvement
Rankin, Jenny Grant – Online Submission, 2016
Even before Florence Nightingale diagrammed soldiers' changing mortality rates to save lives, we have seen clever design used to convey statistics and other complex concepts. In the field of education, student data is used extensively, and those who share such data need to ensure this communication is effective. This article is based on education…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Educational Research, Best Practices, Student Records
Data Quality Campaign, 2016
All students deserve a great education, one that affords them every opportunity to grow into knowledgeable and successful adults. To make this vision a reality, students, parents, educators, and policymakers must have access to the right information to make decisions and support student learning. The Data Quality Campaign's Four Policy Priorities…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Information Utilization, Access to Information, Alignment (Education)
Swing, Randy L. – Association for Institutional Research, 2016
The need for data-informed decisions is not limited to national policy, state systems, or senior leadership of postsecondary institutions. Decisions that impact the achievement of higher education missions are also made by students, faculty, frontline staff, and program administrators--all of who deserve data and information to support their…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Information Utilization, Higher Education, Data Collection
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Hsiao, E-Ling; Huang, Xiaoxia – Journal of Educators Online, 2019
This article discusses the strategies to support Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) using a wiki site in online courses and examines student perceptions of the helpfulness of the wiki site and the applied PKM-related strategies. Fifty-seven students in six online class sessions completed a 25-item perception survey. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Electronic Publishing, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
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Maldonado, Edgar; Seehusen, Vicky – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The authors used a clustering technique to analyze business course choices made by students who completed an individualized degree in a large, urban, public university. They looked for patterns to answer the research question, "What can we learn from students' choices to inform the curricular redesign process in business programs?" The…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Curriculum Development, Cluster Grouping, Course Selection (Students)
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Reidenberg, Joel R.; Schaub, Florian – Theory and Research in Education, 2018
Education, Big Data, and student privacy are a combustible mix. The improvement of education and the protection of student privacy are key societal values. Big Data and Learning Analytics offer the promise of unlocking insights to improving education through large-scale empirical analysis of data generated from student information and student…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Security, Student Records, Privacy
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Moyne, Martina M.; Herman, Maxwell; Gajos, Krzysztof Z.; Walsh, Conor J.; Holland, Donal P. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
This article describes the development of the Design Evaluation and Feedback Tool (DEFT), a custom-built web-based system that collects and reports data to support teaching, learning, and research in project-based engineering design education. The DEFT system collects data through short weekly questionnaires for students and instructors in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Active Learning, Student Projects
Grunow, Alicia; Hough, Heather J. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
Creating continuously improving education systems could be the antidote to one-off education reforms that come and go with little to show for the effort. What distinguishes continuous improvement from other reform strategies is its focus on the underlying architecture of the system that is producing undesirable outcomes (e.g., low graduation…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Educational Improvement, Problem Solving, Educational Quality
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2018
Throughout history, a disproportionate number of learners have been tracked into terminal vocational programs based on their race, income, gender and disability, leading to jobs with uncertain promise of economic growth and prosperity. While the quality of Career Technical Education (CTE) programs has significantly improved since then, many…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Secondary Education
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Wilkerson, Stephanie B.; Johnson, Margie – Learning Professional, 2017
For many districts, evaluation is an afterthought to implementing a new initiative. Educators participate in professional learning experiences, apply what they learn to their practice, and then, at some point, school and district staff begin wondering if the initiative is making a difference. Then they scramble for nuggets of data that provide any…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Information Utilization, Evidence Based Practice, Faculty Development
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Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to store and analyze data, so have the world's governments…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data, Information Utilization, Management Information Systems
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