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Data-based Decision Making in Education

Challenges and Opportunities

  • Unique in bringing perspectives on data-driven decision making from different parts of the world together
  • Leads to an increased knowledge on what data-based decision making in schools currently looks like, and what it should look like
  • Discusses enablers and barriers to effective data use, as well as provides insight into how a country’s policy can enable or promote effective data use

Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 17)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
  2. Introduction

    • Kim Schildkamp, Mei Kuin Lai
    Pages 1-7
  3. Data-based Decision Making: An Overview

    • Mei Kuin Lai, Kim Schildkamp
    Pages 9-21
  4. Professional Attitudes to the Use of Data in England

    • Christopher Downey, Anthony Kelly
    Pages 69-89
  5. Approaches to Effective Data Use: Does One Size Fit All?

    • Elizabeth Archer, Vanessa Scherman, Sarah Howie
    Pages 91-112
  6. Improving Data Literacy in Schools: Lessons from the School Feedback Project

    • Jan Vanhoof, Goedele Verhaeghe, Peter Van Petegem, Martin Valcke
    Pages 113-134
  7. Implementation of a Data Initiative in the NCLB Era

    • Jeffrey C. Wayman, Daniel D. Spikes, Michael R. Volonnino
    Pages 135-153
  8. Towards Data-Informed Decisions: From Ministry Policy to School Practice

    • Robert Dunn, Sonia Ben Jaafar, Lorna Earl, Steven Katz
    Pages 155-175
  9. Conclusions and a Data Use Framework

    • Kim Schildkamp, Mei Kuin Lai
    Pages 177-191
  10. Data Use: Where to from Here?

    • Lorna Earl, Karen Seashore Louis
    Pages 193-204
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 198-198

About this book

In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important. This book brings together scholars from several countries to examine data-based decision making. Data-based decision making in this book refers to making decisions based on a broad range of evidence, such as scores on students’ assessments, classroom observations etc.

This book supports policy-makers, people working with schools, researchers and school leaders and teachers in the use of data, by bringing together the current research conducted on data use across multiple countries into a single volume. Some of these studies are ‘best practice’ studies, where effective data use has led to improvements in student learning. Others provide insight into challenges in both policy and practice environments. Each of them draws on research and literature in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Curriculum Design & Educational Innovati, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

    Kim Schildkamp

  • School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Mei Kuin Lai

  • Aporia Consulting Ltd., Toronto, Canada

    Lorna Earl

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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