Data-based Decision Making in Education Challenges and Opportunities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schildkamp, Kim. (Editor), Lai, Mei Kuin. (Editor), Earl, Lorna. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Educational Leadership ; 17
• Subjects: Education.; Educational tests and measurements.; International and Comparative Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Learning & Instruction.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4816-3

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Data-based Decision Making: an overview
• 3. Analysis and Discussion of Classroom and Achievement Data to Raise Student Achievement
• 4. From Intuition - to Data -Driven Decision Making in Dutch Secondary Schools?
• 5. Professional Attitudes to the Use of Data in England
• 6. Approaches to Effective Data Use: Does One Size Fit All?
• 7. Improving Data Literacy in Schools: Lessons from the School Feedback Project
• 8. Implementation of a Data Initiative in the NCLB era
• 9. Towards Data-informed Decisions: from ministry policy to school practice
• 10. Conclusions and a Data Use Framework
• 11. Data Use: Where to from here?
• Index.