Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
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Data Systems
Use of Education Data at the Local Level: From Accountability to Instructional Improvement
The U.S. Department of Education recently published the results of a study examining the characteristics of data systems and their use at the classroom level. More specifically, it looked at what types of student data systems were available to school staff, how school staff were using the systems and other forms of student data, teachers' understanding of data displays and data interpretation issues, and the supports and challenges for school-level use of student data in planning and implementing instruction.
2009–10 DQC Annual Survey Results
The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) released its first report on the 10 state actions to ensure the effective use of longitudinal data, including details on how states are changing policies and practices to promote linkages across systems, ensuring appropriate access to new data and analysis, and strengthening stakeholder capacity to use this information.
Data Driven Decision Making: Developing Data Facilitators
The Oregon Department of Education is working towards building the capacity of educational leaders to support schools and districts in using data to inform decision making. To support this goal, ODE, NWRCC, and TERC collaborated on a seminar designed to prepare data facilitators.
New Tools to Make Benchmark Analysis Free and Painless
Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making
The What Works Clearinghouse at the U.S. Department of Education has released a guide offering five recommendations to help educators effectively use data to monitor students’ academic progress and evaluate instructional practices. The guide recommends that schools set a clear vision for schoolwide data use, develop a data-driven culture, and make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement. The guide also recommends teaching students how to use their own data to set learning goals.
Characteristics of Successful Districts
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (2006). Madison, WI: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
The rubrics contained in Characteristics of Successful Districts are a part of a larger guide to help Wisconsin districts build on their unique strengths. Further, these rubrics are tools for school districts to gain a fuller understanding of their needs.
Title I Accountability and School Improvement From 2001 to 2004
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, Policy and Program Studies Service. (2006). Washington, D.C.
Issues in Designing State Accountability Systems
Harbin, G., Rous, B., & McLean. M. (2004). Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center.
The purpose of this working document is to provide a resource for state policy makers and researchers who are interested in collaboratively designing and implementing rigorous and systematic accountability models that yield accurate data. (abstract from author)
