Data-Driven Decision Making

This from Education Week's Spotlight on Data-Driven Decision Making:

Spotlight on Data-Driven Decision Making is a collection of articles hand-picked by ED Week editors including:

• Mining data to improve student learning
• Leveraging schools' investment in data systems
• Using data to predict which students are likely to dropout
• Managing student privacy
• Securing school data systems from crashes and failures
• Implementing student-data technology

You can get the nine articles in a downloadable PDF.

Schools Find Uses for Predictive Data Techniques

The statistical methods used to calculate credit scores and car-insurance premiums are now being used to predict which students are likely to drop out and which teacher candidates are good fits for jobs.

June 30, 2011 - Education Week

In Perspective

 

Leading the Charge for Real-Time Data

Long before it was on the national agenda, data was the name of the game in Western Heights, Okla.

June 3, 2009 - Education Week

 

Proposed Rules Guide States on Managing Student Privacy

Federal privacy rules likely to take effect this summer offer timely, first-time guidance for states and districts finishing up new longitudinal student-data systems this year.

April 29, 2011 | Updated: September 15, 2011 - Education Week

 

States Make Swift Progress on Student-Data Technology

What's needed now, the Data Quality Campaign says, is political momentum to ensure educators can start tracking data by fall.

February 22, 2011 - Education Week

 

Preventing District Data Crashes Requires Anticipation

The range and unpredictability of threats to school districts' data systems can be unnerving, making protecting them difficult.

February 4, 2011 - Digital Directions

 

'Data Mining' Gains Traction in Education

Researchers find that they can use Amazon.com-style techniques for analyzing customer behaviors to study—and improve—student learning.

December 13, 2010 - Education Week

Commentary

My Nine 'Truths' of Data Analysis

Data analysis has an important instructional role in the classroom, explains Ronald S. Thomas.

June 14, 2011 - Education Week

Commentary

Education as a Data-Driven Enterprise

Data's importance is a key topic as educators and other leaders consider how to raise high school graduation rates, AT&T Foundation President Laura Sanford writes.

March 21, 2011 - Education Week

Commentary

 

Data Rich But Information Poor

Leveraging schools' investment in data systems will require a parallel investment in strengthening the capacity to use data to improve teaching, William J. Slotnik and Martin Orland write.

May 6, 2010 - Education Week