Data-Driven Decisionmaking
Education news, analysis, and opinion about how educators use data to identify and address areas of opportunity
School & District Management
Opinion
Data-Driven Decision Making Gone Wild: How Do We Know What Data to Trust to Inform Decision-Making?
skoolboy returns to weigh in on data-driven decision making:
School & District Management
Opinion
Data-Driven Decision Making Box Scores: Incentivists: 10, Instructionists: 1
In many ways, data-driven decision making (D3M) in education is an old idea packaged as a new one. As far back as anyone can remember, teachers have given their students regular quizzes, projects, and tests. When students performed poorly, "data-driven" teachers retaught the material or tried to figure out what went wrong. Without the benefit of spreadsheets or data displays, teachers have attempted to tailor their instruction to different groups of students. To be sure, there have been assumptions, blindspots, and kids overlooked, but the fundamental idea of teaching, assessing, figuring out what works for whom, and re-teaching is as old skool as Tupac.
School & District Management
Opinion
This week: Data-Driven Decision Making
Walk into any school's faculty meeting, and you'll think you've stumbled into a tongue twister competition. The push for data-driven decision making, DDDM, D3M - whatever you prefer to call it - is everywhere. This week I'll explore what data-driven decision making can and can't do for education and share some of the research on how data are currently used in schools.
School & District Management
Opinion
Cool People You Should Know: Kathryn Boudett
Spoiler alert: I'm going to write about data-driven decision making next week, so who better to profile than Kathryn Boudett, who teaches at the Harvard Grad School of Ed and is a co-author of the book Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning. Note that the book is about improving teaching and learning, not just test scores! And that's why I like it. Here is a little snippet about the book, which I will say more about next week, and the syllabus for her course.
Standards & Accountability
A Small Wonder
Delaware's early commitment to standards-based accountability may have helped push it from the low tier of states to well above the U.S. average on national tests in reading and mathematics.
School & District Management
Series
Research Into Practice
This four-part series examines the movement to make education research more "usable" and explores some efforts to connect the worlds of research and practice.
