A Look into the Workings of Data Use in a Mid-Sized District
Leading Small and Mid-Sized Urban School Districts
ISBN: 978-1-78441-818-2, eISBN: 978-1-78441-817-5
Publication date: 2 April 2015
Abstract
The effective use of student data has gained increasing attention in the past 10 years. Although district leaders would like to support data use and improvement, exactly how to go about such work systemically is often unclear. Accordingly, the aim of this chapter is to illuminate the inner workings of data use throughout a mid-sized school district. In doing so, we highlight issues in how data were used and supported, and provide discussion about how districts such as this one may improve data use throughout the district.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
This study was funded by The Spencer Foundation. Accordingly, the authors would like to thank Andrea Bueschel and everyone at Spencer for making this possible. In addition, the authors would like to thank the hard-working educators in the Gibson school district for their participation in this study.
Citation
Wayman, J.C., Cho, V., Jimerson, J.B. and Snodgrass Rangel, V.W. (2015), "A Look into the Workings of Data Use in a Mid-Sized District", Leading Small and Mid-Sized Urban School Districts (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 241-275. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-366020150000022022
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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