Journal of Professional Capital and Community: Volume 4 Issue 3

Data-based decision making in developing countries: balancing accountability measures and improvement efforts

Kim Schildkamp, Cindy L. Poortman, Pasi Sahlberg

Monitoring and data use in developing countries: Findings from a systematic literature review

David Eddy-Spicer, Melanie Ehren, Mukdarut Bangpan

The collection and dissemination of standardized performance information about students, teachers, schools and school systems offer potentially important tools for school…

Study on data use in Indonesian primary schools

Ikhsan Abdusyakur, Cindy Louise Poortman

Many studies have underlined data use for school improvement. However, these are mainly based on developed countries; studies on data use are still lacking on developing…

Data use in Kenyan secondary schools

Elisha Omoso, Kim Schildkamp, Jules Pieters

The purpose of this paper is to explore the data available and their use by Kenyan secondary school teachers and head teachers.

Data-based decision making in primary schools in Ethiopia

Ahmed Yibrie Ahmed

The Ethiopian educational system has witnessed considerable structural and curricular changes aimed to address access, equity and relevance. At the same time, there are serious…

Data-based decision making in developing countries: the influence of system and culture

Joke Voogt, Jules Pieters

This contribution to the special issue integrates findings addressed by the other papers. In order to structure the insights delivered by the studies and to address the…