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Direct linkPangrazio, Luci; Selwyn, Neil; Cumbo, Bronwyn – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
This paper explores the significance of schools' data infrastructures as a site of institutional power and (re)configuration. Using 'infrastructure studies' as a theoretical framework and drawing on in-depth studies of three contrasting Australian secondary schools, the paper takes a holistic look at schools' data infrastructures. In contrast to…
Descriptors: Data Use, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Management
Selwyn, Neil – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Schools now face considerable pressure to be using educational data to inform decision-making and become more efficient. Key to this rise of the 'data-driven' school is the increased use of digital technologies -- with computer-based data processing fuelling hopes for the technology-driven 'smart schooling' and a general 'datafication' of…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Selwyn, Neil; Pangrazio, Luci; Cumbo, Bronwyn – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This paper considers the subjectivation of students in light of the increasing amounts of digital data that are now being produced within schools. Taking a lead from critical data studies and the sociology of numbers, the paper draws on staff interviews in three Australian secondary schools to explore the various types of student data being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Data, Secondary Schools
Pangrazio, Luci; Selwyn, Neil; Cumbo, Bronwyn – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
The use of digital technologies within schools is leading to the increased generation, processing and circulation of data relating to students. To date, academic research around this 'datafication' of schools and schooling has tended to focus on institutional issues of governance and commercialisation, with relatively little consideration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Use, Secondary School Students, Technology Uses in Education
Selwyn, Neil – Educational Review, 2023
This article examines digital data use within three Australian secondary schools, drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 school staff to explore tensions between: (i) established logics of "data-driven" schooling; and (ii) emerging "datafied" practices associated with digital systems, platforms and devices. Using sociological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Data Use
Selwyn, Neil; Pangrazio, Luci; Cumbo, Bronwyn – Research in Education, 2021
Contemporary schooling is seen to be altering significantly in light of a combined 'digitisation' and 'datafication' of key processes. This paper examines the nature and conditions of the datafied school by exploring how a relatively prosaic and longstanding school metric (student attendance data) is being produced and used in digital form.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Use, Attendance, School Personnel
