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Cormack, Andrew; Reeve, David – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
With student and staff wellbeing a growing concern, several authors have asked whether existing data might help institutions provide better support. By analogy with the established field of Learning Analytics, this might involve identifying causes of stress, improving access to information for those who need it, suggesting options, providing rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Data Use, Ethics
Michael Klein; Zac Chase, Contributor – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2023
This is the third in a series of five briefs published by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology on the key considerations facing educational leaders as they work to build and sustain core digital infrastructure for learning. These briefs offer recommendations to complement the fundamental infrastructure considerations…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Privacy
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Blackmon, Stephanie J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Student privacy is a critical area of higher education that deserves greater focus, particularly as student data digitalization increases. Many colleges and universities use data literacy as a way to prepare students, sometimes from different disciplines, to work with others' data postgraduation. Data literacy can be an avenue for helping all…
Descriptors: Privacy, Data Collection, Data Use, Higher Education
Casey Gogno; Scott Burden; Wyntre Stout – Association for Institutional Research, 2024
Creating a welcoming community is key for an academic environment to thrive. This approach includes accurately representing community members' identities to understand their experiences, and establishing procedures for recording and utilizing individuals' names to support their ability to express their identities freely and without fear of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Storage, Student Characteristics, Identification
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Paige Kowalski – State Education Standard, 2024
Everyone who uses student information has a responsibility to maintain students' privacy and the security of their data. Ensuring student data privacy is about so much more than complying with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). While privacy must be top of mind when thinking about collecting and using personally identifiable…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, State Agencies, Public Education, Privacy
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Hillman, Velislava – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
The need for a comprehensive education data governance -- the regulation of who collects what data, how it is used and why -- continues to grow. Technologically, data can be collected by third parties, rendering schools unable to control their use. Legal frameworks partially achieve data governance as businesses continue to exploit existing…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Governance, Data Use, Laws
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Brown, Michael; Klein, Carrie – About Campus, 2023
The American College Personnel Association recognized the increased prominence of digital technologies in student affairs work, developing a technology competency area that includes foundational, intermediate, and advanced objectives for data use. However, as the role of technology use in student affairs practice rapidly changes, it is…
Descriptors: Data Use, Social Justice, Equal Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Kitto, Kirsty; Knight, Simon – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Artificial intelligence and data analysis (AIDA) are increasingly entering the field of education. Within this context, the subfield of learning analytics (LA) has, since its inception, had a strong emphasis upon ethics, with numerous checklists and frameworks proposed to ensure that student privacy is respected and potential harms avoided. Here,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis
Hoffman, Nancy; O'Connor, Anna; Mawhinney, Joanna – Jobs for the Future, 2022
The purpose of this brief is to provide school-level examples of how early college practitioners are collecting and using data to improve their practices. Examples three and four are school-level data from two early college partnerships: the MetroWest CPC (Framingham, Milford, Waltham), and Lawrence. The brief begins, however, with the national…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, High Schools, Universities
von Zastrow, Claus; Perez, Zeke, Jr. – Education Commission of the States, 2022
Data systems are becoming powerful tools to address students' diverse and changing needs, but without comprehensive data privacy policies, the risks of unintentional or malicious disclosures of students' private information is increasing. Given the mounting challenges to protect data privacy, Education Commission of the States assembled data…
Descriptors: Data Use, Privacy, Information Management, Access to Information
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Gasevic, Dragan; Tsai, Yi-Shan; Dawson, Shane; Pardo, Abelardo – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2019
Purpose: The analysis of data collected from user interactions with educational and information technology has attracted much attention as a promising approach to advancing our understanding of the learning process. This promise motivated the emergence of the field of learning analytics and supported the education sector in moving toward…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Integration, Foreign Countries
Education Trust-West, 2019
With Governor Newsom's signature on the state budget in June 2019, California is finally on the path to joining the majority of other states in the country who have robust data systems. Having this administration provide funding to begin to build and maintain a statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS) is an important win. Advocates have been…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Data Collection, Equal Education, Family Involvement
Data Quality Campaign, 2020
Over the past several years, policymakers across the country have enacted and updated policies designed to address safe data use in modern and evolving classrooms; now, changes in teaching practice are happening on an unprecedented scale and pace following the rapid transition to online learning. States will need to move quickly to provide student…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Educational Policy, Privacy, Student Records
Hunt Institute, 2022
From Fall 2019 through Spring 2020, The Hunt Institute released a series of policy briefs, "Attainment for All: Postsecondary Pathways," that highlighted scalable state-level strategies to boost postsecondary attainment rates among specific student subpopulations including high school graduates, first-generation students, and adult…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education, Equal Education, Access to Education
Isaac, James; Velez, Erin; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2023
Students, families, colleges, and lawmakers need clearer information on postsecondary outcomes to make informed decisions. By leveraging data available at institutions and federal agencies, a nationwide student-level data network (SLDN) would close information gaps that persist in our higher education landscape to answer critical questions about…
Descriptors: College Students, Data, Information Networks, Program Design
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