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Arantes, Janine Aldous – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2022
With the increasing presence of 'datafied' educational settings across Australia, critical components of teachers' educational practice and work have been quantified. Digital data collected through teachers' labour in and around the classroom links to educational practice and the commercial datafication of teachers' online persona. Often described…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data, Data Collection, Work Environment
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Smyk, Magdalena; Tyrowicz, Joanna; van der Velde, Lucas – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
We investigate the reliability of data from the Wage Indicator (WI), the largest online survey on earnings and working conditions. Comparing WI to nationally representative data sources for 17 countries reveals that participants of WI are not likely to have been representatively drawn from the respective populations. Previous literature has…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Data, Reliability, Wages
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Nazarov, Zafar E.; Erickson, William A.; Bruyère, Susanne M. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2014
Objective: It is useful to examine workplace factors influencing employment outcomes of individuals with disabilities and the interplay of disability, employment-related, and employer characteristics to inform rehabilitation practice. Design: A number of large national survey and administrative data sets provide information on employers and can…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Statistical Data, Employment Practices
Knoster, Kevin C. – North Central Comprehensive Center, 2016
The North Central Comprehensive Center team at McREL International conducted an analysis of current literature regarding student and teacher absenteeism to better conceptualize the problem and highlight successful steps that can be taken to address it. Drawing upon theoretically conceptualized and practically applied strategies for resolving…
Descriptors: Attendance, Teacher Attendance, Truancy, Change Strategies
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Datnow, Amanda; Park, Vicki; Kennedy-Lewis, Brianna – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2012
The expectation that teachers will use student achievement data to improve their instruction is a major feature of national and local reform agendas. The theory of action behind data-driven decision making is a mostly causal model of professional action, whereby teachers diagnose weaknesses and implement solutions. The purpose of this article is…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Educational Change, Data, Secondary School Teachers
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Spinuzzi, Clay – Written Communication, 2010
At a search marketing company, each search engine optimization (SEO) specialist writes up to 10 to 12 complex 20-page monthly reports in the first ten business days of each month. These SEO specialists do not consider themselves to be writers, yet they generate these structurally and rhetorically complex reports as a matter of course, while…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Work Environment, Competition, Search Engines