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Principals Using Data: An Integrative Review
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Timothy A. Drake – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
In this review, I examined the last two decades of research on data use in education to outline the ways in which principals used data to inform their own leadership practices. I found three themes: first, student achievement data were the most widespread form of data that principals used; second, principals' work has been reshaped by teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Use, Academic Achievement, Teacher Evaluation
When Data Teams Struggle: Learning from Less Successful Data Use Efforts
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Schildkamp, Kim; Datnow, Amanda – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
Because learning from failures is just as important as learning from successes, we used qualitative case study data gathered in the Netherlands and the United States to examine instances in which data teams struggle to contribute to school improvement. Similar factors in both the Dutch and U.S. case hindered the work of the data teams, such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Data Use, Failure
Teacher Evaluation through the Eyes of the Principal: How Individual and School Contexts Shape Perceptions of Practice
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Lavigne, Alyson L.; Olson, Amy M. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
The current study explores how principals (n = 568) experience a new teacher evaluation model under Race to the Top. Findings suggest that principals felt the least confident in their ability to identify teacher behaviors associated with student achievement gains and placed the least value on student achievement data. Evaluation experience…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Accountability