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Tochukwu Okoye – Learning Professional, 2024
Data is ubiquitous and inseparable from the human experience. It constantly informs and transforms interactions, decisions, and understanding. If the total amount of all the data created daily was printed on paper, it would fill a library the size of 110 Libraries of Congress. As a senior research consultant for an education market research and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Data Use, Inclusion, Educational Improvement
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Brannegan, Andrew; Takahashi, Sola – Learning Professional, 2023
Educators have long been awash in a sea of standardized test score data, with the understanding that their engagement with these data will lead to improvement in teaching and learning. But, in practice, these data have often been too infrequent, too lagging, and too distant from day-to-day practice to inform actionable next steps. To improve…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Data Use, Educational Improvement, Data Analysis
Jessica Arnold; Julie Webb – WestEd, 2024
While there are many different types of education data, policymakers and education leaders often place heavy emphasis on data from large-scale quantitative measures, such as annual state assessments. But data from these sources alone do not provide a complete picture of learning and are often not well suited to informing improvements at the local…
Descriptors: Data Use, Measurement, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
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Thornton, Nia – Learning Professional, 2022
When Nia Thornton became an assistant principal at Central Gwinnett High School in Georgia, one of her responsibilities was to lead professional learning for the school staff. She and the school leadership team were excited engage the staff in meaningful, day-to-day learning. They knew that their work needed to be rooted in current research and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Environment, High Schools, Data Use
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Tom Manning – Learning Professional, 2024
The Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) has provided relevant, educator-level data helping systems of all kinds -- states, districts, schools, provinces, and organizations -- gather and track data about the professional learning their educators experience. An online, confidential, valid, and reliable instrument administered to school-based…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Faculty Development, Program Improvement, Measures (Individuals)
Mark A. Elgart – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Shifts in the education system to more student-centered learning will require state and local education agencies to rethink how they do their work. Current accountability systems focus on compliance with standards, as demonstrated in annual summative assessments. Mark Elgart explains that a new approach to accountability will offer more authentic…
Descriptors: School Districts, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Olson, Lynn – Learning Professional, 2023
Continuous improvement methods, widely used in fields such as medicine, can help educators identify and try out adjustments in practice, known as "change ideas," which contribute to better outcomes and more equitable systems for students. Since 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in 24 organizations across the…
Descriptors: Networks, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Burch, Patricia; Estrada-Miller, Jeimee – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2022
At a time when students of families living in poverty have experienced the worst of the economic trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, community schools have reemerged as a promising intervention for addressing lack of access to quality education and economic prosperity. Policymakers are making investments in scaling up community schools;…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Data Use, Educational Improvement, Access to Education
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Dear, Carley P.; Williams, Melissa A.; Bowlus, Angela M.; Bryan, Angela A.; Collins, Edward L.; Lin, Gregory; Moreno, Kirstin; Schnelle, Teri; Song, Xiaomei; Stanny, Claudia J.; Tucker, Constance R. – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2021
To produce actionable and accessible assessment findings that drive innovation and improvement, strategies should be implemented at the national and local level throughout each stage of the assessment process. Fostering these findings is the need to authentically engage stakeholders throughout the assessment process. Done well, the engagement of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Evaluation, Educational Strategies, Stakeholders
Ruedel, Kristin; Kuchle, Laura Berry; Bailey, Tessie – National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2021
Developing a solid foundational knowledge of data literacy is integral to building role-specific knowledge and building capacity of educators to use and apply these skills appropriately. However, the definition of data literacy is inconsistent and often too narrowly applied within the field of education. National experts and technical assistance…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Data, Capacity Building, Definitions
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Lisa Azure; Sheridan Mcneil; Leah Woodke; Monte Schaff – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2024
Enrollment of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in postsecondary education in the United States has been increasing over the past three decades (Chee, Shorty, and Robinson Kurpius 2019). The Tribal College Movement began more than 40 years ago with the establishment of the first tribally-controlled community college in 1968.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Minority Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Education, American Indians
Morris, Kelsey; Lewis, Timothy; Mitchell, Barb – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2022
This brief provides district PBIS [positive behavioral interventions and supports] leadership teams a framework to examine school-level fidelity and self-assessment data to guide resource, professional development, and technical assistance decision making.
Descriptors: School Districts, Data Use, Data Analysis, Fidelity
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Randy Weber – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2025
This guide describes how community college presidents can embed strategic enrollment management (SEM) into mission fulfillment. It emphasizes the importance of setting a vision, ensuring adequate resources, and fostering collaboration. By leveraging data-driven strategies and continuous improvement, colleges can enhance student recruitment,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning
Daugherty, Lindsay – Grantee Submission, 2020
"Stackable credential programs" are designed to make it easier for students to earn multiple postsecondary certificates or degrees in a field as they advance in their careers. To examine the stacking of credentials in Ohio and inform ongoing efforts to scale stackable credential programs, the Ohio Department of Higher Education and the…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Postsecondary Education, Credentials
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Nahar, Gul; Urick, Angela; Wescoup, Stephanie M.; Jang, Chang Sung; Cascio, Casey J.; Unsicker-Durham, Shelly K. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2022
Many school educators struggle to reconcile the onslaught of mandatory and competing, top-down policies. Educators must merge policies into a singular plan that reflects the local stakeholders' goals and values. Given the federal and state accountability movement, schools are forced to build capacity around the use of on-site data and research…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy
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