ERIC Number: EJ1373108
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 17
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Preferences, Substitutes, and Complements: Mapping the Relationship between Data Sources within Teachers' Instructional Practice
Educational Assessment, v27 n4 p322-338 2022
The extent to which teachers collect, interpret, and use information from multiple data sources is a key distinction between novice and expert data users. Understanding and exploring this dimension of teachers' instructional decision making requires a shift in contemporary perspectives toward the interconnectedness of data sources within teachers' practice of data use. In the present study, I develop and apply a conceptual framework for mapping the structure of connections between data sources within and across instructional practices. Findings indicate teachers typically use two to six data sources in the context of a given instructional practice, with considerable variation in the relationship between those data sources across instructional practices. Toward this end, the present study advances a typology for classifying teachers' preference for, substitution between, and complementary use of data sources. Findings have implications for preservice teacher preparation, in-service teacher professional learning, and research perspectives on data use in education.
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Information Utilization, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Information Sources, Preferences, Data Use, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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